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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 9525620" data-attributes="member: 6785785">When 5e first came out in 2014, I looked at it as a breath of fresh air. I had become pretty dissatisfied with our games, and 5e was enough of a change to improve things a bit. But it was pretty temporary. And I realized that's because we were mostly playing Pathfinder. So 5e was good for me when compared to Pathfinder. But it wasn't long before some of the same issues came up. Which is why I started actively looking at other games beyond the D&D sphere, especially based on input from folks here who had advice and suggestions about other games. That really helped me examine my games and the reasons I was at times dissatisfied with them. So after all this time, I don't dislike 5e... I'll happily play in a game if one of my friends is running it. I'm not too keen on running it again. I do plan on doing so to wrap up the campaign we started... but other than that, it's not something that excites me very much. I think the idea of this being a range is interesting. I don't know if I agree or not. It's possible... but when I look at games, I generally find that they tend to promote a primary playstyle. By playstyle here, I'm thinking more the experience of play. What is produced by following the rules and processes of play. Right... but I would think that most of us can agree that to achieve any of those playstyles, there needs to be rules and processes in place to promote them. Can there be one system that potentially delivers all those playstyles in an effective way? I'm not at all sure of that. Certainly, some of them are pretty much at odds with one another. This is why I don't know if we can separate mechanics and playstyle in the way suggested in the OP. Because I think the absence of mechanics in a given sphere... that leads to another play style which is essentially shared storytelling at best, or GM as storyteller at worst.</blockquote>

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