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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 8736116" data-attributes="member: 86653"><p>Funnily enough, that's also part of the dying breed. Since around 3E there's been a huge uptick in the amount of people who seem to think it's RAW, RAW, and only RAW...nothing but RAW...and all of RAW, thank you. The amount of people willing to simply ignore things in the books is diminishing. Freely house ruling things is diminishing. Players are more resistant to house rules than they've ever been before. All my experience of course.</p><p></p><p>This is partially true, partially false. My players are telling me what they want me to run. I'm telling my players what I'm willing to run. If those things don't mesh, there's no game. If I want to run an obscure or unpopular game, I'm not going to get to. Simple as. The overwhelmingly vast majority of 5E players will migrate to the 2024 revisions. And unless players and referees want to be left behind, they have to keep up. Even with the internet and online gaming, getting a group to play an older edition is harder than finding a group of the current edition. Peer pressure does exist in the hobby. We really should stop pretending it doesn't.</p><p></p><p>No, it's not the end of the (real) world. But it's certainly going to be the end of some groups...and the fictional worlds they create through gaming together. Some will adopt the new stuff, others will refuse. Those people aren't always at different tables. Even back when 2E came out this happened. Some people really wanted 2E, others held onto their AD&D books and refused to budge. So our group split. Luckily it was only two people who left but the main core remained. Point being, some worlds will end because of this. People are expressing that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 8736116, member: 86653"] Funnily enough, that's also part of the dying breed. Since around 3E there's been a huge uptick in the amount of people who seem to think it's RAW, RAW, and only RAW...nothing but RAW...and all of RAW, thank you. The amount of people willing to simply ignore things in the books is diminishing. Freely house ruling things is diminishing. Players are more resistant to house rules than they've ever been before. All my experience of course. This is partially true, partially false. My players are telling me what they want me to run. I'm telling my players what I'm willing to run. If those things don't mesh, there's no game. If I want to run an obscure or unpopular game, I'm not going to get to. Simple as. The overwhelmingly vast majority of 5E players will migrate to the 2024 revisions. And unless players and referees want to be left behind, they have to keep up. Even with the internet and online gaming, getting a group to play an older edition is harder than finding a group of the current edition. Peer pressure does exist in the hobby. We really should stop pretending it doesn't. No, it's not the end of the (real) world. But it's certainly going to be the end of some groups...and the fictional worlds they create through gaming together. Some will adopt the new stuff, others will refuse. Those people aren't always at different tables. Even back when 2E came out this happened. Some people really wanted 2E, others held onto their AD&D books and refused to budge. So our group split. Luckily it was only two people who left but the main core remained. Point being, some worlds will end because of this. People are expressing that. [/QUOTE]
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