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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ccooke" data-source="post: 6211463" data-attributes="member: 6695890">I'm currently in two groups, in two different cities (I never really planned to get into actually playing rpgs until I was persuaded to just try a one-off character when I was visiting friends a couple of hours train ride away. So I've been travelling up there every six weeks or so for the last eight years or so).The first group came together to play 3.0e - we use a couple of bits and pieces from 3.5, but not much. That had a long campaign (about five years, with a 10ish hour session every 5-6 weeks). Since that campaign finished, three of the five remaining players had ideas to GM, so we've been alternating. Two of them ran 3.0 games, while I ran a 4e game. That was supposed to be a one-off to try out the system, but the group liked the game I ran (although most of them are firmly in the "4e is not my d&d" category) so it continued.I since started GMing a game in my own city, with a load of players who hadn't played any tabletop rpgs before (although several of them were veteran LARPers and CRPG players). That game was 4e as well, and the group were happy with the system.I've run quite a number of 5e playtests in the last year or so - maybe 15 or so. Never actually played it yet, but then I've never played 4e and I've been running it for some years now <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=":-)" />Both of the 4e games are going to convert to 5e at the next reasonable opportunity. The 3.0 group in Manchester were never very happy with 4e as a system and hugely preferred 5e (they're talking about using it for new campaigns, which was never considered with 4e). The other group were happy to change after a few playtests and though they like 4e, the ability to choose how complex you want your character in 5e suits the group a lot more.I've been doing some test conversions from 4e to 5e with a couple of people in the group (We're probably not actually going to switch until next year some time, but working out how hard it is will be useful, because I'm going to help about nine people convert their character in the next few months). So far it's been pretty good, and the players have been really happy with the new versions, at least on paper. Haven't actually played them yet, obviously.</blockquote>

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