D&D 5E Playing the Game vs. Reading the Rules of the Game

[Mistwell]

What is your point here? Not following

He's making an unprovoked passive aggressive bash on 4th edition as an attack of opportuity. Pretty sure that was his point.

 

[Jacob Marley]

He's making an unprovoked passive aggressive bash on 4th edition as an attack of opportuity. Pretty sure that was his point.

Yeah, he probably was taking a shot at 4th Edition. However, removing the specific example and his point still stands. We have limited resources and virtually unlimited ways to spend those resources. I know I don't have the time to sit down and analyze every purchasing decision I make. Sometimes I have to just go with my gut.

 

[Ahnehnois]

What is your point here? Not following

I'm suggesting that if you have good reason to believe you won't like something, "giving it a try" is not necessarily worthwhile.

 

[Savage Wombat]

I'd just like to point out that a really good GM can make any system fun to play. This does not tell me whether the system itself is better than a competing system, especially if I have specific issues.

 

[Mistwell]

I'm suggesting that if you have good reason to believe you won't like something, "giving it a try" is not necessarily worthwhile.

Isn't this the logic all kids use to not try new foods?

Trying new things, even if you're worried you won't like them, is a pretty important element of living a full life, in my opinion.

You should give D&D Next a try. Finding a game, on Roll20 or at a game store or convention or whatever, is pretty easy to do. And it's free. The only risk is a relatively short period of time - less time than you spend daily on message boards I suspect. Your worst case scenario is you won't like it and it will add a new sense of credibility to your positions here on the board, as you will be speaking from experience rather than just theory. Seems well worth the risk of a few hours time.

 

[Weather Report]

I feel you have to have played/DMed an edition to comment on it with any sort of gravity.

 

[Ahnehnois]

Isn't this the logic all kids use to not try new foods?

Yes. Not infrequently a wise decision. I owe my livelihood in no small part to my unwillingness to partake in some of the unhealthy eating practices that were pushed on me (and on pretty much everyone in Western culture) in my youth. Children can be picky, but their natural instincts are to eat nutritional things and avoid toxic things, which is good.

Trying new things, even if you're worried you won't like them, is a pretty important element of living a full life, in my opinion.

True, but so is trying the right things. It's not like it's a choice between running 5e and sitting on my hands waiting for life to happen! In context, it's a choice between trying 5e and trying some other things. Life is too short to waste it on mediocrity.

You should give D&D Next a try. Finding a game, on Roll20 or at a game store or convention or whatever, is pretty easy to do. And it's free. The only risk is a relatively short period of time - less time than you spend daily on message boards I suspect. Your worst case scenario is you won't like it and it will add a new sense of credibility to your positions here on the board, as you will be speaking from experience rather than just theory. Seems well worth the risk of a few hours time.

I will, over the next two weeks, work on a manuscript, train in scientific reviewing techniques, tutor science students, attend professional meetings, supervise contractors working on my building, welcome in new tenants, escort out old tenants, listen to a half dozen or more new music albums,tour a new city, write a motherload of NPCs for my next game, attend at least two lectures in medicine and ethics, attend and volunteer at a major weeklong medical conference, hike along the river, work out, read a book, cook something original, buy as much ice cream as possible from my soon-to-be closed neighborhood spot, write some posts on ENWorld, gather professional recommendations for medical school, and, hopefully, run the most horrific game of CoC I have ever done.

I can guarantee I won't be trying 5e. I don't have time for a half-baked rpg that doesn't really appeal to me. Somehow I think my time will be better spent elsewhere. I doubt the following two weeks will be all that much different.

 

[the Jester]

I've dmed a fair number of sessions- probably at least ten split between various packets- and I am really liking what I've seen so far. So, likely for me.

 

[Weather Report]

I will, over the next two weeks, work on a manuscript, train in scientific reviewing techniques, tutor science students, attend professional meetings, supervise contractors working on my building, welcome in new tenants, escort out old tenants, listen to a half dozen or more new music albums,tour a new city, write a motherload of NPCs for my next game, attend at least two lectures in medicine and ethics, attend and volunteer at a major weeklong medical conference, hike along the river, work out, read a book, cook something original, buy as much ice cream as possible from my soon-to-be closed neighborhood spot, write some posts on ENWorld, gather professional recommendations for medical school, and, hopefully, run the most horrific game of CoC I have ever done.

There really was no need for that.

 

[Ahnehnois]

There really was no need for that.

It seems like someone needs to explain the "life's too short to try everything" angle because it's not sinking in.