D&D 5E So, what are your plans now?

[Jeff Carlsen]

I hope the starter set will include a DM screen. I'd be more likely to buy it.

That would be a great value addition, though I doubt it will happen. Still, it isn't impossible.

I'm imaging the starter kit being the basic game, including character generation, but with preselected options for each class and race, and enough monster support for perhaps five levels of play.

It will likely have adventure material, dice, tokens, and maps. I could see a flimsy DM Screen in there as well.

What I think will make it shine is the likelyhood that each of the core three books will be usable with the starter box without the other two, each adding to the game in a different way.

 

[DMZ2112]

All of the above!

 

[Giltonio_Santos]

All of the above!

Lucky you!

 

[pickin_grinnin]

I voted "other." I didn't bother with the playtest stuff at all. I'll wait until the full game is released, skim-read it in Barnes and Noble, and then decide if I'm going to use it at all. It's going to need to be very impressive and very different from 4e for me to bother with it.

 

[Argyle King]

I plan to pick up some of the products (I like a few of the adventures) and use them with a different rpg.

 

[JeffB]

After a year or so of..ehh...hurry up and wait, I am getting excited to see 5e. I will pick up the starter box for sure, and hopefully it is a solid attempt ala the basic sets of old.

That said, we are just 2 sessions in to The Dragon's Demand, set in the OGB Realms using 13th Age , and its already been super fun. I do not know if we will be able to complete it by the 5e Starter release date.

 

[oxybe]

When it comes to 5th ed, the last I saw/read was the last public playtest and I personally wasn't impressed. I do, however, hope for the best and am willing to try out the system when it comes out, but until then I fully expect a game I don't care for.

Either way though, I probably won't be playing it anymore then I'm playing Shadowrun, World of Darkness or any other TTRPG that isn't called pathfinder, regardless of it's quality (barring such an explosion of popularity I can't even fathom).

I live in a pathfinder town. It's the sad truth, but when deciding what to play everyone always seems to return to 3rd ed or it's offspring regardless of how interested some of us are in other systems/settings because it's (3rd/PF) the ruleset most people have most easy access to, are familiar with(yet always seem to forget a rule here and there ) and passing one book between 6 players and a GM is rather inefficient.

 

[Stormonu]

Don't know if I count as I've been playing non-D&D games for over half a year now. I intend to look at the final rules when the 3 core books come out, but the playtest rules didn't grab me.

If I go back to D&D, at this time it looks like it will either be B(ECMI), 2E or Pathfinder. 5E's not in the running at the moment. I've got enough versions as it is.