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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Emerikol" data-source="post: 6322903" data-attributes="member: 6698278">I will be the first to admit my mistake if I have erred in judging 5e.  I'm only saying that right now based on what Mike Mearls has said I'm not buying.  I will likely look the game over when it comes out especially the free rules.  I mean what is the risk in that.   I am kind of shocked at the tact they've taken with 5e but it is their game.  I do think though that a person like me really needs to support those companies that are trying to support my playstyle.  If I just jump on the D&D bandwagon and houserule it a bunch just to get it to work for me, I'm basically saying I shouldn't ever expect actual rules written to include me.   I feel I have to vote with my wallet especially with D&D which is the market leader.  I also have to keep D&D's competitors alive because they might be my only source of material soon.I was talking back and forth with someone on the Wotc forums and they were certain right up till the day that the basic pdf would provide support.  She has the opposite opinion on a ton of things from me and it wasn't even her concern.  She knew though that a lot of people cared about what I cared about.  That was her feeling anyway.  So we were back and forth about when it would show up.  None of use even dreamed that the DMG wouldn't handle what we wanted.  I think it would be funny if a third party developed a game that was nothing but a PHB.  It would be essentially 5e but rewritten to address all the old school concerns.  It would be totally compatible with the DMG and the MM.   It's probably theoretically possible given the OGL but no one will do it.  If I was a billionaire I'd do it just for kicks.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />.</blockquote>

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