D&D 5E (2024) Rate D&D 2024

[Zardnaar]

So do I, but since I am not a player in a 2024 game I can't really judge it from that perspective beyond knowing that there are some changes my players like and some they despise.

The MM is more of the same from Mordenkainens. I expected more -- significantly more. The MM preview videos promised improvements on the order of A5E and ToV. The MM is in fact what convinced me to buy the 2024 books and run it.

What a disappointment.

Im finding the new critters potent vs 2014.

Updates to existing monsters is minimal.

 

[Zardnaar]

Then at most you could say I enjoy it or not. You couldn’t determine the difference in a 6 and a 10 without making other comparisons.

I use my beer scale and tweak it for movies, D&D.

10. Greatest thing ever (almost never for me 9.5 is usually highest 9 go).
9. Excellent
8. Very good
7. Good
6. Average
5. Below average/mid
4. Force myself to drink it.
4. Give up 3/4th
3. Give up halfway
2. Give up around 25%
1. 1-2 mouthful awful.

 

[kermit4karate]

I voted 8.

The highlights for me are the better organisation overall, most of the changes in the classes, the monster manual (almost all of it; these monsters are simply better for me, less complicated to run, less complicated to choose, better as threats, more diverse; simply better) , the new encounter guidelines, the simpler framing of it all, with warts and all (like the blanket DC15 difficulty for everything, I quite like that).

The downsides are some small details like innate sorcery or aura of authority, the feats becoming core (though it's less grating than previously envisioned, you can just have an origin feat which are less annoying than the others, flavorful even, and you can't optimize both attributes and feats, you have to choose; choice is good).

I still like 2014 though (it's the same game, really, and it's my favorite edition), and I will gladly play in a 2014 campaign. But for me, the transition was seamless and quite positive. No turning back in sight.

I also gave it an 8 and pretty much echo
your thoughts verbatim!

 

[kermit4karate]

Well, I did. I am a simple guy with many kids and many things to do, I play a lot of different games with a lot of different people of all ages, I just want something that works out of the box. I'm not particularly interested in the delicate intricacies of system mastery and DnD monsters are already on the very high end of the complexity spectrum I'm willing to deal with. Having to peruse a 20+ list of spells to decide what this guy'll do, picking levels even, tracking effing slots, devising a complex tactic is too much, and I'm very glad the devs took this on them. I'd rather allocating all this time and energy to all the other stuff that's going on at the table.

OK, have to ask... You're a simple guy with many kids? How many is many??

I completely agree about liking the streamlining and simplifying. (I also have kids...just not many.)

 

[cbwjm]

I use my beer scale and tweak it for movies, D&D.

10. Greatest thing ever (almost never for me 9.5 is usually highest 9 go).
9. Excellent
8. Very good
7. Good
6. Average
5. Below average/mid
4. Force myself to drink it.
4. Give up 3/4th
3. Give up halfway
2. Give up around 25%
1. 1-2 mouthful awful.

I've had a few beers that would rate 4 or below on your scale, mostly sours, can't stomach them.

 

[Zardnaar]

I've had a few beers that would rate 4 or below on your scale, mostly sours, can't stomach them.

Not to many for me. Speights, Steinlager, some Norwegian one.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

At least as of when I started writing this, the mean review is 6.42, while the median is 7. (I have ignored the seven votes that were "no opinion" for these statistics.)

Rather tepid response, all things considered.

 

[Zardnaar]

At least as of when I started writing this, the mean review is 6.42, while the median is 7. (I have ignored the seven votes that were "no opinion" for these statistics.)

Rather tepid response, all things considered.

Sample size is to small. Half dozen of the usual suspects can sink the rating.

 

[Scribe]

At least as of when I started writing this, the mean review is 6.42, while the median is 7. (I have ignored the seven votes that were "no opinion" for these statistics.)

Rather tepid response, all things considered.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Very middling product that both couldn't do enough, while also making changes to be even less appealing nearly across the board for me.

Been interesting watching the D&D section shrink at the local bookstore from the peak around pre Radient or so.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

Sample size is to small. Half dozen of the usual suspects can sink the rating.

Or raise it.

In any case this sort of rating will always call loudest to those who want to evangelize and those who want to complain. And yet most the proponents know it isn't a perfect ten, and even most of us detractors recognize and admit it could have been worse, so it's going to land somewhere in the middle.

Thus ENWorld issues forth it's mighty pronouncement of "Meh. It's fine." Let it ring forth through the ages.

But, as of writing, the mode is a respectable 8. So congratulations to the supporters I guess.