So, as of this point in time, how many of you have played 5e D&D?
How many of you are regularly playing it?
How many of you are mainly playing it (that is, it is what you are most often playing now)?
Quote from: RPGPundit;834472So, as of this point in time, how many of you have played 5e D&D?
Yes
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I run it every fortnight and some one offs every now and then.
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It's the only RPG I run ATM. although I have loads of RPGs, but I only feel like running 5E atm.
Another player is running CoC 7th ed, which I play in, but pretty infrequently, as he's a bit of a perfectionist, so spends an inordinate amount of time prepping.
Still, when we DO play, it's great fun :)
Playing it regularly.
I alternate D&D 5E bi-weekly with play-tests of new material for my Terracide setting.
(Gotta get my SF fix when I'm not doing fantasy!)
Running it weekly and -- given my group's unexpected enthusiasm for the game -- sometimes even twice a week.
I'm pretty much playing it vanilla system-wise, but in old school Judges Guild mode; which is to say, as a hexcrawl in my multiversal fantasy version of the Lotharii Regnum/Alsace.
I might be releasing my 5E encounter tables as soon as I have stripped them from setting-specific entries.
Currently running a bi-weekly 5E game. We played the introductory adventure "Lost Mine of Phandelver", then made new characters and are now playing in my Barbarian, Conqueror, King setting (originally intended for ACKS). This is the main RPG I am running right now.
Quote from: RPGPundit;834472So, as of this point in time, how many of you have played 5e D&D?
How many of you are regularly playing it?
How many of you are mainly playing it (that is, it is what you are most often playing now)?
Yes.
Yes.
No.
Quote from: RPGPundit;834472So, as of this point in time, how many of you have played 5e D&D?
How many of you are regularly playing it?
How many of you are mainly playing it (that is, it is what you are most often playing now)?
Playing it and DMing it.
Regularly playing it. DMing it is on hold for now after a medical emergency sidelined one of the players. I am hoping something changes for the better soon.
Right now 5e and and the longrunning Spelljammer game that moved over to a new system are the two I am mainly playing in right now.
I've been running a 5e campaign since right after Christmas. We play every two weeks, and with our busy adult lives, this is pretty much the only game that we play at all.
It's the only tabletop I'm running at the moment. Using Eberron for it.
Quote from: RPGPundit;834472So, as of this point in time, how many of you have played 5e D&D?
How many of you are regularly playing it?
How many of you are mainly playing it (that is, it is what you are most often playing now)?
One of my group's players offered to run a one-shot for us some months ago. We had a good time and 2 other people bought the PHB recently based on that session.
The guy who ran it for us plays regularly back where he lives (he only comes out 1/month because he lives ~2.5 hours away). None of us in the local group are playing it regularly. We just have other long term games going on and no one felt the urge to replace either of them with 5e though we may switch to it once one of them ends.
Quote from: RPGPundit;834472So, as of this point in time, how many of you have played 5e D&D?
Yeah, I've played it.
QuoteHow many of you are regularly playing it?
I played it weekly between November and March. But since March I've taken a hiatus from that particular gaming group, and haven't played it since.
QuoteHow many of you are mainly playing it (that is, it is what you are most often playing now)?
Not me. That 5 month window will likely be the first and last time I play 5e. I have no interest in it at all. That experience proved to me that D&D, of any edition or stripe, no longer has any appeal for me. There are many other Rpgs that I'd much rather run or play that I'd rather not waste time again with the D&D experience.
Played. GMed.
Regularly play. At least once a week, currently, often twice or three times per week. Months ago I binged hard around 4 to 5 days per week with other RPG games mixed in. And my PbP here atop all that.
It is not my main play now. It has dropped below half this season.
(I hang out often at an FLGS like a bar. Cheaper than alcohol and keeps me from binging snacks in front of the TV/books at home.)
Quote from: RPGPundit;834472So, as of this point in time, how many of you have played 5e D&D?
I've played it twice. I enjoyed playing in more than I have any other WOTC edition, but not nearly enough to switch to it from my variant TSR D&D standard. Which means the answers to the second and third questions are both no.
Yeah, it's our main game right now.
Quote from: RPGPundit;834472So, as of this point in time, how many of you have played 5e D&D?
How many of you are regularly playing it?
How many of you are mainly playing it (that is, it is what you are most often playing now)?
Monthly 10 hour in person sessions of 5e with one group.
Weekly 3 hour sessions of Roll20 sessions of 5e with another group.
Also playing: Dungeon World and Mutant Future.
5e accounts for more than 50% at this point.
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I have several times and blogged about it.
http://batintheattic.blogspot.com/search/label/DnD%205e
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D?
I am running a regular campaign set in the Majestic Wilderlands. Probably will come up with a supplement if Wizard ever has a 3rd party license.
http://gamingballistic.blogspot.com/search/label/Majestic%20Wilderlands
Quote from: RPGPundit;834472How many of you are mainly playing it (that is, it is what you are most often playing now)?
I have to say it is my main system due to how my schedule plays out. I still work on my Swords & Wizardry/Majestic Wilderlands. Right now it is 75% 5e / 25% S&W, if I could work things out it would be 50/50.
I am playing in a bi-weekly campaign right now. It's not our main game, as we're playing the Force and Destiny beta.
I've been getting a 5e campaign going in fits and spurts. Tried to learn the system (with lots and lots of the "gritty" DMG options) after years away from the table and bite off a huge wilderness sandbox to boot, and kept running into ridiculous TPKs. We're now scaling back to fewer optional rules (pretty much back to baseline healing, but no HPs on long rest and healer's kit dependency still in effect) and with the tighter focus of the dungeon environment we're starting to really hit a stride.
I think I might run the next session pure theater of the mind, the players are a little too into hex-counting on combat turns and waiting three minutes just to make your next death save is causing a lot of drift-off. Hell I think combats could be over in the time it takes me to sketch the terrain on the battlemat, which seems like a poor return on investment- especially when the combat is just three ghouls surprising the party from the rear.
Liking the system so far but then last night was the first session where anyone made it back to town with XP, so we're still getting our sea-legs for sure.
Main weekly game I play in.
Have three sessions end of the month I am writing for a local Convention so will be GMing for first time then.
Before that played two separate short term campaigns, Lost Mines just to see how it played and then Another Gm ran a short campaign but burned out like he often does.
Have played. Am playing weekly game now. Currently exclusively playing 5e.
Enjoying it. Next campaign will not be 5e but not because of any disatisfaction with 5e.
Run a couple of games using the basic rules and monster manual before xmas, currently prepping a full campaign that should begin in a couple of weeks all being well(waiting for a couple of folks to settle into their new home first before we begin).
At the moment it's my go too system for fantasy gaming.
Quote from: RPGPundit;834472how many of you have played 5e D&D?
I've played 5E.
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Playing it regularly. Playing once per week and also GM'ing once per week.
Quote from: RPGPundit;834472How many of you are mainly playing it (that is, it is what you are most often playing now)?
It's what I play most at the moment, but mostly because it's what the game store is sponsoring. I love to play other RPGs, but if I want to play at the store it has to be 5E.
Yes, played it. Playing it regularly, and mainly playing it right now. In fact outside of plans to run other games hypothetically down the road 5E is all I am playing. Run roughly 77 sessions averaging 4-6 hours so far since June of last year.
Quote from: RPGPundit;834472So, as of this point in time, how many of you have played 5e D&D?
Played/playing it currently.
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Playing it weekly.
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I only play one RPG at a time. So right now, 5e is it.
Edit: Strike that. Afternoon discussion with several group-members have called for us to shift the game to Fantasy Craft. 5e is officially shelved for now.
I'm an Encounters/Adventure's DM, which means I run it every Wednesday for a couple of hours, with a full crew.
But my main game is currently a Mutants and Masterminds 3e game I run every Sunday.
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Yes, I GMed
Hoard of the Dragon Queen (but changed 90% of the campaign though), I'd like to run
Rise of Tiamat but...
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... we played once a week for six months but one of my players is dumb as a sack of rock when it comes to rules and even D&D5 is too much to handle for her. The other players are too lazy to read even the basic rules so...
Quote from: RPGPundit;834472How many of you are mainly playing it (that is, it is what you are most often playing now)?
I'm not running it anymore 'cause I have better things to do than holding the hands of my retarded players. It's a shame because I really like this edition and I never was a big D&D fan (I started with
The Dark Eye then moved on to
Runequest/
Stormbringer/
Cthulhu) and the next campaign looks awesome.
But the game really makes me want to find another group to run it again.
Quote from: RPGPundit;834472So, as of this point in time, how many of you have played 5e D&D?
How many of you are regularly playing it?
How many of you are mainly playing it (that is, it is what you are most often playing now)?
I have played it.
I am playing it every two weeks and running it every two weeks.
It is my most frequent game ran/played currently. I am playing in a once monthly Rolemaster Beta.
Quote from: RPGPundit;834472So, as of this point in time, how many of you have played 5e D&D?
How many of you are regularly playing it?
How many of you are mainly playing it (that is, it is what you are most often playing now)?
I'm running a regular online 5e game since I think March, we've played 29 sessions. Also playing a semi-regular but less than monthly 5e game, ca 5-6 sessions.
I'm GMing 4 campaigns currently, the 5e one I think is the most frequent, but the others are all tabletop - weekly Mentzer Classic D&D, fortnightly 4e D&D, fortnightly Pathfinder. Add those 3 together and they're more frequent than the 5e game, but my current thinking is that I won't run Pathfinder again after current campaign ends, and I doubt I'd run 4e for a long time either, so both those groups are likely to go 5e eventually. Alternative would be to run more Classic, I'm really liking it, if anything a bit better than 5e for traditional fantasy.
Playing weekly. I only have time for one game or I'd probably play more. It's D&D and it's good.
No interest in yet another rewrite of D&D. Count me out.
Funny how many folks swore off Wizards of the Coast only to go right back to the hand that beats them. Stockholm syndrome?
Quote from: Matt;834665Funny how many folks swore off Wizards of the Coast only to go right back to the hand that beats them. Stockholm syndrome?
For me, the last iteration of DnD I played (ran actually) was 2e in the late 80s.
After that it was RQ, Rolemater, Spacemaster, later the WoD various RPGs and all sorts of other stuff.
So for me it's been about 26 year hiatus from TSR/WotC, although I never swore off DnD or WotC/TSR, I just kind of moved on.
Now I've kind of come back to it, for a while at least until I get sick of it or something else catches my eye..
Quote from: Matt;834665No interest in yet another rewrite of D&D. Count me out.
But rewrites of WW stuff or BRP are perfectly fine, yup.
Quote from: Matt;834665Funny how many folks swore off Wizards of the Coast only to go right back to the hand that beats them. Stockholm syndrome?
Really? You're going to go there? Really? What, did Wizards steal your girl, burn your dog and invalidate your Magic Cards collection or something?
Quote from: Matt;834665Funny how many folks swore off Wizards of the Coast only to go right back to the hand that beats them. Stockholm syndrome?
I can't imagine "swearing off" a company unless it supports apartheid in South Africa or something. Then again, I also can't imagine being so devoted to a company that I'm compelled to love all their products equally, as if they were my children. Unhealthy obsessions?
My semi-weekly 5e shroompunk game just folded-- so I ran it regularly for a few months, but I'm not running it now. I might pick it up again, but my next campaign is going to be using a Fate hack I put together for D&D-like settings-- either in Spelljammer or my Spelljammer-like Wandering Stars setting.
My group and I played it for 3-4 sessions. We had fun, but transitioned back to one of our more normal games (I was running stuff while my GM wasn't up to it, once he was back able to game, I handed the group back, gladly) as soon as we could. It wasn't 5E's fault or anything -- we dug it -- we just had other stuff we wanted to do more.
I played in a short campaign of it.
I'm not currently playing it.
It was never going to be my game of choice, and I'm not going to run it, but I'd happily play it again with the right group... and I'm kind of hoping my regular Wednesday group will transition to it at some point because it beats the pants off Pathfinder.
Quote from: Christopher Brady;834674But rewrites of WW stuff or BRP are perfectly fine, yup.
Well, up until lately BRP rewrites have been reliably compatible with previous versions... mostly aesthetic changes to versions of CoC. I bought them because I knew they'd be useful, if only as spare copies.
That compared to D&D thrashing around in various directions that were not tempting at all... it's nice to be able to say I'd be happy to play in the current version, even if it's not in my top 10.
No
No
and
No
No time these days for a regular group. When I have a chance, I jump into a local group as a one shot appearance, but that is never really satisfying. I am thinking of running the little ones on this system when they get a little bit older:
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/144651/Exemplars--Eidolons
They are enjoying playing with my dice, assorted terrain, and my plastic monsters though, so it is still pretty good. Those plastic bits are not just for rpging, they also great for kiddies!
6E may be the edition at that time they reach prime rpg age, so other that the free Basic pdf (which is quite rich), I think I will skip this edition.
My creaking bookcase also provides many other options, namely d6 SW, 1986-era Faserip and TSR D&D.
Cheers from the baking Orient.
Just completed DMing an 8-month 5E campaign based on the Tiamat books. I think the final tally was somewhere around 19 four-hour sessions - about 76 hours total.
It was the only game I was involved in during that time. Three others in our group were involved in other games throughout that period: 1 x 5E, 1 x 3.5 and 1 x Star Wars of some sort.
At this point, I'm taking a break from DMing and we plan to spend a month or so finishing up a 3.5 campaign that was put on hold last fall. I'm just a player in that one.
Then, most likely, back to 5E again.
Quote from: Matt;834665No interest in yet another rewrite of D&D. Count me out.
Funny how many folks swore off Wizards of the Coast only to go right back to the hand that beats them. Stockholm syndrome?
Probably more who just skipped an edition or two until something that calls back to AD&D came along. Helps if you missed out on the loony bin antics of 3 and 4e players once they became obsolete. Wait till they drop 5e around 2019-2020 for the next. People are going to go ballistic.
Quote from: Greg Benage;834689I can't imagine "swearing off" a company unless it supports apartheid in South Africa or something. Then again, I also can't imagine being so devoted to a company that I'm compelled to love all their products equally, as if they were my children. Unhealthy obsessions?
I have with a few companies. White Wolf/Arthaus/Swords&Sorcery, Games Workshop, SJG. Stronghold is starting to creep up the problem-meter for me. One dirty deed too many that I am not handing them more money.
Had WOTC handled this differently (IE: Badly) I'd have likely passed on 5e too and still be running AD&D and BX.
Though GW loves to tempt. But I resist. So far. :cool:
Well, I've run it for the teenagers and they like it.
It lets them play the way they want to rather than constantly fighting the system.
Personally I'm less than thrilled with it but I don't hate it, it's just a bit over built IMO.
We've temporarily gone back to GURPS End of the World but that's just because too few of the players showed up the last two week due to jobs and grad.
I play in a 5e game every week.
Plays the default "generic High Fantasy with everything thrown in and doesn't feel like anything" very well. I'm not trying to be goofy - lots of people love that style (Pathfinder) and that's great. Seems easier than Pathfinder but still enough crunch to play with.
Still don't like the Advantage/Disadvantage mechanic, since in nearly EVERY SITUATION on EVERY ROLL you should come up with a reason why you should have Advantage, which leads to a ridiculous discussion, and then lots of hard feelings and unnecessary conflict. Imagine if instead of getting a Proficiency Bonus each level you had to have a discussion with the GM every time you rolled where you argued whether or not your Proficiency Bonus would apply.
At one point, Advantage/Disadvantage was SUPPOSED to be "once you've gotten +5/-5 net, just use Advantage/Disadvantage instead" which fit with the whole idea of Bounded Accuracy, which they abandoned.
I'd rather play something else, though.
I've DM'd it around every two weeks as an ongoing campaign which has been tons of fun and would happen more often if we all didn't have such busy schedules.
I'm really considering seeing if there are any open player slots in someone else's game because I wouldn't mind playing a character in addition to the fun I'm having as a GM.
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Still don't like the Advantage/Disadvantage mechanic, since in nearly EVERY SITUATION on EVERY ROLL you should come up with a reason why you should have Advantage, which leads to a ridiculous discussion, and then lots of hard feelings and unnecessary conflict.
I don't remember anything in the books about players deciding when they had advtg/disad, or "suggest to your GM when you should have advtg" - I thought it was purely a GM-side decision.
Quote from: S'mon;834980I don't remember anything in the books about players deciding when they had advtg/disad, or "suggest to your GM when you should have advtg" - I thought it was purely a GM-side decision.
It is, and the book is pretty clear on what you can('t) do.
Weird. I was told on other forums (RPGNet, Wizards, EnWorld) that you can ask for advantage/disadvantage, therefore you should.
If you can't, that's great and solves a lot of problems
Quote from: PencilBoy99;835012Weird. I was told on other forums (RPGNet, Wizards, EnWorld) that you can ask for advantage/disadvantage, therefore you should.
If you can't, that's great and solves a lot of problems
You can ask if a certain situation (as an 'Improvised Action' in combat) or if a character background (for a skill check) might help, but that's usually rare. In fact, I've yet to have it happen. I'm more likely to give either to the players.
YMMV.
Christopher Brady is absolutely right. GM prerogative has been repeated and encouraged throughout this edition. You can alway ask. That has nothing to do with whether it will be granted. The game provides a strong framework of explicit mechanical situations to guide GMs if and when they encounter improvised situations.
And players usually go for the rules specific things which explicitly grant Adv/Disadv. Rare do they try Improvised Action or PC background to appeal for it. I too find myself reminding players of their race, backgrounds, or environmental objects to give Adv/Disadv.
Quote from: PencilBoy99;835012Weird. I was told on other forums (RPGNet, Wizards, EnWorld) that you can ask for advantage/disadvantage, therefore you should.
If you can't, that's great and solves a lot of problems
Similar to Surprise. It is situational and the DMs call unless something specifically says you have it. Like some conditions, Flanking, some class abilities, a few spells, etc.
Outside of that you can try to gain advantage or impose advantage by asking the DM. Like getting some enemies in a mire and asking if that grants advantage. Or you re-inforce an illusion with some stage tricks to try and impose disadvantage on the viewers save.
An in play example would be Jannet who will in a tight battle ask the GM if she can forgo using her extra attack to take harder bow aim to gain advantage. She does not do that every single battle and the DM has been agreeable to the rare times shes tried it. Whereas for the group I DM I cannot recall them ever trying to set up freewheeling advantage/disadvantage. It has always been using the mechanical triggers.
Play 5e every other week, and 13th Age the other week.
I am not a traditional D&D fan, more 'other' games so this is a ground breaking edition for me.
I DM'd it, briefly.
No, I don't currently run or play it, and I don't feel the need. It's ok, but after 3e and 4e it's "too little, too late".
There are so many OSR clones and hacks (and d20 hacks) that I like way better, from Exemplars & Eidolons, over Swords & Wizardry, over everything by John Stater and Simon Washbourne (Crimson Blades!), over Beyond the Wall, over the dK System, to Whitehack.
If I ever use something remotely 5ish I'll hack bounded accuracy, advantage/disadvantage and backgrounds into Microlite 20, and be done.
Even though I helped make it, I have yet to have an opportunity to use it. This isn't due to any distaste, though, its just that I play very very long campaigns.
Ran a campaign for a few months, then recently switched to AD&D because that's what one of the guys in my group wants to run for a few sessions. Then another guy will start running a 5E campaign (The Princes of the Apocalypse) when that's finished.
So yeah, it's pretty much our default now.
Quote from: RPGPundit;834472So, as of this point in time, how many of you have played 5e D&D?
How many of you are regularly playing it?
How many of you are mainly playing it (that is, it is what you are most often playing now)?
I am not adverse to this edition as I was to 4e. However, I didn't even buy the books, and do not intend to, except maybe for the monster manual (just in case I would want to make a 5e variant of my next book). The image I saw featuring a ludicrous geisha-samurai, killed what little interest I had in the game. I am more interested in getting a copy of Crypt & Things II when it is released.
Quote from: Dirk Remmecke;835174If I ever use something remotely 5ish I'll hack bounded accuracy, advantage/disadvantage and backgrounds into Microlite 20, and be done.
People are already trying to do that. There are at least two Microlite20 5e-style variants in the Microlite20 Variants (http://microlite20.org/forum/index.php?action=downloads;cat=8) section of the Microlite20.org download library.
I'd be willing to give Micro-5 a shot sometime.:-)
Still perfectly happy with the books I've been using all along, and not feeling inclined to buy a new edition every handful of years.
I bought the reprints a couple of years ago instead, so it isn't as if WOTC can't have my money. If they would allow 3rd party support for older editions with a royalty going to WOTC, they could have more of my money.