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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 8870485" data-attributes="member: 2205">Nothing. To quote Mr Darcy, "My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever." 6e (I refuse to dignify the obviously disingenuous notion that OneD&D isn't a new edition by calling it that) is clearly heading in a different direction than I have any interest in, but I've already bailed on D&D twice now, and I can't imagine that I'd come back to the normal, regular game. I've found my Holy Grail system, and it ain't D&D anymore.If they do something so interesting that I want to buy it just to read it academically, that could happen, I guess. If they do something with the brand outside of the game itself that is interesting enough to hold my interest, that could do it. I don't know what those things are, but I can imagine them existing, at least. If they started publishing really good novels again, or something, or had a really good computer/console game, or a decent streaming show, or something. I could get into those if they weren't hot garbage, but I'd be very skeptical that they wouldn't be. I'm even going to give the movie a chance to win me over, in spite of loads of red flags in the trailers so far.But I won't play 6e, certainly. I didn't play much 1e, absolutely no 2e, or 4e, or 5e, and all of those did things that I really liked (along with a lot of things that I didn't, to be fair.) Honestly, I'm still salty that 3e turned into 3.5, even though I acknowledge that 3.5 was better than 3e once all was said and done, and I did buy a lot of 3.5 splatbooks. After a while, though, I was just buying them to read them and had little interest in actually using them. And after some time, I didn't even like the 3e premise of the rules very much anyway.And I guess I could conceivably come back for a really great game with really great friends, regardless of the rules, but that's nothing that WotC can provide.EDIT: I'd conceivably have a look at another new campaign setting, if it isn't janky. I know it probably didn't really do what WotC hoped it would, but I liked both the idea of Eberron, and its execution, and frankly, I really liked the idea of how they came around to selecting it. I submitted two campaign briefs myself, along with thousands of others, but that made me more excited about the game than anything before or since.Even if I think that the premise of Eberron, ironically, is held back by being too tightly wed to being D&D.And I'd be interested in modular stuff. Y'know, stuff that would be useful regardless of what system you play. I'd look at that, just for curiosity's sake, if nothing else.</blockquote>

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