Outside of this forum, what is the reception of OneD&D looking like so far?

[Jam The MF]

How are the other RPG folks, receiving what WOTC is selling to them?  All of it.  Everything.  The whole damn bag of WOTC holding.

[GhostNinja]

How are the other RPG folks, receiving what WOTC is selling to them?  All of it.  Everything.  The whole damn bag of WOTC holding.

None of the gamers I talk with (I am running two games, one with 8 players, one with 6) none have said a word.

Take that with a grain of salt.

[Chris24601]

The group who plays 5e has said they'll continue to use their existing books to run campaigns, but have no plans to update, nor do they have any desire to switch to online play.

[weirdguy564]

Negatively, mostly.

The people I talk to are turned off by WotC business tactics and will stick to what they got. Or switch to another game. 

[S'mon]

Good jumping off point, like pathfinder 2e was for Paizo.

[Ghostmaker]

Very poorly. We're talking 'I'm not giving WotC another red cent' levels of contempt. And it's across the sociopolitical spectrum, regardless of leanings. Kind of fascinating, really.

I'm sure people will still play 5E, because they have the books if nothing else. Hell, it's not a terrible system. Annoying at times, but not terrible. But WotC and Hasbro have so comprehensively shit the bed it makes me wonder how long inertia will carry them.

[Steven Mitchell]

I don't interact with others in gaming outside my normal groups much.  The last six months, it's been all but non-existent.  The exception was a few weeks ago when gaming came up in conversation with several others with whom I have never played anything.  I'm not even sure which games they do play.  However, when I casually mentioned I was doing my own thing, and had changed it recently because of "WotC shenanigans", I got pointed, interested, and informed questions and comments from 4 different people.  All demonstrated understanding of why I might want to go that route.  Several others were listening in attentively. 

Make of that anecdote what you will.  Small pool, but it's the only other contact I've had, and it was not in any way positive towards WotC, OneD&D, or even 5E any longer. 

[Venka]

The 5.5 reddit is pretty sure it needs to have this and that thing copied from 4th edition, or some guy's pet houserule about favored casting stats or whatever.  None of them seem to be really hyped for what has been released, but they all want their pet thing shoved in there so that everyone else has to smell their favorite anime-inspired attack in their TTRPG forever, or... something.

[Jam The MF]

The group who plays 5e has said they'll continue to use their existing books to run campaigns, but have no plans to update, nor do they have any desire to switch to online play.

I understand, that mindset.  Use what you already own.  Do whatever you want to, with it.  Piss on WOTC, beyond that.

[Jam The MF]

Very poorly. We're talking 'I'm not giving WotC another red cent' levels of contempt. And it's across the sociopolitical spectrum, regardless of leanings. Kind of fascinating, really.

I'm sure people will still play 5E, because they have the books if nothing else. Hell, it's not a terrible system. Annoying at times, but not terrible. But WotC and Hasbro have so comprehensively shit the bed it makes me wonder how long inertia will carry them.

Oh, how nice it would be; to watch them slide into the Underdark.....  Slide, I say!!!

[honeydipperdavid]

They are increasing player power, while not seeming yet to discuss monster power.  It appears they are taking super hero players and turning them into immortal players.  There is some minor feat clean up, but otherwise its not looking good from a balance perspective.  I'm the one bringing it up, only the warlock liked what he saw, and locks are pretty fucking weak.  You aren't going to take a short rest in a small dungeon to get your spell slots back.  They turned Locks into half casters and long rest for spells, you know so they function like how people expect them to function.

I'm just waiting for the following:

-they are removing alignment completely from the game

-the gods are no longer a requirement for a cleric

-vows are gone and paladins never needed a god in the first place

-a section in the PHB and DMG about checking your white privilege, how to be welcoming at the table, and why you should pay special attention to your special black players (they are stupid, help them with the dice and make them feel welcome /leftard racist)

-slavery is removed from the game, it never exists

-a new stronger worded statement about how all older versions of D&D is racist and how some elements of 5E is racist and we'll do even better

-a new spell casting system tied to your level based on mana points like Diablo but "funner!"

-triger warnings, trigger warnings everywhere, you get a trigger warning, she gets a trigger warning, look under your seats you get a trigger warning /Oprah

I bet at 3 of the crap above will be in 6E, as trolly as they look, its coming, just wait.

[Mistwell]

"Hey people who have extreme anti-WOTC bias these days, what's the reaction to this new WOTC thing that you're seeing" is going to get you a very predictable response.

Mind you, when asked about 5e on an anti-WOTC board back in 2013 (not this one), people there claimed the game would be vaporware. Literally they claimed it would never be released. Confidently and repeatedly.

If you want to know what the general reaction is to the playtest, this is NOT the place to ask.

[Mistwell]

They are increasing player power, while not seeming yet to discuss monster power.

They have not gotten to the monsters yet. They said that. They are absolutely getting to monsters.

[SHARK]

Greetings!

Well, the vast majrity of my friends believe that WOTC should burn in napalm, and that the new ONE D&D is worthless and should die a horrible death as well. A few of my "Normie" gamer friends, as I have discussed in other threads, while not always very up on the politics of WOTC, even they, too, have heard that WOTC did the OGL BS, and has gone WOKE. So, even my "Normie" ganer friends believe that ONE D&D should also burn.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

[Omega]

6e is so far as I have seen getting mostly negative views. With the occasional shill and troll routine claiming "Its not a new edition! Its backwards compatible" which any idiot at a glance can see it is a new edition and is anything but backwards compatible.

This is in no way an A to 2e transition where the changes were relatively small system-wise. A 2e fighter mapped mostly to an AD&D one with a few additions like proficiencies and the shift in the to hit system and so on.

I suspect the resistance will grow as the changes pile up.