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A lesson so many need to learn (lemmy.world)
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[–] Moonguide@ttrpg.network 2 points 19 hours ago

I don't hate 5e, in fact I'd join in as a player very happily, but I wouldn't run it. 5e is geared towards a very specific kind of campaign that I'm not very interested in running.

I'm more of a social campaign with big action sequences kind of DM and Savage Worlds does that perfectly. It is:

  • Classless
  • 3 actions per turn, going over 1 heightens the chance you'll fail on all actions. Players tend to spend less time thinking.
  • Step die instead of d20, easy math.
  • Extremely easy to make homebrew for.
  • Generic, which means it can do any genre (I've done dark fantasy western and high fantasy medieval, next up I'll do dark fantasy cyberpunk hopefully).

I tried to turn 5e into something that fit a cyberpunk setting for about 3 months, before just buying SWADE and being able to run every genre I could imagine from the go.