tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1801483473113363785.post8276845249623418204..comments2023-05-12T05:10:20.941-04:00Comments on Raven Crowking's Nest: If You Have Nothing Nice to Say, Better to Say Nothingravencrowkinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09315630554847698555noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1801483473113363785.post-62555285815374496312014-07-10T10:07:31.777-04:002014-07-10T10:07:31.777-04:00Daniel, thanks for this post. It inspired me to p...Daniel, thanks for this post. It inspired me to post about my likes and dislikes over all editions of D&D. My post seems focused on the negative, but I'm keeping up. At the risk of link-whoring, here's the short URL: http://wp.me/p49gr9-p6 Thanks for the great posts, as always.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05428030234227294650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1801483473113363785.post-58580530186452132232014-07-08T23:58:09.957-04:002014-07-08T23:58:09.957-04:00"We each have a voice and we each have option..."We each have a voice and we each have options."<br /><br />As it should be.ravencrowkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09315630554847698555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1801483473113363785.post-88227876684248374512014-07-08T23:42:00.322-04:002014-07-08T23:42:00.322-04:00I feel the game has way too much and easily access...I feel the game has way too much and easily accessed recovery of HP and a constant supply of magic to effectively support the claim it let's you play just like the old days. I pretty much if not outright said as much on my blog and haven't gained any abuse for saying such. Over on a forum I visit occasionally I got a little grief for that view but no decent counter argument has been presented beyond... "you can house rule the parts you don't like away". We each have a voice and we each have options.JDJarvishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07691101939920824546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1801483473113363785.post-76067873901138486082014-07-08T23:16:45.514-04:002014-07-08T23:16:45.514-04:00After the initial "Wow. This is much better t...After the initial "Wow. This is much better than I thought!" 5e has left me sort of indifferent. I would play it, but I wouldn't go out of my way to, and there are other things I would rather run.ravencrowkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09315630554847698555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1801483473113363785.post-26275383684246299202014-07-08T23:15:09.372-04:002014-07-08T23:15:09.372-04:00I said it with 3.5, I said in with 4e, and I am sa...I said it with 3.5, I said in with 4e, and I am saying it again with 5e: Don't let other people tell you what you can, or cannot, talk about with any game. You get to add your part to the conversation. People may choose not to listen, but that is on them, not you.ravencrowkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09315630554847698555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1801483473113363785.post-73893691607082901522014-07-08T23:13:18.538-04:002014-07-08T23:13:18.538-04:00I came not to praise 5e, or to bury it, but merely...I came not to praise 5e, or to bury it, but merely to say, "Don't let people telling you to shut up prevent you from telling us what you think, good or bad." <br /><br />Regardless of whether you like or hate 5e, I think it is a good thing that the TSR-era pdfs are available again, and that the new edition has turned in the direction I think it should have gone, if not as far as I would have liked it to have gone. <br /><br />But, frankly, DCC is a pretty cool version of The Game, and 5e would have to offer something amazing in order to displace it. 5e falls quite a bit short of amazing, from where I sit.ravencrowkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09315630554847698555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1801483473113363785.post-57460803544242745052014-07-08T21:25:15.994-04:002014-07-08T21:25:15.994-04:00It doesn't suck. It's better than 3.0. It...It doesn't suck. It's better than 3.0. It's still not much of a game. I don't hate it. Honestly, I don't hate Wizards. If it becomes a staple of the gaming community, I will play it. If it becomes a niche item, I'll stick with b/x and making up my own games and clones. <br /><br />I was ready to hate it. I was ready to love it. It's... Okay. That, I was not ready for. Scott Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12067161332003628237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1801483473113363785.post-14477230484597790042014-07-08T20:25:42.521-04:002014-07-08T20:25:42.521-04:00"There are some real problems with the free B..."There are some real problems with the free Basic PDF, though, in terms of what I want from a game. I would find these easy to fix, if other games did not make that unnecessary." That's the key point for me. Is it a move in the right direction, for me, totally. But there is still so much about it that I'd want to change... that I might as well stick with systems that are already a lot closer to what I want. <br />Saying that, in certain places, has already gotten me called a 'hater'... and once again the zealous fans of something push me even farther away than my original inclinations. Timmy Crabcakeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14737954661234574830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1801483473113363785.post-39122928894444849242014-07-08T18:53:04.435-04:002014-07-08T18:53:04.435-04:00"It is my understanding that they have declar..."It is my understanding that they have declared that 5e is going to be a 'living edition' that will continue to change and grow because WotC will continue to listen."<br /><br />Translated, I think that means tons of splat books. Sort of the way 2e was a "living edition".<br /><br />Oh well. I agree with you that this is the best of the three WotC versions of D&D (not a very high bar in my opinion). But my hatred of WotC is pretty much set at this point, and 5e doesn't offer me anything I can't get from the TSR editions (besides being in the stores RIGHT NOW) or the many much superior OSR games. So I'm going to sit this one out. You guys enjoy though.TheShadowKnowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11073693648569864707noreply@blogger.com