11-15-2018, 05:57 AM | #21 |
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The opinion of the group I play in was 4th edition wasn't D&D it was an attempt to simulate a MMORPG. Fifth edition was D&D and we'd play if someone wanted to run it but we prefer 3.5 for D&D. We like more skills and more difference in the characters.
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11-15-2018, 07:18 AM | #22 | |
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D&D Fourth Edition was indeed Dungeons & Dragons. Look at the cover.
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11-15-2018, 07:50 AM | #23 | |
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11-15-2018, 08:53 AM | #24 | |
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Both actually boil down to "The party recovers relatively quickly when the DM permits". The DM can prevent you from getting either length of rest any time he feels like it. Usually he doesn't as the HP mechanic leads to a "The party stops doing stuff until it gets its' HP back." condition and it is usually in the DM's interest to have the game go on. The short rest/long rest thing does seem to do away with the "Mandatory Cleric" party role or even the "Mandatoroy Cleric Equivalent" role. That's where you swap out a Fighter and a Cleric for a Paladin and a Druid or something similar. I do know one gamer of long experience who doesn't liek 5e Clerics after he played one in our Ravenloft game.
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11-15-2018, 09:07 AM | #25 | |
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11-15-2018, 12:03 PM | #26 |
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I've been playing D&D since B/X and AD&D (1e), and have played at least a little bit of 1E through 5E. I've played 4E the least because, while it had some interesting innovations, and (as Tom H said) scored high on presentation, it didn't feel enough like previous editions for my taste (so it's the only edition I never DMed). So I stuck with 3.5 for a full decade until my group decided to try Pathfinder, and that's been our default system since.
I have played and run 5E--though not nearly as much as I would like--and I enjoy it a great deal. Its simplicity is its real strength. It's easy to learn, feels a great deal like 2E in tone and play, and has just enough of the variety of options that 3E had to keep character creation and advancement interesting but not burdensome. I'm torn to say whether I like Pathfinder or 5E better. PF appeals to my desire to tinker and to closely define many little details, and I know it far better. I'm using it for my current home game because that campaign was originally conceived for 3.5, so PF remains the best way to express certain core parts of the setting without massive rewriting. I'm also heavily involved in Pathfinder Society organized play. But PF can frequently be labor-(or at least choice-)intensive when it comes to character creation and GM prep, so I honestly can't say how much I'll want to run another long-term campaign with it after we finish this one. (I'm aiming for us to reach 20th level and at least a few mythic tiers by the end, so the answer very well could be, "Please, *anything* else!" ;-) ) Meanwhile, I'm trying to get more familiar with 5E by running canned adventures for my wife and kids. I'm seriously considering using 5E for my next foray into Green Ronin's Freeport setting--enough so that I've been writing about combining the two on and off on my blog for the past couple years. But it's going to be quite a while before I can commit to running any new full-time game. |
11-15-2018, 12:29 PM | #27 | |
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Not a huge complaint - I like the new edition very much; I find it fun to run and fun to play, as longa you're willing to play in a certain style. (Of course I'd still prefer GURPS any day of the week, but that's another conversation....)
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11-15-2018, 01:00 PM | #28 |
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I've run B/X and AD&D 1e quite a lot, 2e some, a little bit of 3.5e, and 5e is a nice modernization that brings the game in line with the current hobby and with mainstream non-RPGer expectations.
It is definitely D&D in style and substance, and it is a nice game to teach newbies. In other words, it's great at being our hobby's gateway drug, for which I am grateful. It is the indispensible RPG, and the hobby suffered when previous versions weren't as well suited to D&D's role. All that said, I'll join the chorus and say it borrows a lot of the best from the past while still being a modern interpretation of the game. I'd say it's the easiest to learn since the Basic D&D line died, the most AD&Dish since AD&D 2e, and the most modern since 3.5e. How's that? :)
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