No I've been in there from the start and I can't play dungeons and dragons anymore. All it feels like is 75% of play time is taken up by combat, which is just me scrambling to come up with what to do because the battlefield changed right before my turn or it's just me mindlessly rolling to attack. It's for that reason I don't like large games, I have no interest in being a foot solider in someone else's fun, and I'm not very vocal, especially in large groups of people I'm not familiar with.
Even more is that I cannot give a single shit about Tolkien fantasy anymore, there is nothing you can do in dnd to escape kings, goblins, fighters, elves and alignment based gods. You could make an entirely new setting and players will still pick the default stuff with the default baggage because they are in the core. It doesn't matter if you make how you try to hack it and turn it into something it's not, it will always have that 70s wargame DNA that I detest because wargaming to me just feels like a waste of time, a competition between who rolls better or minimaxed better.
I feel like there thousands of possibilities of stories and adventures, I don't want to waste what little free time I have fighting goblins in the woods for 1d10+4 gold pieces, scaled up to infinity.
No I've been in there from the start and I can't play dungeons and dragons anymore. All it feels like is 75% of play time is taken up by combat, which is just me scrambling to come up with what to do because the battlefield changed right before my turn or it's just me mindlessly rolling to attack. It's for that reason I don't like large games, I have no interest in being a foot solider in someone else's fun, and I'm not very vocal, especially in large groups of people I'm not familiar with.
Even more is that I cannot give a single shit about Tolkien fantasy anymore, there is nothing you can do in dnd to escape kings, goblins, fighters, elves and alignment based gods. You could make an entirely new setting and players will still pick the default stuff with the default baggage because they are in the core. It doesn't matter if you make how you try to hack it and turn it into something it's not, it will always have that 70s wargame DNA that I detest because wargaming to me just feels like a waste of time, a competition between who rolls better or minimaxed better.
I feel like there thousands of possibilities of stories and adventures, I don't want to waste what little free time I have fighting goblins in the woods for 1d10+4 gold pieces, scaled up to infinity.
Fair enough