Andrew J. Luther
It’s all just a game
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I couldn’t help the long post…
I haven’t bought anything D&D since, well, a few days before Christmas.
I mean, my son asked for a few books on DnDBeyond for Christmas, I wasn’t gonna say no.
Thinking back to 2014, I was completely uninterested in 5E. Literally nothing I heard about it sounded worth the investment in a new edition. I mean, all the buzz said they were going back and embracing the play style of older editions, and I had original AD&D and B/X right there.
I didn’t even look at it until late 2019 when one of my son’s friends got the starter kit for his birthday and asked me to teach them how to play. So I downloaded the basic rules and read them over and thought it was okay. Not amazing, but okay.
And then the pandemic happened. And my son asked me to run a weekly online 5E game for him and his friends so they could do that together.
So I bought the book bundle on DnDBeyond and started a campaign for them. And since the online tools worked rather well, I got a second online game going for my own friends who are scattered all over and can rarely gather all in one place.
My son’s game ran two years, and my “old man” game will hit four years in May.
But, having run a pretty old-school campaign in 5E (using the Majestic Wilderlands books that robertsconley remastered), I’m now hitting my D&D limit.
I’m going to wrap up this campaign in a few months and move over to a modern occult espionage game using Mythras, and it’s quite possible I may never return to a level-based game again.
And now that I know I’m moving on, there will be no more WotC purchases for me. And probably no more D&D-related purchases from anyone.
It’s weird to think I’ll probably never run another D&D campaign. It’s been more than four decades.
I haven’t bought anything D&D since, well, a few days before Christmas.
I mean, my son asked for a few books on DnDBeyond for Christmas, I wasn’t gonna say no.
Thinking back to 2014, I was completely uninterested in 5E. Literally nothing I heard about it sounded worth the investment in a new edition. I mean, all the buzz said they were going back and embracing the play style of older editions, and I had original AD&D and B/X right there.
I didn’t even look at it until late 2019 when one of my son’s friends got the starter kit for his birthday and asked me to teach them how to play. So I downloaded the basic rules and read them over and thought it was okay. Not amazing, but okay.
And then the pandemic happened. And my son asked me to run a weekly online 5E game for him and his friends so they could do that together.
So I bought the book bundle on DnDBeyond and started a campaign for them. And since the online tools worked rather well, I got a second online game going for my own friends who are scattered all over and can rarely gather all in one place.
My son’s game ran two years, and my “old man” game will hit four years in May.
But, having run a pretty old-school campaign in 5E (using the Majestic Wilderlands books that robertsconley remastered), I’m now hitting my D&D limit.
I’m going to wrap up this campaign in a few months and move over to a modern occult espionage game using Mythras, and it’s quite possible I may never return to a level-based game again.
And now that I know I’m moving on, there will be no more WotC purchases for me. And probably no more D&D-related purchases from anyone.
It’s weird to think I’ll probably never run another D&D campaign. It’s been more than four decades.