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Anonymous01/24/26, 07:55No.97432489please give any one reason why I should play anything other than dnd5e?
I mean it's a perfect game and easily modifiedable. Why should i learn an entirely new system when this stuff just works. what makes it worthwhile to play another game? If there any recommendations, feel free to tell me what's a good game.
>d20 system. literally the perfect mechanics
>want to do scifi? change the melee weapons to lightsabers etc.
>want do do horror? curse of stradh is already there. just copy the vibes
>like 5e is insanely hombrewable and easy to play
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Anon01/24/26, 07:57No.97432492
It's shit
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Anon01/24/26, 07:58No.97432494
You are correct, there is no argument here.
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Anon01/24/26, 08:00No.97432497
If you're playing a wizard, it's fine, maybe even good.If you're playing a f*ghter, well, that depends on how many magic items the DM gives you. Or, gods forbid, you actually have to fight multiple encounters between short rests. In which case you might as well replace the wizards with warlocks.
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Anon01/24/26, 08:01No.97432499
It's bad, Monte Cook worked on it.
Why don't you go and play something else revolutionary and creative like Numenera by Monte Cook?
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Anon01/24/26, 08:02No.97432505
If you want a easily modifiable TTRPG. You would want to play "X" Without Number Series. As they have Fantasy (Worlds), Sci-Fi (Stars), Cyberpunk (Cities), and they just made Post-Apocalyptic (Ashes). Has a ton of homebrew/3rd Party like 5e. Plus better mechanics compare to 5e and way better than 5.5/ONE.
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Anon01/24/26, 08:08No.97432530
implying i should give you any reasons, stay the fuck there and don't move until you die
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Anon01/24/26, 08:40No.97432600
I know this is a bait thread but for anons fresh into the hobby the reasons might be
trying a game with different procedures, loops and feel
You can start expanding your horizon with leveless games that bloat your HP
And classless games for a horizontal progressionFor example it's pretty self evident that D&D is shit in covering most genres that aren't heroic because of HP bloat
If your seasoned veteran you've been playing for a year can still die to a single machinegun burst you aren't going to play the same way you play D&D
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Anon01/24/26, 08:47No.97432616
/tg/ will like you better.
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Anon01/24/26, 09:21No.97432691
You could play AD&D 1e.
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Anon01/24/26, 11:28No.97432981
You shouldn't! Please stay in your containment.
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Anon01/24/26, 12:29No.97433110
Don't leave the cave. The light will damage your eyes, and once you get used to it you won't be able to enjoy your shadow puppet show.
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Anon01/24/26, 12:36No.97433138
> it's a perfect game
It ain’t.
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Anon01/24/26, 12:38No.97433149
>change the melee weapons to lightsabers
That's not sci-fi that's fantasy in space
>just copy the vibes
I mean if you all you care about is the vibes then you don't need a ttrpg in the first place, just write stories or some shit
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Anon01/24/26, 12:50No.97433166
It's a perfectly fine game played wrongly. It should be played as a dungeon crawler with several trap and combat encounters before the player characters get to do a long rest, but it somehow became the domain of a crowd that just wants to roleplay their exotic character discovering they are trans and ending racism while engaging in a gay romance.
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Anon01/24/26, 13:01No.97433194
It's almost exclusively a combat system, if your game doesn't revolve around combat it makes little sense to use 5e.
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Anon01/24/26, 13:06No.97433205
Real reason why anybody should? Imagine playing only one video game forever. Or staying inside your house forever because you're too scared to try anything new or scary. There are systems that are even easier and even more customizable. Convenience for the sake of it, ruins your sense of wonder. Which is ironic, because you're suppose to be going on adventures when you play D&D.
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Anon01/24/26, 14:37No.97433513
I know it's bait but whatever:>d20 system. literally the perfect mechanics
5e d20 is literally the shittiest permutation of it, combining bounded accuracy with linear attribute modifiers progression and minute proficiency bonuses could be described as the most retarded implementation of the d20sys ever attempted.>want to do scifi? change the melee weapons to lightsabers etc.
Your plasma powered sword that should melt fucking metal still makes 1d8+str dmg and doubles it on a crit just like a common steel sword? Cool, what about vibroblades? Monomolecular blades?>want do do horror? curse of stradh is already there. just copy the vibes
Vibes are the garnish and if not reinforced mechanically get forgotten immediately. Lets say your character accidentally kill his innocent friend when trying to catch an horrific doppelganger, you can roleplay his desperation and act brooding for a while but your character is essentially the fucking same. Using a game that reinforces trauma mechanically (eg: sanity, stains, shadow, corruption, etc...) reinforces that state down to mechanical interactions, elevating the theme of the game.>like 5e is insanely hombrewable and easy to play
Nope, it's no less homebrewdable than others and the "easier to play" cope is due to the fuckload of ready-to-go tool associated with it (eg: vtts, beyond, srd), which has nothing to do with the rulesystem per se.
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Anon01/24/26, 14:46No.97433539
Exquisite b8. I was gonna reply in earnest. You almost got me.
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Anon01/24/26, 14:56No.97433570
You shouldn't. In fact, you shouldn't even look for any other games, nor interact with their players/GMs in any way.
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Anon01/24/26, 15:00No.97433579
Bait aside, if you like a hobby and not just 5e, you should be willing to explore more than a single system. I like tabletop, so I try more systems than 5e. If you only like 5e that's fine, but you're basically admitting you don't like the hobby as a whole, just 5e. So stay to your containment game if that's your viewpoint and never grow or experience new things other than new set dressing. You have every right to do so, but don't pretend there's some objective truth that will sway you when you're clearly going to play contrarian at every opportunity.
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Anon01/24/26, 15:53No.97433770
This
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Anon01/24/26, 15:55No.97433775
Meh, it's a dumbed down take on 3e which itself had a frankly obscene amount of different games made because of the d20 system being OGL.To be perfectly fair, despite other systems being better overall, I honestly understand why some people just stick with something they know and has a shit load of content for.
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Anon01/24/26, 16:03No.97433818
Don't worry about it OP, play what you enjoy. :)
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Anon01/24/26, 21:36No.97435275
>Fishfag is back at it
For anyone who wants to see the fine work of an autist at graft, check the archive for "ACKS Worst Game"
Here, I'll even give you the link;
https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/search/text/ACKS%20Worst%20game/For everyone looking for a recommendation - ACKS is a baller game and don't let the seething subhumanoid tell you otherwise. A system that actually respects that your characters are going to grow in power and influence to the point where they're not just wandering fucktards is a game worth playing.
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Anon01/24/26, 22:56No.97435684
Your friends want to try something else and instead of being a cunt all your life you give whatever they want to play a fair shake, you learn the rules, make a character, and play in good faith.
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Anon01/24/26, 23:25No.97435819
What are the stats of a land vehicle?Why should one instance of advantage entirely cancel out 2,000 debuffs giving disadvantage?Do you ever want to play a martial?
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Anon01/25/26, 20:33No.97440625
It's too video gamey to the point where people say dumb shit like "i use my action surge" instead of "i slash at the troll with my axe"
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Anon01/25/26, 20:38No.97440650
Because the company that makes it tries to steal other people's work. If you're okay with your hard work being stolen and making money for that company, great.It's a reason, which is what you asked for.
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Anon01/25/26, 20:45No.97440667
I don't care what you play. I'm not your mom.Thank the Lord for that.
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Anon01/25/26, 20:51No.97440688
I agree, OP. You should stick with D&D 5e. It's the perfect game for you.
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Anon01/25/26, 21:03No.97440747
>I mean it's a perfect game and easily modifiedable
Perfect is an impossibility, and any game is easily modifiable>Why should i learn an entirely new system when this stuff just works.
All games work, they just happen to work differently than what you claim is perfect. in your misguided opinion.>what makes it worthwhile to play another game?
Depends on the games you like playing, which are based on your arguably silly opinion.>If there any recommendations, feel free to tell me what's a good game.
Your standards are so abysmally low that any game you try would actually be good if you weren't so lazy you never played anything but 5e.
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Anon01/26/26, 10:10No.97443452
>"I like chocolate ice cream and only eat those"
>"Strawberry, lemon and mint are also tasty, give them a try"
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Anon01/26/26, 10:31No.97443490
It's fun learning new systems and experimenting. 5e just feels underwhelming after you play a campaign or two
>something something wide as an ocean deep as a puddle
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Anon01/26/26, 10:35No.97443499
>Any given thread, any topic
>Actually ACKS slap-fighting
You faggots are unbearable. Both the shills and the morons who engage them
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Anon01/26/26, 10:51No.97443541
It has a wide variety of issues that have never been corrected.
>There are many d20 games that accomplish what it is doing but better.
>The original claim before release was that 5e was going back more towards the 1e/2e style, but it does not really commit to that. It fulfills neither the build autism of 3.5e or the more open but set class playstyle of those early editions.
>Many options feel like traps or worse versions of other options. It is the illusion of choice presented as an option.
>Some classes are much more favored than others.
>Despite this lack of choice or depth, DMing 5e is awful. It is harder to come up with encounters on the fly for the most part, especially when compared to earlier editions.
>The game does not handle dark fantasy or grittier, more lethal gameplay well.
>Many features that probably should have been in the main rulebooks or some expansion books are spread so far apart in so many different books that it is a pain to figure out what comes form where.
>The popularity of 5e has just made most people writing a setting guide, even for settings or certain game styles where 5e does not work well, just make it for 5e instead of a more fitting system.
>The popularity of it has made convincing other people to try something else difficult.
The artwork and lore flavor of the settings has just gotten more sterile over time. Every single edge or quirk has been filed off to basically make the game the equivalent of a neutered buffy mixed with drama club fantasy.
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Anon01/26/26, 10:55No.97443563
Because it's a terrible game, as you'd realize if you tried literally any other system.
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Anon01/26/26, 11:05No.97443586
3.5 exists with a shit ton of supplementals. It can be tweaked, you can backport some of the things you lkke in 5e and it offers massive character customization. It is a good base to build whatevee you want with it.
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Anon01/26/26, 14:36No.97444239
>If there any recommendations, feel free to tell me what's a good game.
No. Stay there. Stay in 5e. Stick to what you know. Never grow, never change. You found the perfect system so there's no reason to venture beyond that blessed coast. Stay there. Never leave - in fact, encourage your friends to never leave, too. Let them stay and play with you.Christ, don't play something else.
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Anon01/26/26, 14:44No.97444277
Variety and learning new different rulesets is good for you psychologically and maintains mental plasticity into old age. While there is merit to having a clear goal and a game that achieves that, expanding or shifting goals once you've figured that out keeps you from stagnating as a human. Its not hard to keep up, doesn't have to be learning rocket appliances, but reading and practising new things is quite beneficial.
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Anon01/26/26, 19:50No.97445985
you shouldn't. please stay on the wotc plantation and never branch out to better games. 5etards don't belong in the rest of the hobby space. stay in your play pen.
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Anon01/26/26, 19:58No.97446031
>/x/obsessed tripfag who's only been on the site 50 days and has eight (8) posts on /tg/
>expecting to not get shit onSo did mommy hug you too much or not enough, loserfaggot?
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Anon01/26/26, 20:04No.97446069
Because you should play ACKS.
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Anon01/26/26, 21:33No.97446570
>Has retreated from "There are gay ops run on the secrete ACKSlluminati discord" to "ACKS has a discord, QED"
Lol, get fucked.
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Anon01/26/26, 22:54No.97446967
You have a IQ above room temperature
>d20 system. literally the perfect mechanics
For basic attacks sure.
>want to do scifi? change the melee weapons to lightsabers etc.
Room temperature IQ take
>want do do horror? curse of stradh is already there. just copy the vibes
>the vibes
>vibes
NGMI
>like 5e is insanely hombrewable
About as much as any other ttrpg
>and easy to play
Yet incredibly shallow
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Anon01/26/26, 23:57No.97447244
>Toast mad at people who like bagels.
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Anon01/27/26, 00:02No.97447275
>Fishfag is running gayops in the ACKS server
Every accusation is a confession.
By his own admission.
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Anon01/27/26, 01:11No.97447529
It's locked in to being a fantasy game, confined by the class/level system where you unlock abilities at certain levels. It's also combat oriented so playing say a group of traveling merchants or a less combat oriented campaign like a horror or mystery would not run well because of it.It's also not modular by which i mean you can add elements to make it the way you want to like giant robots makes it hard to make the campaign you really want with the elements you want to add to it. After a while a lot of the campaigns and characters start going pretty much the same way.
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Anon01/27/26, 03:19No.97448126
Why is the dragon's face so crooked? At first I thought it was the retarded nonsence lighting, but no. If you compare the dragons eyes to snout, to the rest of it's skull, it's clearly crooked.
The rest of the image after looking at the larger version is a mess too. I hate what they did with the chromatic dragon's artwork redesign. Looks like some generic junk commissioned off of artstation instead of something classic or iconic.
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Anon01/27/26, 05:28No.97448662
It's designed for a particular style of game. And if you enjoy that, then there's no issue.
But since you're playing DnD at least play the best version of it --and play the original game. welcome to [/tg/thread/97428414#p97428414]
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Anon01/27/26, 10:00No.97449377
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Anon01/27/26, 14:53No.97450404
Still waiting on all of this supposed amusing discord raid evidence.Crazy how he will make these claims and then when you ask for evidence he will just tell you that you're delusional
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Anon01/28/26, 03:35No.97454943
OP here, we tried running a different game for last sunday and I picked up dungeon crawl classics. our expectations were low at the start. Ran a funnel and then after that we extended the session when the players got to level 1. all of my players asked to put the current dnd campaign on hold and continue with this. It was real crazy shit.
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Anon01/28/26, 04:47No.97455200
We are using the quick start rules
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Anon01/28/26, 04:50No.97455210
current state of the game is shit, but 5e in itself is not a bad system, just needs to be polished. it heavyly rely on homebrew/community stuff to have good and more content but also that's it main strenght. there's so many players and so much content about it, so many groups available and willing to teach each other how to play, one can learn to play by social osmosis, but it's not even near to being one of the easiest games and it's also one of the most expensive if you want to DM and have an experience above "whiteboard marker on a grided plastic sheet and paper minis"
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Anon01/28/26, 16:00No.97457939
it's fine, my only gripe is that too many races have darkvision, and that the selection of backgrounds is super limited
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Anon01/28/26, 17:38No.97458480
Our group tried daggerheart and it was fine for like 10 sessions. But the general vibe-based nature of it killed it. Outside of combat it was okay, but frankly any system outside of combat would be the fucking same. Combat though is a total mess, you are supposed to just vibe it. Even while we did the three fights in it, we just naturally did rounds with everyone getting a turn. Why? Oh you're close-minded and DnD-brained, just vibe! No, fuck you, we did it because it was so much fucking easier to go one by one instead of "Well, I do... No I do... You punched that guy 2 times already..." Fear tokens are also a retarded idea. They were designed to break the player flow and give monsters a turn at any time, creating even more confusion about what's happening. Combat ranges not expressed in actual distances is the dumbest most retarded brained decision they could have made too. And dice bloat too. Two dices are maybe cool and fun, but gets exhausting. Also! You need to keep track of so much shit. Hope, Stress, Armor points on top of regular HP. And it changes every time a dice rolls. It all just gets too tedious.