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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8896490" data-attributes="member: 6988941">I'm heavily invested in 5e and enjoy it so I'll keep playing it (as long as there are people to play with) until some other game wins me over. Since I think all of this will lead to a bumper crop of games made to cater to displaced 5e fans it does seem more likely that such a game will come along now than it did before. I was already basically done buying products for the edition so my 5e buying is largely unaffected, but I probably would have picked up a few of the books I still don't have heavily discounted on Amazon next Black Friday, and now I probably won't.Previously I was pretty contemptuous of what I saw coming out for 5.5, but worried that some combination of social pressure and wanting to stick with the zeitgeist would make me grudgingly accept New Coke 5e despite my reservations. Now I no longer worry about that. I'll probably get a PHB for it and play in a campaign of it out of curiosity's sake, heck if the DMG or Monster Manual for it really are intercompatible with 5e I might get them too if I hear they are better (really not hard to achieve, the 5e ones feel underbaked and designed for a system people didn't really understand yet). I guess if I were to be playing 5e with a 5.5 Monster Manual I would sort of be playing 5.5. But the chances of my purchasing most of the books for 5.5, and all sorts of other official merch, the way I have for 5e are basically nil.It's possible that some future iteration of D&D will win me back properly, but I would be surprised, and for it to happen while Hasbro owns the brand would have to involve just a miraculously amazing perfect edition.</blockquote>

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