D&D (2024) You're not planning on getting 2024 D&D? Why is that?

[FitzTheRuke]

What rules issues? I've been playing with the UA for over a year. We haven't had one rules issue. I see threads on this forum with people arguing about the D&D equivalent of angels on the heads of pins, but in actual play, not a problem.

There are some strange loopholes that I almost feel like Crawford is trying to Punk people who don't take the fiction seriously before they take the rules seriously, as opposed to the other-way-around.

None of it is much of a problem when everyone is playing in good faith, which is, as you say "actual play" - but it's pretty strange for an update that is somewhat more rules-tight than 5e to have some glaring holes.

Make no mistake: There will be errata.

I don't personally think that it's a reason to not-buy, as the errata will be simple "common sense" rulings that you can easily do at the table, but I can understand why some folks might feel that way.

 

[Dioltach]

I'm still happily playing 3.5 and various D20 alternatives like Modern and Star Wars.

 

[delericho]

I've recently finished up the final campaign with my current group (we lost a player which meant we found it really hard to reach a quorum, and had no luck recruiting), and I'm afraid I have neither the time nor really the inclination to start over again with a new group. Which means I'm done with gaming for the time being, and potentially permanently.

Which is a shame, because I actually liked almost all of what I'd seen, and could live with the rest.

 

[Nebulous]

I might get it next year when all three books are out. I dunno. It looks pretty, but it's not all that different than 5.0 IMO. I'm also not going to shift mid-campaign. If I were to start a brand new D&D campaign I would upgrade to 2024. But there's also many other games I want to try, like DCC and Shadow of the Weird Wizard and DC20 and more. Not to mention Pulp Cthulhu that i've wanted to run for years now. There's just too much to saddle myself to simply D&D, but I also have to go with what the players generally prefer. But I try to tell them, if the DM is interested and excited by a system/setting, that will bleed over to player fun.

 

[schneeland]

Same reason I’ve given for the last year-plus; it’s simply not novel enough.

Reorganized 5e is still 5e.

More or less the same here. It's less an individual, specific aspect of the game, and more of an overall assessment that the game doesn't excite me enough to buy it.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I've recently finished up the final campaign with my current group (we lost a player which meant we found it really hard to reach a quorum, and had no luck recruiting), and I'm afraid I have neither the time nor really the inclination to start over again with a new group. Which means I'm done with gaming for the time being, and potentially permanently.

Which is a shame, because I actually liked almost all of what I'd seen, and could live with the rest.

Hate to see someone go. I hope you find a new group some day!

 

[payn]

Im getting the alt covers now, but before that, I was in the happy with other editions camp. No issues with 5E or 5.2, I just have little time to focus on the games that interest me that puts it down the list.

 

[MGibster]

The long and the short of it is that I'm just not that excited about playing D&D these days. And as I told my 5th edition Player's Handbook, "It's not you, baby. It's me." D&D 5th edition is my favorite version of the game, but even as the go to DM for my group, I actually own very few books. In a ten year period I've bought seven D&D books.

1. PHB
2. DMG
3. Monster Manual
4. Curse of Strahd
5. Eberron
6. Xanathar's Guide to Everything
7. Princes of the Apocalypse (still in shrinkwrap)

Despite having played Alien only once, I own 5 different products (not counting the Mother's screen). For whatever reason, WotC just doens't produce D&D books I'm interested in. I was interested in Spelljammer until I found the setting wasn't really detailed and it came with a lackluster adventure. I had a chance to purchase it for half price at Barnes & Noble and still skipped on it. You gotta have good ship-to-ship rules for a Spelljammer campaign!

I'm just not that interested in D&D games right now. There are a plethora of other games I'd rather play including Call of Cthulhu, Aliens, Bladerunner, Fallout, and even Cyberpunk 2020.

 

[LordEntrails]

I just don't have any reason or need TO buy it.

I don't go around trying to figure out what not to buy. There are simple too many things in this world to try and figure out which ones I don't want to buy.

I don't buy anything until I have a reason or desire TO buy something. I have no need or desire to buy it. We are in the middle of a 5E Eberron campaign right now and why would I want to change the rules part way through? Nope. Don't know what we will be playing next, very likely to not even be D&D so...

Someday I will probably have a want for it and will buy it. I've pretty much bought every edition (not Essentials) at some time or another so odds are I will buy it, but who knows when.

 

[cbwjm]

I'm just not so keen on the direction they went, I don't like some of the changes (going from old UAs, no idea how many of those ideas were finalised). It also sounds like some of their design was a step backwards, such as backgrounds having the ASIs tied to them, if I did upgrade, I'd dismantle the backgrounds and allow people to pick and choose everything to build their own character background. I'm sure people are going to love 5.5, but I just don't feel the need to upgrade. I think I'm also a little burnt out on 5e in general.