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<blockquote data-quote="pogre" data-source="post: 9212033" data-attributes="member: 6588">Who is this [USER=54840]@SlyFlourish[/USER] guy anyway?Just kidding. I own tons of his books - great stuff that I can highly recommend.The OGL disaster sent my sons and I down the path of writing our own game. We're playing it now and having a great time. Even so, I suspect we will return to D&amp;D at some point. At some point, we will need a new player and it is so much easier to find players by running a D&amp;D game. Once the player fits in with our group's chemistry and likes how we play - we can switch systems again. The alternative is to bring in people who are new to gaming, which we have done,&nbsp; but it is less reliable.That is why I stay on top of developments in D&amp;D and the direction it is going. I don't use the DNDBeyond, but it's likely anyone I recruit will. My somewhat recent experience with this tells me the platform builds expectations for players. They will bristle at limitations placed on character building. Those who say that is a YOU problem and not a WOTC problem are 100% correct.Just making an observation that it does affect me.Finally, I wanted to say I appreciate SlyFlourish taking the time to interact in the forums. I know he prefers Discord and other avenues of discussion, but for this dinosaur I like good old forums.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pogre, post: 9212033, member: 6588"] Who is this [USER=54840]@SlyFlourish[/USER] guy anyway? Just kidding. I own tons of his books - great stuff that I can highly recommend. The OGL disaster sent my sons and I down the path of writing our own game. We're playing it now and having a great time. Even so, I suspect we will return to D&D at some point. At some point, we will need a new player and it is so much easier to find players by running a D&D game. Once the player fits in with our group's chemistry and likes how we play - we can switch systems again. The alternative is to bring in people who are new to gaming, which we have done, but it is less reliable. That is why I stay on top of developments in D&D and the direction it is going. I don't use the DNDBeyond, but it's likely anyone I recruit will. My somewhat recent experience with this tells me the platform builds expectations for players. They will bristle at limitations placed on character building. Those who say that is a YOU problem and not a WOTC problem are 100% correct. Just making an observation that it does affect me. Finally, I wanted to say I appreciate SlyFlourish taking the time to interact in the forums. I know he prefers Discord and other avenues of discussion, but for this dinosaur I like good old forums. [/QUOTE]

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