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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cybit" data-source="post: 6318093" data-attributes="member: 66111">I think the good news is that post DMG, you'll be able to have that game.  I think the bad news is that won't be the "base" game, because the "base" game is something that is much less pushed as the "right way" compared to previous editions.  That's part of the modularity that they've been trying to push, that, hey, rather than us (WotC) trying to dictate what playstyle is best, we're going to create options that allow people to customize the game to those playstyles by full ruleset or even by individual characters, and we're going to explain what those tradeoffs are, and educate people.  For those who are new to the genre, WOTC has picked elements of all editions of D&D and sort of combined them into what WOTC believes is a good newbie system, and hopefully these new players will get into the system, and then they'll start figuring out what they like, and then move forward.  Personally, even as an experienced D&D player, I really like (overall) their more "base" system than I did PF/4E, but that's just me.  (Still play PFS about once a week, maybe twice, but rocking 3 weekly 5E groups)Part of WotC's strategy has to take into account what brand new players are going to want in a game; rather than those of us who already play the game.  In the Anecdata realm, two of the three groups I play with have new to D&D players; one being a group of kids, the other being fellow coworkers.  They really seem to like the blend of editions (although none of them know it is a blend of editions) approach.  The kids also like being able to play as the Predator and as a Titan from Titanfall along side their friends who are rocking more traditional classes.    <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  But in doing so, that "catch-all" game is going to have elements from all editions; so there are going to be things we really like and things we dislike.  Just my two cents.</blockquote>

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