The "Smell Test"

[Keldryn]

Yes. The play test feels much like a modern take on Basic/Expert D&D, which is awesome.

I agree that the feel is something intangible. 4e in play never really captured the feel for me. 3e did at first, until character builds seemed to dominate discussions of the game.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

This poll should be multiple choice.

Yes. I identify with multiple editions. Nothing smells rotten thus far, though this piece of the game did just come out of the oven.

 

[I'm A Banana]

I wasn't quite sure what to assign myself as (started with 2e, played 'em all, a little rough with 4e), but I picked 3e, and I do find it "feels like" D&D to me. A little more like 2e than 3e, but that's not a bad thing, necessarily.

 

[Agamon]

I wasn't quite sure what to assign myself as (started with 2e, played 'em all, a little rough with 4e), but I picked 3e, and I do find it "feels like" D&D to me. A little more like 2e than 3e, but that's not a bad thing, necessarily.

You and me both. Not sure what I identify with. Pretty sure it's not 3e or 4e, probably BECMI if I had to choose, but it smells like D&D from my reading (I voted neutrally, though, as I haven't had a chance to playtest yet).

 

[soulcatcher78]

1/2E for the most part and so far it smells just fine. Some of the newer mechanics are holding up well so far with play and I'm interested in seeing just how modular it will be in the end.

 

[Charleois]

Interesting results so far. Everyone pre-4e is generally happy. Everyone 4e is generally sad. I guess that sort of aligns with Wizards' goal, but I'm imagining they'll try and rope the 4e crowd in more deliberately with the subsequent play test releases.

I love the Fourth Edition and I am far from excited or pleased by the Playtest stuff.

The monster stat blocks are far less convenient than those of the Fourth. The spell descriptions are far less easy to use than those of the Fourth. The Fighter has no Exploits. The first of those three complaints are probably not going to go away even with subsequent modules of rules.

 

[Andor]

Very interesting results. So far the 4e players seem to be abotu 2/3rds negative with everyone else being overwhelmingly positive.

That's good, but it's not great if they want 4e players too, and they do.

OTOH if Charleois is voiceing the thoughts of the 4e crowd and it's really only a formatting issue, then I think they have a potential winner. I would hhave preferred better spell blocks myself, and I think we will see them.

 

[AeroDm]

Very interesting results. So far the 4e players seem to be abotu 2/3rds negative with everyone else being overwhelmingly positive.

That's good, but it's not great if they want 4e players too, and they do.

OTOH if Charleois is voiceing the thoughts of the 4e crowd and it's really only a formatting issue, then I think they have a potential winner. I would hhave preferred better spell blocks myself, and I think we will see them.

Yeah, they can't afford to lose 4e because they won't rope back in all of Pathfinder. For 5e to succeed they need to carry most of 4e forward, capture back grognards/Pathfinder, and still have enough flash to draw in new players and grow the base. It is going to be a tall order.

 

[Obryn]

It feels like D&D, sure. So has every edition so far.

I still don't see a reason to play it instead of 4e or 1e, myself - my two favorite editions.

-O

 

[howandwhy99]

I voted it smells good.

The thing is though, with so many stinking fish available in this fish market almost anything resembling steak is going to smell good to me.