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What is the Best WOTC Edition of D&D?

Started by Jam The MF, August 09, 2022, 11:53:42 PM

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Philotomy Jurament

#30
August 11, 2022, 12:28:46 PM Last Edit: August 11, 2022, 01:36:58 PM by Philotomy Jurament
Quote from: Eric Diaz on August 11, 2022, 10:13:32 AM
Well, the OC asked "If you were going to play a WOTC Edition, which one would it be?", so I am thinking OGL and derivative games do not count...

Good point. In that case, I'd probably choose 3.0 for a D&D-ish game, but I'd house-rule it to change or eliminate feats and probably some other misc. stuff. Or maybe 5e with a bunch of exclusions and house rules.  Either way I'd be house ruling a lot.

If D&D-ish wasn't a concern I might choose 4e. It's not at all the game I'd run when I want D&D, but if considered as its own separate thing it's a solid game system.
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#31
August 11, 2022, 01:40:58 PM
Quote from: Jam The MF on August 09, 2022, 11:53:42 PM
If you were going to play a WOTC Edition, which one would it be?

I wouldn't. They're all shit.

Although I'd have given a Saga Edition five minutes.
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thedungeondelver

#32
August 14, 2022, 12:15:22 AM
5e, probably.

It's dead simple.  Hell, I can run an AD&D character in a 5e game without changing a single thing.
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Lord Dynel

#33
August 14, 2022, 07:10:20 PM
Quote from: Leonidas on August 11, 2022, 01:40:58 PM
Quote from: Jam The MF on August 09, 2022, 11:53:42 PM
If you were going to play a WOTC Edition, which one would it be?

I wouldn't. They're all shit.

Although I'd have given a Saga Edition five minutes.

I still think about converting Saga Edition to a fantasy game (I know a few people tried, but I wasn't impressed).  If 4e would have been a copy of Saga, I might be still playing it.  I am still playing Saga, so there ya go...

Zelen

#34
August 15, 2022, 10:27:30 PM
If I had to choose a specific edition of WOTC D&D to run a game with, I'd choose 5E.

However, this is a pretty poor endorsement. The only reason why most people here & elsewhere prefer 5E is because it simply has the fewest rules. When I run a game I can build off of the basic skeleton in a way that suits me more easily than I can with 3E or 4E.

zircher

#35
August 15, 2022, 11:15:47 PM
Yeah, D20 Modern or Star Wars Saga Edition are only ones that I even own.  I never bothered with any of their D&D shit.
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#36
August 16, 2022, 02:05:14 AM
Quote from: Lord Dynel on August 14, 2022, 07:10:20 PM
I still think about converting Saga Edition to a fantasy game (I know a few people tried, but I wasn't impressed).  If 4e would have been a copy of Saga, I might be still playing it.  I am still playing Saga, so there ya go...

Lord Dynel,

I know there's Fantasy Concepts Campaign Resource, but I don't own it.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/3066/Samardan-Press/subcategory/5350_5358/Fantasy-Concepts

I've also seen fan versions, but they weren't that great. The problem is that the Jedi does not convert well into a magic user (way too powerful) and they tried to make the Scoundrel a pirate (I guess because they both have ships?)

Shrieking Banshee

#37
August 16, 2022, 10:06:50 AM
Saga is solid but it has the opposite issue of Rocket tag at higher levels.

The Spaniard

#38
August 16, 2022, 05:17:09 PM
I'm not a fan of any of them, but core 5E I guess.

Palleon

#39
August 16, 2022, 08:11:31 PM
5E free basic rules PDF.  Everything else is bloated nonsense.

Katowice

#40
August 23, 2022, 12:05:43 AM
I just download the Basic Rules from their website for use in my 5E compatible games like Beowulf, Adventures in Middle-Earth and Ruins of Symbaroum.

Banjo Destructo

#42
August 23, 2022, 11:27:29 AM
I think 3.5 is the one I'm most familiar with, it's probably my favorite.  I also like variations people have made to it, like E6, where characters get to "epic level" at level 6, and stop gaining Hit Dice and their power growth slows down after level 6.

Abraxus

#43
August 23, 2022, 12:16:08 PM
5E followed by 3.5.

Hzilong

#44
August 23, 2022, 05:32:40 PM
Much as we rag on WotC, I do think 5e was actually a good game when it was in the first couple years. The errata and terrible new publications make it worse, but you can still find the older prints I'm pdf form. So 5e is probably their best edition.

3.5 was good, but I found it was not particularly smooth to use.

Finally, 4e is a good game. I stand by that. It is, however, not a good D&D game. If it had been marketed as a spinoff and 3.5 support continued, there probably would not have been the implosion we saw. Granted, it's probably a good thing that D&D as a brand collapsed for a while as it spawned pathfinder and allowed other games to get. Foothold in the market.
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