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<blockquote data-quote="Derren" data-source="post: 5935608" data-attributes="member: 2518">And that is the reason I wrote &quot;again&quot; in the title.To be honest, I am not the target group of WotC. At the end of my D&amp;D time 3E became too combat focused for me and 4E only got worse. Skill challenges were a interesting idea, but we all know that they didn't really work and also provided a &quot;one size fits all&quot; mechanic for everything non combat related in a system where combat is pretty much hardwired into and takes up &gt;95% of the space.My interest in 5E is more for nostalgic reasons and I am fully aware that it is unlikely that D&amp;D would shift its focus in the direction my interests have wandered nor that the player base even wants that (most discussions and questions about 5E are about combat so thats apparently what interests the players).Still, personally I think that the focus on combat is a dead end. Computers can do combat, tactical or h&amp;s, just fine and are getting better and better at the social component. What computers can't do very well is the non combat stuff which is less strictly regulated as they can't react to the crazy ideas the players have.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Derren, post: 5935608, member: 2518"] And that is the reason I wrote "again" in the title. To be honest, I am not the target group of WotC. At the end of my D&D time 3E became too combat focused for me and 4E only got worse. Skill challenges were a interesting idea, but we all know that they didn't really work and also provided a "one size fits all" mechanic for everything non combat related in a system where combat is pretty much hardwired into and takes up >95% of the space. My interest in 5E is more for nostalgic reasons and I am fully aware that it is unlikely that D&D would shift its focus in the direction my interests have wandered nor that the player base even wants that (most discussions and questions about 5E are about combat so thats apparently what interests the players). Still, personally I think that the focus on combat is a dead end. Computers can do combat, tactical or h&s, just fine and are getting better and better at the social component. What computers can't do very well is the non combat stuff which is less strictly regulated as they can't react to the crazy ideas the players have. [/QUOTE]

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