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d&d 5e is a fine system, it's just more than i want to gm and more than my friends want to learn. so simpler systems like shadowdark or black hack are really great for us, but if your group knows d&d 5e and has fun playing it, than why the hell not just play 5e?
I play 5e, but:
I feel that the reason people are hating on 5e is not because the system is bad, it is almost exclusively because Wizards and Hasbro tried to fuck everyone over.
There might be certain systems that some people subjectively prefer because they do certain things in a way they prefer, but that literally doesn't matter, that is subjective. DnD5e is practically a house name at this point. It is popular and well regarded, especially by new players. Anyone who wants to make the claim that the system is bad will have bang their subjective arguments against the steel wall that is its popularity.
So that is to say... the reason to not play 5e is because it's important to punish WotC and Hasbro, and it's important to support rising publishers.
alexanderthedead@lemmy.world said in A lesson so many need to learn: > Anyone who wants to make the claim that the system is bad will have bang their subjective arguments against the steel wall that is its popularity.
Yes, but this is a thing that people want to do. They want to try and dent that popularity, and they want to shift some of it towards their own preferences. It doesn't matter that it's a subjective opinion on what is better or what is bad, it doesn't feel subjective to the person interjecting.
They believe their preferred game is better, they probably have had this discussion numerous times with people who have ignored them or chewed them out for trying to evangelize, and they are infinitely frustrated that others won't see the light.
People who leave popular things behind for niche things often just have this habit of having to bury the thing they left behind. It can't be good. The new thing is better, but the new thing is better both because it is better, and also because the old thing was just objectively bad.
People do this with a lot of things. TV shows, ice cream flavours, toys they used to play with as kids. There's a sense of shame attached to having liked the old thing, not just a sense of joy of having found the new one. It's one of the reasons the people they evangelize to get so defensive: They can sense that they are being judged.
Exactly! Play the system everyone wants to play.
I'd love to give Shadowrun a shot at my current table, but nobody else wants it so we settled on Cyberpunk RED. I'm GM, so I can port most of the stuff I like from SR to RED. Everybody wins!