D&D (2024) Why are you still playing D&D?

[Corinnguard]

"Official" versus using 3pp is pretty similar to the "iPhone vs Android" debate. Do you want a curated walled garden of apps, or something more open with the risk and reward that entails?

If LL's work is the latter, then I'll gladly accept it. LL's Class Guide for 5e.

 

[TwoSix]

If LL's work is the latter, then I'll gladly accept it. LL's Class Guide for 5e.

The "risk and reward" is that for every LL and Kibbles, there's a horribly balanced class based off a teenager's favorite LoL character floating around on D&DWiki.

 

[mamba]

Not everything. There is a 2024 monk and a 2014 monk and monk subclasses are going to be designed the 2024 one not the 2014. Monsters will be 2025 monsters etc etc. Sure people will get 90% out of the adventure anthologies and campaigns but as time goes on and the next Tasha’s comes out that gap will grow.

yeah, let the gap grow, I did not get Tasha’s, I won’t use the 2024 PHB either, I could not care less about 2024’s Tasha iteration.

2025 monsters are fine, they work with 2014 characters, as will the adventures and settings (minus some subclasses I guess), so 2014 is not at all cut off the way you initially claimed

3pp is a drop in the ocean of D&D sales.

sure, but when you count books published you can barely make out the WotC offerings in the sea of 3pp, and that is what I was talking about. There is so much to choose from that not using anything WotC is barely noticeable. That no one else has WotC’s sales is not really relevant

 

[Corinnguard]

The "risk and reward" is that for every LL and Kibbles, there's a horribly balanced class based off a teenager's favorite LoL character floating around on D&DWiki.

LoL= League of Legends? I know what you mean. In my first 5e adventure, I went with a Fighter (Scout Variant) from D&DWiki. I had to get my group's approval to use it. Not just the DM's.

Scout, Variant (5e Subclass) - D&D Wiki It looks like someone took the 3e Scout class from Complete Adventurer and made it into a subclass.

 

[mamba]

"Official" versus using 3pp is pretty similar to the "iPhone vs Android" debate. Do you want a curated walled garden of apps, or something more open with the risk and reward that entails?

when it comes to iPhone vs Android, iPhone lost decisively…

 

[TwoSix]

LoL= League of Legends? I know what you mean. In my first 5e adventure, I went with a Fighter (Scout Variant) from D&DWiki. I had to get my group's approval to use it. Not just the DM's.

Scout, Variant (5e Subclass) - D&D Wiki It looks like someone took the 3e Scout class from Complete Adventurer and made it into a subclass.

I've seen some real winners; I had one player bring me a Death Knight class that had 4 proficient saves at level 1, full casting and a paladin smite mechanic, on top of a d12 HD.

 

[Micah Sweet]

The "risk and reward" is that for every LL and Kibbles, there's a horribly balanced class based off a teenager's favorite LoL character floating around on D&DWiki.

It seems like just avoiding D&D Wiki altogether cuts the chaff down to a manageable level right there.

 

[Adamant]

We're now ten plus years into 5th edition and I've heard various whispers of people commenting that it is starting to feel a bit out-dated, perhaps not unlike AD&D in the mid-to-late 90s, after Indie games had innovated in various ways. I could be reading this wrong, of course, or more likely it is a small minority of diehards who consume new games rather voraciously, but...it just seems that there isn't quite the buzz around 2024 that you might expect, even if sales are presumably robust.

Now we have not only the OSR and its descendants, but a variety of well-regarded fantasy games on the market such as the various games by Free League and several others. It even seems that with advances in self-publishing, we're in a bit of a golden era of RPGs, as far as diversity and quality - so it is arguably the best era to be into RPGs, as far as options are concerned.

Yet...D&D still holds a huge percentage of the market share. Other games have fan-bases, but it still seems that no other fantasy game is able to carve out more than a cult following - and of those, probably a lot of folks still play D&D as their main game, if only for convenience.

This thread is NOT meant to be a criticism of D&D or an under-handed way of saying it sux. I'm just curious why folks, especially for long-time players and diehards, are still playing D&D as their primary game, given the wealth of other options.

For the poll, just pick the one or two options that best suit your particular case.

I still play D&D for a couple reasons. The major one is I like Organized Play for the consistent rules and the ability to play the same characters with different DMs, and I feel like I have a choice between Adventurer's League and Pathfinder Society for that. Of the 2, Adventurer's League lets you replay adventures as long as you use a different character, and also lets you decline levels (meaning I can leave my characters at certain tiers rather than continuing to make new ones). Despite all the problems with AL, I feel like it's a better fit than PFS for what I want. Convenience is the other part, where I know how to find AL games but would have to find new places to play PFS, and learn a new game system on top of that.

 

[TwoSix]

It seems like just avoiding D&D Wiki altogether cuts the chaff down to a manageable level right there.

"All these classes are yours, except D&D Wiki. Attempt no landing there."

 

[GreyLord]

I play D&D...but my reply isn't focused on 5e.

In fact, I play TSR D&D still, because it's one of my favorite RPGs and I'm very familiar with it.

Currently, I'm not in a 5e campaign precisely...it's whatever we are calling the new release (5.5...D&D24...D&D anniversary edition???).

However, the one that I always go back to are the TSR versions.