SteveC
Doing the best imitation of myself
That it's something my group will play. I was in a group with friends who live out on the coast (I'm a Midwesterner) and we were playing 3.5. We hit the levels where the game becomes complicated and hard to balance. This group of friends was about to rage quit and stop gaming.
And so we switched up the game to 5E and it was ... fine. The campaign we were running was Shackled City and there was this encounter with a Dracolich who killed a buffed character before they even got to act. When we picked up with the game it wasn't exactly easy, but I'd call it more casual fun. So we continued.
And then we had a brand-new DM pick up "Dragon Heist" and run that. That game was also perfectly fine from a game standard and we had a lot of fun. That new DM is becoming a really good one.
So I think the answer is "it's perfectly fine," is the one for me. I prefer other game systems but it lets me hang out with friends and pretend to be a goblin, so it works for me.
And so we switched up the game to 5E and it was ... fine. The campaign we were running was Shackled City and there was this encounter with a Dracolich who killed a buffed character before they even got to act. When we picked up with the game it wasn't exactly easy, but I'd call it more casual fun. So we continued.
And then we had a brand-new DM pick up "Dragon Heist" and run that. That game was also perfectly fine from a game standard and we had a lot of fun. That new DM is becoming a really good one.
So I think the answer is "it's perfectly fine," is the one for me. I prefer other game systems but it lets me hang out with friends and pretend to be a goblin, so it works for me.