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<blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 6204480" data-attributes="member: 11697"><p>1) If I'm playing an RPG that covers the thematic niche that D&D traditionally does, I have Pathfinder. If I'm playing something outside of that niche, I have other RPGs like Eclipse Phase, Shadowrun, etc</p><p></p><p>2) I was a fan of Forgotten Realms. WotC doesn't appear willing to retcon the 4e Realms, and thus I'm not honestly all that interested. Without it to draw me in, that's a mark against 5e.</p><p></p><p>3) Real life and career. I'm engaged as of recently, and I have a job that devours my time. My freelancing is relatively limited in scale, and if I'm not invested already in a game system/setting, I don't have the time and creative energy to learn a new system like 5e unless I know that it's going to be worth that investment.</p><p></p><p>4) After the handling of various settings in 4e it's difficult for me to have full faith in WotC's ability to handle those settings moving forward, even the ones spared the most damage. Additionally, with the pretty massive turnover in staff, most of the people whose work and knowledge of the material I trust and even people whose name I'm familiar with have either resigned or suffered the annual layoff(s). The ones whose work I've enjoyed I'll happily follow on to their next thing (like Cook and Cordell doing Numenera), but WotC largely seems gutted of creative continuity and knowledge of their own long-standing IPs that makes me wary of 5e in a big way after some of the mockery in 4e directed towards some of the material that 5e is now pushing to embrace, or telling us that it's embracing. They lost my trust with 4e, and it's going to be difficult to earn it back. I'm more than open to the effort, but it'll be hard.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shemeska, post: 6204480, member: 11697"] 1) If I'm playing an RPG that covers the thematic niche that D&D traditionally does, I have Pathfinder. If I'm playing something outside of that niche, I have other RPGs like Eclipse Phase, Shadowrun, etc 2) I was a fan of Forgotten Realms. WotC doesn't appear willing to retcon the 4e Realms, and thus I'm not honestly all that interested. Without it to draw me in, that's a mark against 5e. 3) Real life and career. I'm engaged as of recently, and I have a job that devours my time. My freelancing is relatively limited in scale, and if I'm not invested already in a game system/setting, I don't have the time and creative energy to learn a new system like 5e unless I know that it's going to be worth that investment. 4) After the handling of various settings in 4e it's difficult for me to have full faith in WotC's ability to handle those settings moving forward, even the ones spared the most damage. Additionally, with the pretty massive turnover in staff, most of the people whose work and knowledge of the material I trust and even people whose name I'm familiar with have either resigned or suffered the annual layoff(s). The ones whose work I've enjoyed I'll happily follow on to their next thing (like Cook and Cordell doing Numenera), but WotC largely seems gutted of creative continuity and knowledge of their own long-standing IPs that makes me wary of 5e in a big way after some of the mockery in 4e directed towards some of the material that 5e is now pushing to embrace, or telling us that it's embracing. They lost my trust with 4e, and it's going to be difficult to earn it back. I'm more than open to the effort, but it'll be hard. [/QUOTE]
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