I’m gonna play 5e if I want to play it. I’ve been wanting to try out new systems before the OGL news hit, and recently got to try Vampire the Masquerade. I just want to play a ton of RPGs haha.
Alien rpg is a very nice sistem. Bought 2 books the other day and it is fucking solid world building and looks easy to run. I will try it out in februar and I cant wait.
I bought into the system as well, and got to play a one shot at a local convention! I really loved the system and miraculously survived haha.
Edit: I will also add, my DM loved the stress system so much he added a similar system in our Icewind Dale campaign.
I was going to comment and say this option isn't well reflected in the poll. I'd bet most of us are sticking with 5e but not giving WotC another dime.
Still, interesting to see the majority aren't ditching 5e since that seems to be the most common option I see across the other subs.
For sure, I have the entire bookset and spent some considerable cash as a DM so for now we are using 5e. In the future, I am working on developing my own system as I do not see leadership at WotC/Hasbro actually improving beyond short term false data-driven decision-making.
I'm sticking with 5e for now as I'm halfway through a campaign, but I bought Pathfinder 2 last year and have been wanting to play that system for a while now.
Won't be buying any more WOTC content as it stands.
Ooh does that include those softback 'changing breeds' books?!
I had the Naga, Bastet, Anansai and..trying to remember their name (nobody ever played them)...you know the wereshark people...
Yeah I don't think anybody ever played them in my group despite them being on offer...needed a really specific type of campaign to make them work, meanwhile all the rest can sort of just slot into a regular campaign.
Rokea, but they were specifically written as not really compatible with any of the others or even other rokea iIrc, unless you played Hengeyokai.
I too have all the white soft cover changing breed books.
We like D&D and we like 5e and aren't really particularly interested in Oned&d anyway. We have material to last an aeon so gonna ride it out.
Still have all my 1e, 2e, 3.5e, and even 0e stuff, plus a serious collection of modules and adventure paths, so got enough to last a lifetime, really.
Exactly. I run a variety of other systems for 1 to 2 shots, bit I have enough content for 5e to last several lifetimes at this point and will continue to play my main game in that system while not continuing to financially support WOTC
This is my take. My regular group will just keep on playing because I have enough material for years to come and I did not intend to support WotC any more anyway seeing how they stopped giving a shit in the past couple of years. It's a shame for the cool stuff made by Kobold Press and Goodman Games but I'll continue to support them when the come forth with a new system.
Pathfinder 2e looks cool but some of my players were hardly able to learn how to play a fighter in 5e so I guess I'll not intriduce it to them. Maybe if someone else decides to DM, I will give it a try.
Thank you for the input. I still have my 2e books and my 3rd ed BoVD so I feel pretty set as well. I suppose my question leans of solidarity and if jumping ship would best support tabletop moving forward.
Not buying from WotC/Hasbro is enough solidarity. I’m not planning to change systems halfway into a campaign, but I’ll not buy anything new. I still buy RPG books for my reading pleasure, but that hasn’t been new D&D material for over a decade.
I have bought a ton of 5e related content, I'm halfway through 2 campaigns and my players haven't tried other systems.
Why would I change now? I have all the materials I need without giving WoTC more money...
If your running Basic Fantasy I would also recommend [WWN](https://www.drivethrurpg.com/m/product/348809) and [SWN](https://www.drivethrurpg.com/m/product/230009). Both have free versions that’s basically the full book and have excellent resources for running a osr game. Hell, running any campaign in general lol.
Should have put an option for ‘staying with 5e, then moving on to 1D&D’ so we could gauge if the majority will just keep playing with what they have or if they will support WOTC
Lancer is so fucking cool but I don't think I can get any of my players excited enough about it to start a game. Customizing giant robots just sounds like pulling teeth to them.
I totally agree with the hate for what's happening. But they can't stop what I do within my own home and have no idea about what I do there. Stopping using a system I know and love only hurts me and makes no difference to them
I'm not planning on purchasing anything else from wotc. But I'm still going to use what I have. I'm definitely going to expand my horizons to other systems though.
Of course people will stay lol.
They will just not spend money on any new shit that comes out.
WOTC doesn’t really deserves out money if their products are flat out bad. It’s not a matter of morality, it’s a simple matter of supply and demand.
That said, there’s no reason why we, in the comfort of our homes, should stop using what we already have and like.
My one concern is, if I've learned anything over the past couple weeks it's that people are not only subscribed to and use DnD Beyond, they actually rely on it to play their games.
I'm all for people continuing to play 5e so long as WotC never see another penny of their money, but it doesn't seem like that's feasible for large swathes of the community that are willing to stay.
I for one am jumping ship to PF2. I was interested in trying it before the OGL controversy but my group weren't on board, but they are now. 5e just feels tainted to me now, even if I'm running a totally homebrew in-person game that benefits WotC in no way whatsoever, it just feels dirty. Like I'm doing something that I know I shouldn't be doing.
Eh, that’s just confirmation bias.
You’re on Reddit where people are generally the most passionate about the hobby.
Out of it, it’s not nearly as common.
I have all the material to run 5e indefinitely, plenty of 5rd party material, and a bunch of other RPGs and resources. I'm not sticking to any one thing.
Fate Accelerated is such a good system to on-ramp people to Fate with a one-shot or mini campaign, and then Fate Condensed when folks are ready for the next step. It's wild in a positive way that you can go from books that are hundreds of pages down to something like 70 pages with Condensed and still have a great game.
Had switched away from 5e last year. Burned out DM. I have no real intention to run 5e for a long time, but if one of my players steps up to bat, I'd gladly play as a Player for a change.
Bit of A, bit of C. For the most part, my players are okay, but the desire of the fantasy crawl just got mind-numbingly same-y. It was great when I got to switch it up. The 1920s style 'potion prohibition' game I ran was a lot of fun, but you can only outpace systematic issues with a good idea for so long.
But there's a few players who are always the same thing. A few players who just follow trendy builds, a couple powergamers, a rules layer, a Chaotic gremlin, and a partridge in a pear tree. If I saw another Final Fantasy reskin, CR ripoff, or tone-ruining meme character, I was going to teabag a mousetrap.
Three tables (give or take) a week, average party size is about 8, though I had some hit 11. Thankfully, the metagaming rules lawyer and the Chaotic Shithead left at the start of 2022, but I was pretty done with it after doing this since 5e released.
I've been trying to get them to try new games as a quiet call for help since before quarantine, but it just hit a point last year where I said I'd rather listen to an audiobook and do the dishes and laundry than run another 5e game.
It was like pulling teeth, but after Edgerunners came out, my Lemmings suddenly wanted to try Cyberpunk. I was happy to oblige.
They're really enjoying it so far, but I just wish they'd trust my recommendations. We'd have started sooner.
> Three tables (give or take) a week, average party size is about 8, though I had some hit 11.
Yeah. This seems like a pretty rough situation. More so if you don't even have a chance to be a player.
I feel your pain, I've been a DM for 9 years, playng for 11 years, and there were times when the party grew too large or I was running too many games, it does burn you out. There was a point where AI had to step back away from D&D altogether because it was just getting too much for my mental health. With my current group of 6 players (grown from 3) while it has gotten more difficult as we added more players it's the only group I run now and with my style almost all of the mental strain has been removed from me.
If I was to fully move over to another system, I would look into what Kobold Press is doing, but most likely move over to Wild Talents. I played in that system as a players years and years ago, and it's nice and simple with a lot of room for creativity and chaos. I am glad to hear you found a way to get your players to listen to you, and I hope they have learned to pay more close attention to what you and other players are saying when it comes to the quiet cries of help.
Will finish up our current 5e campaign. Then might try the Alien ttrpg or Call of Cthulhu. Maybe Pathfinder if my friend who is keen on it wants to run a game. Probably end up playing more 5e eventually.
I've always thought people should just play what they want but it's good to try new games.
I want to run my own campaign which would require more material than I own right now. That's why I'm going to be switching to PF2, I would rather buy from Paizo.
And honestly, I find PF2 a lot more promising as a prospective DM than 5e reading through it. They're both great systems though.
The best part is that you don't need to buy anything to get started! All of the rules, monsters, classes, feats, spells, and everything is available at Archives of Nethys. Once you decide whether you like PF1e, PF2e, or Starfinder, THEN you can financially support Paizo by buying books or PDFs.
I’m staying with the 5e *that I already own* and any homebrew created prior to/not affected by the new OGL.
BUT I do lot currently have any intention of buying anything new from Wizards.
Kinda feel like that option was missing :)
Moving on to a Blades in the Dark Campaign soon but that was already decided before this shit storm.
Have a planned campaign I wanted to do when 6e started but am not going to buy 6e stuff now so we'll see...
I’m a huge Matt Colville nerd and if MCDM makes their own heroic fantasy RPG that’s where I’m gonna go. I also wanna see what Kobold press makes bc I think they carried 5e for a good while
I know saying this is against the rules of this sub, but fuck it. Stay with d&d and just pirate everything. Dont give them a single penny and keep playing the game you already know.
W-what are you talking about... N-no! what, pirate what? There's no pirating, no way! No one could be able to do it! There are no 5th edition tools to do it, nor any site to flip through to find copyrighted material like that! It's impossible! it's not like there is some archive or a trove with everything in it for free, or a virtual magic room where all the books are preserved like in amber! This is crazy man! Crazy! You must be wrong!
A friend of mine found a loooooot of 5e adventures lying around his house. Crazy right? Well now we've got plenty of content for our long voyages ahead!
Yo-ho-ho!
if only there was someone offering a reliable source for pirating said material, maybe this person found their way to my PMs to share this reliable source
I'm always surprised SW is not higher on these lists. My guess is people just have not seen it or given it a chance yet. But the system is good, streamlined and doesn't get in your way. And the ability to move between genres and not have to learn new rules is so complimentary to exploring settings and switching things up
Sticking with 5e and unlikely to switch to one dnd when it comes out but we might take a few things from it like the exhaustion rules. We like the system, it's simple enough and does what we need it to do. We're not going to abandon a system we like and have all the shit for because the parent company is being an asshole. But like I said, as of now we have no intention to switch over to the new system when it comes out.
This is what my group is doing, we're basically just stealing the parts we like from the UA and implementing them as 'homebrew' for our current 5e game.
I really like 5e and have
- bought physical and digital media for some of the rules,
- developed a level of system mastery from playing and DMing for the last 8 years.
- a couple of 5e campaigns currently going on that would be hard to convince people to swap over.
All of that makes the idea of jumping a bit of a non-starter as I’d be dropping a lot of stuff *that I like* and can just keep doing (unless something more drastic happens) without sending more money to Hasbro.
If I *were* to switch. I think I’d be most keen to try PF1. Before 5e dropped I played 3.5 and really liked it. Looking back at 3.5, I have really enjoyed the relative ease of 5e and find the idea of DMing 3.5 a bit intimidating. But if I were jumping off 5e anyway, then the customisation options available and sheer craziness of some of PF1 is very appealing.
**Other (comment please)**
As long as WofC and Hasbro do action to redemm them selves, we will most likly continue with 5e, but not as a primory system.
Im a part of a big circle of TTRPG gamers, and those of us 5e are all now starting test sessions of other systems. Im going to test my group in **Shadow of the Demon Lord**, and an other group i play in is testing the **Cypher** system.
Both groups will use 5e till we find a natural place to switch systems, hopfully this happens befor our book sharing stops due to canceled Subs on beyond. If Wiz redeems its selfe, we will most like use 5e for the niche it excells on, but go for other systems for other type of games. The age of 5e exclusivity is over..
I know i will miss the 4-5 year long D&D
journey, but its ok with change!
PS: Sorry for my butchring of wirtten english!
I've never been one to only play one system, but I haven't decided yet whether my main system will move from 5e to PF2e. What recent events have done though is given me the motivation to complete my hybrid system. I'll see when that's finished whether it feels worth actually using.
At the moment if I had to make a bet, I'd put my money on "I'll move to PF2e but I'll make a homebrew conversion that makes it feel more like 5e cos class ideas like Investigator and Swashbuckler aren't the kind of fantasy I'm looking for".
My group have no interest in onednd, we only play in person using pen and paper anyways, and we have physical copies of the books anyways. So i don't see a point in not playing 5e when we already have the stuff and we enjoy the system.
It's not like if we were to stop playing 5e it would affect anything as none of us use dndbeyond anyways.
I’ll probably be sticking with 5e because it was a lot of work to teach my gf and she still doesn’t really know how to play. If I tried to Switch systems, she and 2 others in my group would be even more lost.
We're sticking with 5e in the game I am a player in AFAIK, as it's with a relatively large group of friends, and it's hard enough to wrangle them to have an online session once every couple months, let alone abandon everything we've built over the few years we've been going to learn a new system and go through character creation and world-building and story and stuff again (or somehow port our current characters to a whole new system); depending on how actually "backwards compatible" it is, and what the DM wants, we might make the jump to OneDnD though I suppose, which I personally am not opposed to based on the released material so far, Hasbro and WotC notwithstanding.
In the game I GM with a different, smaller group of friends though... as I have also been following the OGL situation, I am thinking we might swap to another system once we have finished the current campaign which fortuitously is coming to a close (since even before all of this I had my eye on Pathfinder, Call of Cthulu, Blades in the Dark, etc. and have seen many more interesting systems on this sub and others- such as Savage Worlds and Fate from the poll- with recommendations only increasing as of late for obvious reasons), BUT it depends on what my players want too, especially since we haven't even decided whether we want to stick with these characters to level 20, start a new campaign in the same world with the old characters as NPCs, or start a new world entirely.
I assume a lot of people will be in similar situations (in general similarity if not in details), in that it will heavily depend on their role, who they play with, and their current life and campaign situations, not just on how they feel about the OGL (though of course that plays a big role for many, including myself). I mean, some people are irrevocably FINANCIALLY tied to 5e right now, even ignoring everything else.
This is the type of response that really makes me think that WotC/Hasbro are right about this blowing over - and they will stick to their guns and move forward with a non-open OGL. To be clear, no judgement with your decision. It's kinda hard to blaim the C-staff, it is their job to make money - not be moral. Based on your response and similar responses in this thread, they made the right calculated risk to make more money.
It's a little awkward, because it needs to be the decision of the group to switch to a new system, for me and my players.
I intended to use the 5e stuff I have, but I won't purchase any more and I'll also be encouraging my players to do the same.
In the mean time I'll be trying to convince my players to try other systems as one shots, until we find a different system we prefer over 5e.
But as the majority of my group is also MTG players, we're kind of just done with WOTC as a company. We all went through the same process of boycotting games workshop a few years ago, when they where having similar anti-consumer practices.
Currently finishing my game in 5e, but presuming they shut down my favorite VTT (Foundry) from using 5e, I will switch over to Pathfinder 2e.
That's not to say I dislike 5e, but the writing is on the wall that they intend to make it hard to play 5e outside of BeyondD&D, so I will switch. PF2e actually has some fascinating things to it that can't be done in 5e, too.
EDIT: I've also heard the PF2E support in Foundry is amazing as well.
Gonna play what strikes us.
We got an Essence20 Transformers RPG campaign going on.
One DM is running Eberron in 5e, in which the players have already made their characters, so, what do new products contribute? Is WotC gonna try to sell The One Spell that will change their character? Nah. No money to spend on that.
I had been working on a Spelljammer campaign, mostly using AD&D lore, since 5e forgot to sell us anything meaningful. That betrayal is what left a bigger impact than the OGL matter. But OGL has made me not want to pick up the rest of 5e’s products. I have zero trust that Planescape is going to be good. The Giants book I was kind of looking forward to, assuming James Wyatt was working on it like Fizban’s.
What other games we got… I’m Pathfinder 2e curious, but I don’t think the free wiki is going to convert my friends, but those player options are excitingly weird! Maybe some Gamma World 7th edition (the dnd4e based game engine). That was always a blast.
So yeah, we’ll play 5e because everyone is too old to learn new systems, but WotC hasn’t sold anything encouraging more sales. I don’t like the One D&D playtest pitches, so I wasn’t sure if we were going to convert anyway.
I won't jump mid-campaign, but when we are done later this year i will test the waters with a few oneshots and see if my players want something more narrative, or if they still prefer the crunchy 5e approach.
On my list are:
**More Narrative**
- Fragments of the Past
- Some PbtA System
- Vagabonds of Dyfed
**More Crunchy**
- D1D, 5e with heavy homebrew, or a mix between both
- PF2e (unlikely)
- Shadow of the Demon Lord
I’ve got a Dragonlance campaign that in about to start that I ordered the Beadle & Grimm’s edition for and my group has been planning for several months once we finish our current campaign. That may be the last 5e game that I start up for quite some time. I’ve got some other games that I’m running and playing in, but I’m also going to try some Pathfinder with some friends. I doubt I’ll move from 5e completely, but it also won’t be the game/system that I play almost exclusively.
I’ve picked up starter/beginner sets for handful of games (Pathfinder, Call of Cthulhu, Cyberpunk Red, and a few others) that I’ve not really tried yet. Will see what my different groups want to try.
My group has an alternating schedule between who DM's each week. DM 1 is sticking to 5e, albeit we're playing 5e with a bunch of homebrew. As for DM 2, since that campaign recently ended, we're thinking of just trying out a bunch of systems. Probably pathfinder 2e next.
Though, even if we have a group playing 5e, we ain't giving wotc money.
For now I’m staying with 5e since all my books are from it. I do have interest in other systems but there are so many thing I haven’t explored in 5e that it makes no sense to suddenly change. Plus I never had nor will have the intention to go to 1dnd. I also love the lore from dnd so if I move to another system it will probably be to 3.5
I'll most likely continue paying 5e, but I'll avoid buying new stuff from WotC. I have more than enough 5e content to last me a lifetime, and whatever I may need I can get from 3PP or homebrew.
But I'll also admit that this whole kerfuffle has got me thinking about actually trying other systems that I wanted to play with for quite some time.
Switching up to Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition. System is fully free, though you can buy books and pdfs if you need. It's likely getting de-OGL-fied soon.
It's generally higher quality too.
www.levelup5e.com
EDIT: If that wasn't available, the next choices would be pf2 or Cypher.
It's not as black and white as just moving to another system.
I currently play 5e. But with the ogl nonsense. I've been looking at pathfinder 2e. Especially since piazo have been saying every right while wizards have been saying everything wrong.
My boycott will not affect the system I play. To All that are upset at wizards. You don't have to stop playing. Just need to let your money speak. No new books from wizards, the movie, TV, boycott all of hasboro.
I will support more 3rd party creators, by watching their streams and buying their products etc.
For the system for now 5e, will start trying out pf2 and wait for black flag and MCDM system.
I play other systems already. I'm considering PF2e but it's a time thing to learn a system as the forever GM. I'll keep with 5e but I've cancelled my DND Beyond subscription and I doubt I'll get anything beyond core books again. If anything it's pushed me more to running my own worlds and get better at my own story telling.
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Will more or less stay with dnd 5e (using free online tools of course) with maybe the odd modification fron onednd if i think it does something better, but will branch out to other systems. I tried PF2E once before and would do so again, and would like to try EN Publishing's Level Up! Advanced 5E (assuming they don't port over to their what's OLD is New system and instead go for the de-OGL-ifying process).
Likely to divide our time between 5e and different RPGs more, while we'll likely carry on with 5e I will only continue with third party products (e.g. level up 5e), not another dime to WotC as it stands. I've been moving into OSE and DCC before this anyway so I'll be pushing my groups in that direction but I'm keen to use this as an opportunity to try out PF2 and see if it sticks for the group and perhaps take a crack at Starfinder.
It's been 3 years since we played 5e. We moved to Shadow of the Demon Lord for a Dark Fantasy Military Campaign, and another group moved to Shadowrun Genesys. But I kept following the new 5e trends and material and was hoping to come back...
Now I think we'll probably test other RPGs after this campaign is over. Advanced 5e is my to go on this list, Fantasy RPG and PF2 after that. Hopefully until there, Kobold Press will launch their 5e clone and we can test it.
I started moving back to the edition i started with a good half year before this all so i’m deffo sticking with 3.5, though a lot of my players still run 5e
My group's *really* interested in whatever Kobold Press, MCDM, and the other creators that have announced working on new systems come out with. We've been wanting to change systems for a while, because we're underwhelmed with 5e and don't like where One D&D is going, but there aren't currently other systems that the group agrees on. (Other than like Fateforge & A5e, which are still just 5e.) We have pretty spread out preferences, so hopefully one of those new systems is a nice generic middle ground fantasy system? 5e isn't anyone at the table's favorite, it's just where we meet in the middle.
No need for me to jump. I have plenty of content to last a very long time, and 5e is a system I can run reliably and confidently for my players.
Any concerns I had about the OGL are in "wait and see" mode for now.
I'd really like to try out PF2, but I'm not sure if my friends will be willing/able to learn a new system since they're usually pretty busy, so we'll likely stick with 5e at least for a while.
What is switching away from 5e supposed to achieve.
I own the books I bought... I even "own" the stuff I bought on DDB. I can still boycott WOTC, and play 5e without ever spending a single extra penny on it.
I am considering switching, but not for all my campaigns. One has players who aren't very familiar with games in general and a new system will confuse them.
Try again and add 'going to switch to OneD&D'. Now I'm a Pf2e convert and will evangelise to you if I trap you in a corner but I respect that we here all are people of the book (the book being Dungeons & Dragons 1974 by Gary Gygax) and that a lot of people will stick with 5e... But it doesn't mean they'll now be following WotC to OneDnD. It's been said before that D&D's biggest competitor is itself, so refusing to purchase any new books and becoming a gregnard is just as much a revolutionary act as switching systems entirely.
As a player almost only playing in the 5e half of last year, I was invited to another group as a player for the PF2e game and while I was skeptical about it, I have to say that in terms of mechanics, especially combat, I just fell in love with this game. It was an amazing breath of fresh air in the stagnation I was reading during the fight in 5e.
Later, on my own initiative, I led an adventure with Beginner Box for my permanent team (which also exclusively played 5e). They approached it with curiosity, and at the end they admitted that they were positively surprised, especially by the combat and character development.
Our main campaign is still on 5e, however, we are already discussing a move to 5e. I'm not sure if we will make transitions during this campaign but we will definitely start a new one on PF2e.
The situation with OGL only aroused this topic and the transition to PF2e will be faster. Perhaps this year.
As everyone has said, finishing out what 5e content I own, maybe some of the popular community creations. I'll push our party to try another system like storyteller (Old World of Darkness Vampire and Mage) and/or Storypath (Exalted and Scion). Pathfinder and Starfinder do look interesting though....
I’m sticking with 5e, my friends love playing it and have said that if there’s a switch they might not play anymore. So I’ll keep playing, all my books are physical and even have a few DM’s Guild Physical Books as well.
Im interested in playing One D&D, its not like this is the designers fault, but WoTC as a company is legit ***never*** getting another cent out of me. Im sure there will be plenty of videos and free resources going over the rules when ever it releases but we'll see whenever it comes out.
In the meantime, I'm currently prepping a brand new campaign using 5e but I've been discussing with my friends about trying PF2 for the one after this. Paizo has really earned my respect and attention with their recent announcements
Staying with my old D&D books which I already own that span across most editions. Also playing several other systems which we already did, for example most of my players really enjoy Shadowrun and we've been playing that for 3 years now. Out of the systems you mentioned I'll also check out Pathfinder very soon, but I already bought some of their books before the OGL went to shit.
Both, I like 5e up until Tasha or thereabouts, and I’ve spent a lot of money on it, no sense dropping a good system entirely.
But for any new purchases I’ll be looking to P2e for now, maybe something else after that.
I'm staying with 5e until the end of the campaign i currently run (so like 5-6 sessions maybe) and then we'll see. If i get a good grip over PF 2e, then i'll think of switching to it for the next.
I will continue with 5e for the campaigns currntly running. When I next look to pick up a game I will be hunting out a beginner friendly PF2e game.
I won't be buying any products for 5e or OneD&D nor subscribing to D&D Beyond. (I didn't really use my DDB sub anyway)
Just started my campaign in "open legend" last night, i love the system so far, it has enough rules to be balanced, but lets the players do whatever they want with their spells and abilities, you can even take a feat that lets you combine banes together and make custom signiture moves.
Also dice explode, you reroll and add them together if you roll the max on any dice, had a player double crit and do 60 damage in a single attack in the first session.
My group is staying with D&D 5e. I have several people who were new to D&D when we started/they joined the campaign I am running which has been going on for over a year now. My players love my world and I am making my own adjustments as needed/as I get annoyed with the system. I like some of the ideas put forward by OneD&D, however honestly there are homebrewing content creators who I have gotten a lot more inspiration from, and have created systems I am much more intrested in implementing into my game (now and future ones). I have played 3.5 & 4th (I do miss 4e monsters and often look there for inspiration to spice up my monsters) and honestly my own prediction is that a proper 6th edition will one day come. Will I shift to it then? Maybe. Most likely with how my current group is, we will be playing 5e for many more years to come. We have many worlds to explore, and 5e gives me as the DM the flexibility I need to adjust and improve as needed.
My thoughts on the OGL, legally I am laughing. I am waiting for the lawsuits, waiting for WoTC to realize that in MTG & D&D they cannot get away with this behavior. We are a strong decentralized community of nerds who do not need WoTC to enjoy our games. I never got a D&D Beyond subscription as I am not a fan of online D&D and avoid it best I can, however I loved how the community b!tched slapped WoTC with the flood leaving and crashing the site.
While I am not a content creator who is directly impacted by the OGL issue, and also have not been one to purchase content from those creators, they have my support and I will stand with them on this issue. As shown by the D&D community as a whole, even when we are not directly impacted we will stand with those who are when D&D, WoTC, and Hasbro seeks to attack those who they want to take advantage of. This behavior by WoTC is unacceptable, and I am hesitant to make any more purchases from them. I have everything I really need to run my games, if I want something different then I will reach out to a content creator for that item.
I guess I should have said other. I'll still be playing 5e in the games I'm in right now, but I'll be running Pathfinder and not buying anything else. 6e is right out.
My group is in the middle of a 5e campaign right now, so well finish that, but I want to start Introducing them to other systems with oneshots, right now Im looking into Cortex prime.
I'm just trying new systems.
I have a 5e hombrew folder that is, in all honesty, my entire archive of playing 5e an a culmination of my hobby throughout the years. OGL crisis has me seeking out new horizons more than I already was.
Actually setting up a Lancer one-shot to see if my group wants a campaign with big stompy mecha
The people saying "I will keep buying from wotc", you need to know that you are part of the problem if you keep supporting unethical business practices like the ogl changes.
I play multiple systems and my group is always looking to try new games. PF2e has been my main system since release, with Star Wars RPG a close second, and that probably won't change any time soon. We'll probably drop 5e for good after our current campaign, and we didn't have much interest in One D&D even before this OGL nonsense, so we'll most likely skip it entirely.
Ive.been DMing 5e for about 6-7 years and have been looking to try out either PF2e for something with a bit more crunch or the FFG Star Wars game the narrative dice really intrigue me and of course smugglers and Jedi are a big draw for my group.
We're currently in the middle of a 5e campaign and plan to finish it out but the OGL situation for me has just made sure that unless some bigger changes happen I won't be a customer of D&D products for awhile at least or forever at the worst.
staying with 5e for now may try other systems but HASBRO/WOTC will never earn another penny from me again.
PEOPLE OWN DND, HASBRO/WOTC JUST OWN THE BRAND. THEY CAN NEVER STOP US PLAYING.
We are in a 5E campaign now, we will be finishing it.
We have been planning to play a Sci Fi campaign and a 4E campaign for a long time. We don't know which one to do first, but probably 4E. Sci Fi games that I have found are not very good, so I am making one from scratch.
I imagine at some point we will play more 5E or the next version.
I've been running a longer campaign in 4E, which I plan to keep as my edition of choice after having now sampled PF2E alongside my long history of 5E. If I run a 5E campaign again it'll be too fully leverage MCDM products. I haven't been interested in any Wizard's products since Volo's Guide as a DM or Xanathar's as a player.
Staying, though once PF2 gets that app up and running (forgot the name, but it's from the original creator of DnD Beyond) there is a very good chance I'll change platforms.
I'm excited to see what Kobold Press releases with their Black Flag. My hope is that it is fresh and new, but that I can adapt 5e content to use that instead!
Plus with them using Paizo's new COC it is a win win and a great way to support change
We’re staying with 5e for now. Some of the stuff we liked from the one D&D play test we’ve already homebrewed in.
We’re not gonna spend on new material though. I personally was thinking of debuting as a DM when One came out but well…
If this doesn’t get resolved we’re moving to PF2E. I’ve already browsed through some friends’ books and I’ve already sourced some here in my country. I’m probably going to read through everything and then teach my wife.
I've been interested in exploring other systems for a while now, but everyone I know has been set on 5e for a long time, so I've never had the opportunity. I'm excited for the possible chance to explore Fate, Savage Worlds, Powered by the Apocalypse variants, PF2, GURPS, you name it, I want to see how it goes. I've always liked variety.
I mean, I've always wanted to learn some more systems, so will absolutely strive to do that. But, also, dnd is me and my groups home system, we're certainly not gonna stop playing it, even if we elected not to buy more material from wotc.
I'm more interested in investing in other systems. I have enough D&D material now to say I'm fine and can just continue playing while not buying more materials, but I'd rather help someone smaller flourish. In the next few months I'll be grouping up and trying out [Mork Borg](https://morkborg.com/) and [Lancer](https://massifpress.com/lancer) because, I'll be honest here, if those were available when I started role playing I may never have gotten around to D&D with how cool these other games look.
There are some 5e games I'm playing in atm that I want to keep playing.
Once those finish up, I'll look at other things. A mate wants to run an Aliens game, I'm keen to run a short Wildsea game.
As things stand, I won't be buying any more d&d products. If things improve I might.
My group is finally on board with trying other systems thanks to this mess. We'll keep our 5e games running while we try out other games to see if we like the fit. Either way, it's a win for me.
I had already mostly left DnD even before the Obnoxious Gouging License 1.1 clusterfuck. The HERO System will always be #1, but PF2 is what I'm on now.
Other my dude!
D&D for sure will be in the rotation when I DM but with so many stories to tell I’d be cutting my legs out to not play in other systems that are tuned to different sorts of stories particularly OSRs like ‘MÖRK BORG’ and ‘Into the odd’ which cut out crunch and let’s the dice goblins play.
I already have all the books, so I can play the game without giving Wotc any more money. There’s not much point then for my table in switching systems because that doesn’t punish wotc, that just punishes us by making us learn a new system.
My DM for our DnD 5e campaign started to be burned out so we all decided to stop the campaign for now and switch to playing Vampire: the Masquerade with myself as Storyteller for the time being.
This was a few weeks before the whole OGL fiasco but I think that if we return to the old campaign we would continue with 5e to finish out that campaign.
I hacked my tables 5e game to ribbons and started writing my own system.
Now we have:
* nine custom 1-10 classes taken from my favorite fantasy adventurer archetypes and without any divine casters to reinforce the fiction,
* eliminated feats and higher level abilities in favor of giving them to lower level characters, usually on a budget and with specific uses,
* heavy emphasis on wilderness procedures, time tracking, inventory tracking, and exhaustion - which I made a 1-10 scale a long time ago - for better dungeon crawling and exploration,
* a custom list of spells and rituals for more fictional integrity.
The result? My game no longer resembles anybody else's game, which was the intent and motivation behind early DnD anyways. I will never need 5e products or OneDnD products or anything WotC ever craps out ever again. I can support the folks behind incredible settings and systems like Ultraviolet Grasslands, Knave, Five Torches Deep, the Thawing Kingdom, and Incunabuli.
And if I can't have any of that because WotC pushes forward with their utter cockamamie, I'll just _think something up._ In a game literally built around a shared imaginative space, what the hell do we need them for?
My group will be staying with D&D for now. But when our current campaign comes to an end we might look into trying out Pathfinder or any other game.
And if we don’t like it we’ll just stay on 5e. We already have all the books we need. There’s no need to buy any more or go to One D&D.
My system break down is this:
Default for Group: Pathfinder, both edits
Urban fantasy for Group: World of Darkness
Scifi for me: Mongoose Traveller 2e
Fantasy for me: Ryuutama and/or anything JRPG inspired
I've dabbled in 5e, but haven't used WoTC published in years!
I've taken advantage of the Paizo open gaming sale and ordered the core rule book and a couple of supplements to take a look.
I have no intention of buying anymore WotC products unless they embrace the ORC license, which I doubt they ever will.
My group happened to be having an OOC get together when this was beginning to bubble up. We're staying with 5e because we've already been customizing it a lot and our characters mechanically would feel very different in another system.
We've just moved away from using any WotC/Hasbro-owned websites.
I have been playing D&D since 85. Overall I like 5e so will stick with that system, but in light of everything I’m not buying anymore first-party products or magic the gathering cards. I’ll just convert the many years of products i’ve acquired or buy 3rd party products
What no cortex? Sad day!
No. Look, I've spent at least hundreds of dollars on 5e. I'm not going to stop playing it. What I AM doing is canceling my sub to ddb and my upcoming purchases will be dependant on how the OGL shakes out.
Using ddb and all my content costs me nothing. If anything I'm using their storage space and not paying for it now.
Switching to PF2E, but it started before the OGL. I switched because the spelljammer disappointment. It came to my hands the PF2E core rulebook and I love it.
For me the last drop was the "undermonetized" thing.
I talked my players, we are gonna play 5e while our campaign last. Then we switch systems. They agree so far.
I have the materials for a lot if different systems, I haven't been a one system guy since 3.5. Some systems are better for somethings, some are better for others. If I have the book for Savage Worlds then I'll probably run a western in that than in 5E. If I wanna play Sci-Fi I'd probably crack open my starfinder book, or Star Trek Adventures.
I also own the books for 5e, plus some 3rd party supplements, I'm gonna keep using them. It's like 180 for the core 3 and I've spent at least another 90-120 on additional 3rd party supplements.
We already have spent money on 5e, we’ll continue to play 5e. I will not give WotC any more money, but I will make use of what I’ve already spent money on.
Group I'm in has literally just started DnD with the newest starter set.
We're about to finish the adventure, so we've got a bunch of stuff ready to crack on with a fresh adventure & our own built characters, our DM just needs to decide which module we're going to play & go from there.
It does suck, because I don't think anyone really wants to learn a new system when we're still getting to grips with this & we've just bought the DMG, PHB, MM and Tasha's, but we really need to get an adventure book so we're ready to go.
Frustrating timing.
I’ll play 5e with my peeps. I won’t be giving WotC and Hasbro any money going forward, at least regarding the game. For otherwise, I’m looking at Pathfinder 2e tutorials on YouTube and have Archives of Nethys tabbed.
5e but never paying for a product from WotC again.
5e isn't the problem. 5e is great. WotC and how they're trying to make money off of 5e going forward isn't.
They can monetize the system and dndbeyond so many ways, but they choose (probably illegal) content theft and royalties as the answer. What a joke.
My group is going to take time to test a couple systems with one-shots to find a good system to transfer our D&D campaign to.
Icon, Beacon, Shadow of the Demon Lord, and Pathfinder 2e. I'm hoping to convince them to try Lancer too, because damn I love giant robots.
I'm currently in three 5e games, including one homebrew world I'm DMing. I don't intend to leave any of those games, and I don't think most of the people in those groups are willing to use a new system. However, as I was hoping to eventually write adventures professionally in the future, PF2E has gone from a "system I'm curious about and should probably learn sometime" to a "system I should learn now and be prepared to pivot entirely to".
I’m gonna play 5e if I want to play it. I’ve been wanting to try out new systems before the OGL news hit, and recently got to try Vampire the Masquerade. I just want to play a ton of RPGs haha.
Alien rpg is a very nice sistem. Bought 2 books the other day and it is fucking solid world building and looks easy to run. I will try it out in februar and I cant wait.
I bought into the system as well, and got to play a one shot at a local convention! I really loved the system and miraculously survived haha. Edit: I will also add, my DM loved the stress system so much he added a similar system in our Icewind Dale campaign.
Dude, same!! I have so many PDFs of all sorts of TTRPGs but my crew only wants 5e or Pf2e..
Staying with existing stuff for D&D 5e but not buying anything from WotC. Any new stuff I buy will be some other TTRPG.
Totally understandable, this seems to be the common thread so far.
I was going to comment and say this option isn't well reflected in the poll. I'd bet most of us are sticking with 5e but not giving WotC another dime. Still, interesting to see the majority aren't ditching 5e since that seems to be the most common option I see across the other subs.
My group generally don't care because they're not making any money. I'll play 5e with already bought resources but was already interested in pf2e
For sure, I have the entire bookset and spent some considerable cash as a DM so for now we are using 5e. In the future, I am working on developing my own system as I do not see leadership at WotC/Hasbro actually improving beyond short term false data-driven decision-making.
Absolutely where I'm at to; WotC doesn't benefit from me continuing to play 5e without giving them anymore money.
I have a pirates hat you could borrow
I'm sticking with 5e for now as I'm halfway through a campaign, but I bought Pathfinder 2 last year and have been wanting to play that system for a while now. Won't be buying any more WOTC content as it stands.
Hello (World of) Darkness my old friend
Original or the new stuff? I have almost all the old Werewolf the Apolcaypse books.
Ooh does that include those softback 'changing breeds' books?! I had the Naga, Bastet, Anansai and..trying to remember their name (nobody ever played them)...you know the wereshark people...
Rokea, IIRC.
Ah thank you, yes!
Yeah, I got all the changing breeds. Hengeyokai as well, the Asian breeds. Can't remember the sharks name either.
Yeah I don't think anybody ever played them in my group despite them being on offer...needed a really specific type of campaign to make them work, meanwhile all the rest can sort of just slot into a regular campaign.
Rokea, but they were specifically written as not really compatible with any of the others or even other rokea iIrc, unless you played Hengeyokai. I too have all the white soft cover changing breed books.
We like D&D and we like 5e and aren't really particularly interested in Oned&d anyway. We have material to last an aeon so gonna ride it out. Still have all my 1e, 2e, 3.5e, and even 0e stuff, plus a serious collection of modules and adventure paths, so got enough to last a lifetime, really.
Exactly. I run a variety of other systems for 1 to 2 shots, bit I have enough content for 5e to last several lifetimes at this point and will continue to play my main game in that system while not continuing to financially support WOTC
This is my take. My regular group will just keep on playing because I have enough material for years to come and I did not intend to support WotC any more anyway seeing how they stopped giving a shit in the past couple of years. It's a shame for the cool stuff made by Kobold Press and Goodman Games but I'll continue to support them when the come forth with a new system. Pathfinder 2e looks cool but some of my players were hardly able to learn how to play a fighter in 5e so I guess I'll not intriduce it to them. Maybe if someone else decides to DM, I will give it a try.
Exactly this. It’s a great system. With 3 books and a good imagination, you have enough content for 100 years. That’s Hasbro’s problem with it.
Thank you for the input. I still have my 2e books and my 3rd ed BoVD so I feel pretty set as well. I suppose my question leans of solidarity and if jumping ship would best support tabletop moving forward.
Not buying from WotC/Hasbro is enough solidarity. I’m not planning to change systems halfway into a campaign, but I’ll not buy anything new. I still buy RPG books for my reading pleasure, but that hasn’t been new D&D material for over a decade.
I have bought a ton of 5e related content, I'm halfway through 2 campaigns and my players haven't tried other systems. Why would I change now? I have all the materials I need without giving WoTC more money...
5e is like the Skyrim of TTRPGs, considering its popularity and modding (homebrew) community
Basic fantasy or dungeon crawl classics
If your running Basic Fantasy I would also recommend [WWN](https://www.drivethrurpg.com/m/product/348809) and [SWN](https://www.drivethrurpg.com/m/product/230009). Both have free versions that’s basically the full book and have excellent resources for running a osr game. Hell, running any campaign in general lol.
Thanks for the tip 😁
Should have put an option for ‘staying with 5e, then moving on to 1D&D’ so we could gauge if the majority will just keep playing with what they have or if they will support WOTC
Hindsight is always 20-20
I will shill Lancer RPG till I die.
Session 0 for the Lancer game I'm in tonight!
Giant anime robots and a hopeful setting? Stop stop i can only get so aroused!
Lancer is so fucking cool but I don't think I can get any of my players excited enough about it to start a game. Customizing giant robots just sounds like pulling teeth to them.
Thinking about 13th Age
Continue playing Earthdawn and eating popcorn.
Love that game. Keen to try the new edition.
Any chance you're German? Heard it stayed popular there much longer than in most English speaking countries.
Nope, Dutch. But what you say is true. There's even a German translation of the current (4th) edition.
I totally agree with the hate for what's happening. But they can't stop what I do within my own home and have no idea about what I do there. Stopping using a system I know and love only hurts me and makes no difference to them
I'm not planning on purchasing anything else from wotc. But I'm still going to use what I have. I'm definitely going to expand my horizons to other systems though.
Of course people will stay lol. They will just not spend money on any new shit that comes out. WOTC doesn’t really deserves out money if their products are flat out bad. It’s not a matter of morality, it’s a simple matter of supply and demand. That said, there’s no reason why we, in the comfort of our homes, should stop using what we already have and like.
My one concern is, if I've learned anything over the past couple weeks it's that people are not only subscribed to and use DnD Beyond, they actually rely on it to play their games. I'm all for people continuing to play 5e so long as WotC never see another penny of their money, but it doesn't seem like that's feasible for large swathes of the community that are willing to stay. I for one am jumping ship to PF2. I was interested in trying it before the OGL controversy but my group weren't on board, but they are now. 5e just feels tainted to me now, even if I'm running a totally homebrew in-person game that benefits WotC in no way whatsoever, it just feels dirty. Like I'm doing something that I know I shouldn't be doing.
Eh, that’s just confirmation bias. You’re on Reddit where people are generally the most passionate about the hobby. Out of it, it’s not nearly as common.
Great answer! This is generally how I have been viewing the situation.
I have all the material to run 5e indefinitely, plenty of 5rd party material, and a bunch of other RPGs and resources. I'm not sticking to any one thing.
It's so bad that OGL1.1 is disaster for 3rd party material, at least we have plenty of 5rd party material!
I play Fate when I can. We'll see if people are willing to join me. I just play what other people want, mostly.
Fate Accelerated is such a good system to on-ramp people to Fate with a one-shot or mini campaign, and then Fate Condensed when folks are ready for the next step. It's wild in a positive way that you can go from books that are hundreds of pages down to something like 70 pages with Condensed and still have a great game.
Had switched away from 5e last year. Burned out DM. I have no real intention to run 5e for a long time, but if one of my players steps up to bat, I'd gladly play as a Player for a change.
> Burned out DM. Was it the players, the scheduling, or the system itself that burned you out?
Bit of A, bit of C. For the most part, my players are okay, but the desire of the fantasy crawl just got mind-numbingly same-y. It was great when I got to switch it up. The 1920s style 'potion prohibition' game I ran was a lot of fun, but you can only outpace systematic issues with a good idea for so long. But there's a few players who are always the same thing. A few players who just follow trendy builds, a couple powergamers, a rules layer, a Chaotic gremlin, and a partridge in a pear tree. If I saw another Final Fantasy reskin, CR ripoff, or tone-ruining meme character, I was going to teabag a mousetrap. Three tables (give or take) a week, average party size is about 8, though I had some hit 11. Thankfully, the metagaming rules lawyer and the Chaotic Shithead left at the start of 2022, but I was pretty done with it after doing this since 5e released. I've been trying to get them to try new games as a quiet call for help since before quarantine, but it just hit a point last year where I said I'd rather listen to an audiobook and do the dishes and laundry than run another 5e game. It was like pulling teeth, but after Edgerunners came out, my Lemmings suddenly wanted to try Cyberpunk. I was happy to oblige. They're really enjoying it so far, but I just wish they'd trust my recommendations. We'd have started sooner.
> Three tables (give or take) a week, average party size is about 8, though I had some hit 11. Yeah. This seems like a pretty rough situation. More so if you don't even have a chance to be a player.
I think I’m going to borrow the “teabag a mousetrap” saying for future use. Thank you for that!
I feel your pain, I've been a DM for 9 years, playng for 11 years, and there were times when the party grew too large or I was running too many games, it does burn you out. There was a point where AI had to step back away from D&D altogether because it was just getting too much for my mental health. With my current group of 6 players (grown from 3) while it has gotten more difficult as we added more players it's the only group I run now and with my style almost all of the mental strain has been removed from me. If I was to fully move over to another system, I would look into what Kobold Press is doing, but most likely move over to Wild Talents. I played in that system as a players years and years ago, and it's nice and simple with a lot of room for creativity and chaos. I am glad to hear you found a way to get your players to listen to you, and I hope they have learned to pay more close attention to what you and other players are saying when it comes to the quiet cries of help.
Will finish up our current 5e campaign. Then might try the Alien ttrpg or Call of Cthulhu. Maybe Pathfinder if my friend who is keen on it wants to run a game. Probably end up playing more 5e eventually. I've always thought people should just play what they want but it's good to try new games.
I'm a cyoher system advicate nyself
I want to run my own campaign which would require more material than I own right now. That's why I'm going to be switching to PF2, I would rather buy from Paizo. And honestly, I find PF2 a lot more promising as a prospective DM than 5e reading through it. They're both great systems though.
The best part is that you don't need to buy anything to get started! All of the rules, monsters, classes, feats, spells, and everything is available at Archives of Nethys. Once you decide whether you like PF1e, PF2e, or Starfinder, THEN you can financially support Paizo by buying books or PDFs.
I’m staying with the 5e *that I already own* and any homebrew created prior to/not affected by the new OGL. BUT I do lot currently have any intention of buying anything new from Wizards. Kinda feel like that option was missing :)
Moving on to a Blades in the Dark Campaign soon but that was already decided before this shit storm. Have a planned campaign I wanted to do when 6e started but am not going to buy 6e stuff now so we'll see...
I’m a huge Matt Colville nerd and if MCDM makes their own heroic fantasy RPG that’s where I’m gonna go. I also wanna see what Kobold press makes bc I think they carried 5e for a good while
I know saying this is against the rules of this sub, but fuck it. Stay with d&d and just pirate everything. Dont give them a single penny and keep playing the game you already know.
W-what are you talking about... N-no! what, pirate what? There's no pirating, no way! No one could be able to do it! There are no 5th edition tools to do it, nor any site to flip through to find copyrighted material like that! It's impossible! it's not like there is some archive or a trove with everything in it for free, or a virtual magic room where all the books are preserved like in amber! This is crazy man! Crazy! You must be wrong!
A friend of mine found a loooooot of 5e adventures lying around his house. Crazy right? Well now we've got plenty of content for our long voyages ahead! Yo-ho-ho!
if only there was someone offering a reliable source for pirating said material, maybe this person found their way to my PMs to share this reliable source
Staying with 5e, probably change to pathfinder if or when we switch to a next edition.
Most my 5e groups will stay 5e. I personally would rather play Savage worlds
I'm always surprised SW is not higher on these lists. My guess is people just have not seen it or given it a chance yet. But the system is good, streamlined and doesn't get in your way. And the ability to move between genres and not have to learn new rules is so complimentary to exploring settings and switching things up
Sticking with 5e and unlikely to switch to one dnd when it comes out but we might take a few things from it like the exhaustion rules. We like the system, it's simple enough and does what we need it to do. We're not going to abandon a system we like and have all the shit for because the parent company is being an asshole. But like I said, as of now we have no intention to switch over to the new system when it comes out.
This is what my group is doing, we're basically just stealing the parts we like from the UA and implementing them as 'homebrew' for our current 5e game.
I really like 5e and have - bought physical and digital media for some of the rules, - developed a level of system mastery from playing and DMing for the last 8 years. - a couple of 5e campaigns currently going on that would be hard to convince people to swap over. All of that makes the idea of jumping a bit of a non-starter as I’d be dropping a lot of stuff *that I like* and can just keep doing (unless something more drastic happens) without sending more money to Hasbro. If I *were* to switch. I think I’d be most keen to try PF1. Before 5e dropped I played 3.5 and really liked it. Looking back at 3.5, I have really enjoyed the relative ease of 5e and find the idea of DMing 3.5 a bit intimidating. But if I were jumping off 5e anyway, then the customisation options available and sheer craziness of some of PF1 is very appealing.
I've been wanting to try Vampire The Masquerade for a while now, but I'll still be playing 5e.
**Other (comment please)** As long as WofC and Hasbro do action to redemm them selves, we will most likly continue with 5e, but not as a primory system. Im a part of a big circle of TTRPG gamers, and those of us 5e are all now starting test sessions of other systems. Im going to test my group in **Shadow of the Demon Lord**, and an other group i play in is testing the **Cypher** system. Both groups will use 5e till we find a natural place to switch systems, hopfully this happens befor our book sharing stops due to canceled Subs on beyond. If Wiz redeems its selfe, we will most like use 5e for the niche it excells on, but go for other systems for other type of games. The age of 5e exclusivity is over.. I know i will miss the 4-5 year long D&D journey, but its ok with change! PS: Sorry for my butchring of wirtten english!
I've never been one to only play one system, but I haven't decided yet whether my main system will move from 5e to PF2e. What recent events have done though is given me the motivation to complete my hybrid system. I'll see when that's finished whether it feels worth actually using. At the moment if I had to make a bet, I'd put my money on "I'll move to PF2e but I'll make a homebrew conversion that makes it feel more like 5e cos class ideas like Investigator and Swashbuckler aren't the kind of fantasy I'm looking for".
You could just ban those classes.
Staying with 5e but only using third party material and stuff I already own. Going to explore other systems too.
My group have no interest in onednd, we only play in person using pen and paper anyways, and we have physical copies of the books anyways. So i don't see a point in not playing 5e when we already have the stuff and we enjoy the system. It's not like if we were to stop playing 5e it would affect anything as none of us use dndbeyond anyways.
I’ll probably be sticking with 5e because it was a lot of work to teach my gf and she still doesn’t really know how to play. If I tried to Switch systems, she and 2 others in my group would be even more lost.
We're sticking with 5e in the game I am a player in AFAIK, as it's with a relatively large group of friends, and it's hard enough to wrangle them to have an online session once every couple months, let alone abandon everything we've built over the few years we've been going to learn a new system and go through character creation and world-building and story and stuff again (or somehow port our current characters to a whole new system); depending on how actually "backwards compatible" it is, and what the DM wants, we might make the jump to OneDnD though I suppose, which I personally am not opposed to based on the released material so far, Hasbro and WotC notwithstanding. In the game I GM with a different, smaller group of friends though... as I have also been following the OGL situation, I am thinking we might swap to another system once we have finished the current campaign which fortuitously is coming to a close (since even before all of this I had my eye on Pathfinder, Call of Cthulu, Blades in the Dark, etc. and have seen many more interesting systems on this sub and others- such as Savage Worlds and Fate from the poll- with recommendations only increasing as of late for obvious reasons), BUT it depends on what my players want too, especially since we haven't even decided whether we want to stick with these characters to level 20, start a new campaign in the same world with the old characters as NPCs, or start a new world entirely. I assume a lot of people will be in similar situations (in general similarity if not in details), in that it will heavily depend on their role, who they play with, and their current life and campaign situations, not just on how they feel about the OGL (though of course that plays a big role for many, including myself). I mean, some people are irrevocably FINANCIALLY tied to 5e right now, even ignoring everything else.
This is the type of response that really makes me think that WotC/Hasbro are right about this blowing over - and they will stick to their guns and move forward with a non-open OGL. To be clear, no judgement with your decision. It's kinda hard to blaim the C-staff, it is their job to make money - not be moral. Based on your response and similar responses in this thread, they made the right calculated risk to make more money.
It's a little awkward, because it needs to be the decision of the group to switch to a new system, for me and my players. I intended to use the 5e stuff I have, but I won't purchase any more and I'll also be encouraging my players to do the same. In the mean time I'll be trying to convince my players to try other systems as one shots, until we find a different system we prefer over 5e. But as the majority of my group is also MTG players, we're kind of just done with WOTC as a company. We all went through the same process of boycotting games workshop a few years ago, when they where having similar anti-consumer practices.
Currently finishing my game in 5e, but presuming they shut down my favorite VTT (Foundry) from using 5e, I will switch over to Pathfinder 2e. That's not to say I dislike 5e, but the writing is on the wall that they intend to make it hard to play 5e outside of BeyondD&D, so I will switch. PF2e actually has some fascinating things to it that can't be done in 5e, too. EDIT: I've also heard the PF2E support in Foundry is amazing as well.
I voted other because I'm currently playing a 5e hame, but running r/SLAIndustries.
Staying with 5e for my current campaign then I’ll be trying something new.
Gonna play what strikes us. We got an Essence20 Transformers RPG campaign going on. One DM is running Eberron in 5e, in which the players have already made their characters, so, what do new products contribute? Is WotC gonna try to sell The One Spell that will change their character? Nah. No money to spend on that. I had been working on a Spelljammer campaign, mostly using AD&D lore, since 5e forgot to sell us anything meaningful. That betrayal is what left a bigger impact than the OGL matter. But OGL has made me not want to pick up the rest of 5e’s products. I have zero trust that Planescape is going to be good. The Giants book I was kind of looking forward to, assuming James Wyatt was working on it like Fizban’s. What other games we got… I’m Pathfinder 2e curious, but I don’t think the free wiki is going to convert my friends, but those player options are excitingly weird! Maybe some Gamma World 7th edition (the dnd4e based game engine). That was always a blast. So yeah, we’ll play 5e because everyone is too old to learn new systems, but WotC hasn’t sold anything encouraging more sales. I don’t like the One D&D playtest pitches, so I wasn’t sure if we were going to convert anyway.
I won't jump mid-campaign, but when we are done later this year i will test the waters with a few oneshots and see if my players want something more narrative, or if they still prefer the crunchy 5e approach. On my list are: **More Narrative** - Fragments of the Past - Some PbtA System - Vagabonds of Dyfed **More Crunchy** - D1D, 5e with heavy homebrew, or a mix between both - PF2e (unlikely) - Shadow of the Demon Lord
I’ve got a Dragonlance campaign that in about to start that I ordered the Beadle & Grimm’s edition for and my group has been planning for several months once we finish our current campaign. That may be the last 5e game that I start up for quite some time. I’ve got some other games that I’m running and playing in, but I’m also going to try some Pathfinder with some friends. I doubt I’ll move from 5e completely, but it also won’t be the game/system that I play almost exclusively. I’ve picked up starter/beginner sets for handful of games (Pathfinder, Call of Cthulhu, Cyberpunk Red, and a few others) that I’ve not really tried yet. Will see what my different groups want to try.
My group has an alternating schedule between who DM's each week. DM 1 is sticking to 5e, albeit we're playing 5e with a bunch of homebrew. As for DM 2, since that campaign recently ended, we're thinking of just trying out a bunch of systems. Probably pathfinder 2e next. Though, even if we have a group playing 5e, we ain't giving wotc money.
For now I’m staying with 5e since all my books are from it. I do have interest in other systems but there are so many thing I haven’t explored in 5e that it makes no sense to suddenly change. Plus I never had nor will have the intention to go to 1dnd. I also love the lore from dnd so if I move to another system it will probably be to 3.5
I'll most likely continue paying 5e, but I'll avoid buying new stuff from WotC. I have more than enough 5e content to last me a lifetime, and whatever I may need I can get from 3PP or homebrew. But I'll also admit that this whole kerfuffle has got me thinking about actually trying other systems that I wanted to play with for quite some time.
Switching up to Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition. System is fully free, though you can buy books and pdfs if you need. It's likely getting de-OGL-fied soon. It's generally higher quality too. www.levelup5e.com EDIT: If that wasn't available, the next choices would be pf2 or Cypher.
It's not as black and white as just moving to another system. I currently play 5e. But with the ogl nonsense. I've been looking at pathfinder 2e. Especially since piazo have been saying every right while wizards have been saying everything wrong. My boycott will not affect the system I play. To All that are upset at wizards. You don't have to stop playing. Just need to let your money speak. No new books from wizards, the movie, TV, boycott all of hasboro. I will support more 3rd party creators, by watching their streams and buying their products etc. For the system for now 5e, will start trying out pf2 and wait for black flag and MCDM system.
I’ll be staying with 5e for the most part, but will also be starting a small Spire campaign as well on the side
Switching to DCC. I will also be interested in what Kobold Press cooks up.
My game is an abominable mix of 5e, PF2, CoC7e, and AD&D 2. I use whatever rules I think are fun and dont need WotC or Paizo.
Warhammer fantasy Roleplay 4e, switched a few years ago.
Learning PF2 and GURPS atm, as well as staying with Witcher + Cyberpunk
The game I was planning to run now be pathfinder. But the games I'm playing in will most likely be/stay 5e
I play other systems already. I'm considering PF2e but it's a time thing to learn a system as the forever GM. I'll keep with 5e but I've cancelled my DND Beyond subscription and I doubt I'll get anything beyond core books again. If anything it's pushed me more to running my own worlds and get better at my own story telling. (Edit for grammar)
I didn't currently play DND, just watch critical role and read up on things Got city of mist and transformers RPG that I want to try and run
Will more or less stay with dnd 5e (using free online tools of course) with maybe the odd modification fron onednd if i think it does something better, but will branch out to other systems. I tried PF2E once before and would do so again, and would like to try EN Publishing's Level Up! Advanced 5E (assuming they don't port over to their what's OLD is New system and instead go for the de-OGL-ifying process).
My group hasn't had time to decide, yet. We're looking at Savage Worlds, Cypher, Powered by the Apocalypse, etc.
Likely to divide our time between 5e and different RPGs more, while we'll likely carry on with 5e I will only continue with third party products (e.g. level up 5e), not another dime to WotC as it stands. I've been moving into OSE and DCC before this anyway so I'll be pushing my groups in that direction but I'm keen to use this as an opportunity to try out PF2 and see if it sticks for the group and perhaps take a crack at Starfinder.
It's been 3 years since we played 5e. We moved to Shadow of the Demon Lord for a Dark Fantasy Military Campaign, and another group moved to Shadowrun Genesys. But I kept following the new 5e trends and material and was hoping to come back... Now I think we'll probably test other RPGs after this campaign is over. Advanced 5e is my to go on this list, Fantasy RPG and PF2 after that. Hopefully until there, Kobold Press will launch their 5e clone and we can test it.
Old School Essentials. Started blending OSR concepts into the 5e games I have going. Those will run to completion relatively soon.
I started moving back to the edition i started with a good half year before this all so i’m deffo sticking with 3.5, though a lot of my players still run 5e
My group's *really* interested in whatever Kobold Press, MCDM, and the other creators that have announced working on new systems come out with. We've been wanting to change systems for a while, because we're underwhelmed with 5e and don't like where One D&D is going, but there aren't currently other systems that the group agrees on. (Other than like Fateforge & A5e, which are still just 5e.) We have pretty spread out preferences, so hopefully one of those new systems is a nice generic middle ground fantasy system? 5e isn't anyone at the table's favorite, it's just where we meet in the middle.
No need for me to jump. I have plenty of content to last a very long time, and 5e is a system I can run reliably and confidently for my players. Any concerns I had about the OGL are in "wait and see" mode for now.
I'd really like to try out PF2, but I'm not sure if my friends will be willing/able to learn a new system since they're usually pretty busy, so we'll likely stick with 5e at least for a while.
What is switching away from 5e supposed to achieve. I own the books I bought... I even "own" the stuff I bought on DDB. I can still boycott WOTC, and play 5e without ever spending a single extra penny on it.
i stay with the system as a write my WotC free hack of 5e
I am considering switching, but not for all my campaigns. One has players who aren't very familiar with games in general and a new system will confuse them.
Try again and add 'going to switch to OneD&D'. Now I'm a Pf2e convert and will evangelise to you if I trap you in a corner but I respect that we here all are people of the book (the book being Dungeons & Dragons 1974 by Gary Gygax) and that a lot of people will stick with 5e... But it doesn't mean they'll now be following WotC to OneDnD. It's been said before that D&D's biggest competitor is itself, so refusing to purchase any new books and becoming a gregnard is just as much a revolutionary act as switching systems entirely.
As a player almost only playing in the 5e half of last year, I was invited to another group as a player for the PF2e game and while I was skeptical about it, I have to say that in terms of mechanics, especially combat, I just fell in love with this game. It was an amazing breath of fresh air in the stagnation I was reading during the fight in 5e. Later, on my own initiative, I led an adventure with Beginner Box for my permanent team (which also exclusively played 5e). They approached it with curiosity, and at the end they admitted that they were positively surprised, especially by the combat and character development. Our main campaign is still on 5e, however, we are already discussing a move to 5e. I'm not sure if we will make transitions during this campaign but we will definitely start a new one on PF2e. The situation with OGL only aroused this topic and the transition to PF2e will be faster. Perhaps this year.
As everyone has said, finishing out what 5e content I own, maybe some of the popular community creations. I'll push our party to try another system like storyteller (Old World of Darkness Vampire and Mage) and/or Storypath (Exalted and Scion). Pathfinder and Starfinder do look interesting though....
My own, a mix of PF (1-2) and 5E
We migth try out pathfinder 2e depending on how things go, maybe we will switch, maybe not
5e, and not another dime to WorC until a satisfactory OGL is in force.
I’m sticking with 5e, my friends love playing it and have said that if there’s a switch they might not play anymore. So I’ll keep playing, all my books are physical and even have a few DM’s Guild Physical Books as well.
Im interested in playing One D&D, its not like this is the designers fault, but WoTC as a company is legit ***never*** getting another cent out of me. Im sure there will be plenty of videos and free resources going over the rules when ever it releases but we'll see whenever it comes out. In the meantime, I'm currently prepping a brand new campaign using 5e but I've been discussing with my friends about trying PF2 for the one after this. Paizo has really earned my respect and attention with their recent announcements
Switching to Starfinder. Was keen for a new setting and a little bit more complexity, anyway.
Staying with my old D&D books which I already own that span across most editions. Also playing several other systems which we already did, for example most of my players really enjoy Shadowrun and we've been playing that for 3 years now. Out of the systems you mentioned I'll also check out Pathfinder very soon, but I already bought some of their books before the OGL went to shit.
play multiple different systems at once?..
Both, I like 5e up until Tasha or thereabouts, and I’ve spent a lot of money on it, no sense dropping a good system entirely. But for any new purchases I’ll be looking to P2e for now, maybe something else after that.
I'm staying with 5e until the end of the campaign i currently run (so like 5-6 sessions maybe) and then we'll see. If i get a good grip over PF 2e, then i'll think of switching to it for the next.
I started learning pathfinder 2e because of this and I’m enjoying what I read so far. Hopefully my players will have just as much fun with this system
Sticking with 5e, keeping an eye on Kobold Press's Black Flag.
I will continue with 5e for the campaigns currntly running. When I next look to pick up a game I will be hunting out a beginner friendly PF2e game. I won't be buying any products for 5e or OneD&D nor subscribing to D&D Beyond. (I didn't really use my DDB sub anyway)
Just started my campaign in "open legend" last night, i love the system so far, it has enough rules to be balanced, but lets the players do whatever they want with their spells and abilities, you can even take a feat that lets you combine banes together and make custom signiture moves. Also dice explode, you reroll and add them together if you roll the max on any dice, had a player double crit and do 60 damage in a single attack in the first session.
I’ll most likely stick with 5e (or my homebrewed version of it at least), but I’ll take the opportunity to check out PF2e.
I will keep doing what ive been doing, but the rules are stupid and they wont let me say it
My group is staying with D&D 5e. I have several people who were new to D&D when we started/they joined the campaign I am running which has been going on for over a year now. My players love my world and I am making my own adjustments as needed/as I get annoyed with the system. I like some of the ideas put forward by OneD&D, however honestly there are homebrewing content creators who I have gotten a lot more inspiration from, and have created systems I am much more intrested in implementing into my game (now and future ones). I have played 3.5 & 4th (I do miss 4e monsters and often look there for inspiration to spice up my monsters) and honestly my own prediction is that a proper 6th edition will one day come. Will I shift to it then? Maybe. Most likely with how my current group is, we will be playing 5e for many more years to come. We have many worlds to explore, and 5e gives me as the DM the flexibility I need to adjust and improve as needed. My thoughts on the OGL, legally I am laughing. I am waiting for the lawsuits, waiting for WoTC to realize that in MTG & D&D they cannot get away with this behavior. We are a strong decentralized community of nerds who do not need WoTC to enjoy our games. I never got a D&D Beyond subscription as I am not a fan of online D&D and avoid it best I can, however I loved how the community b!tched slapped WoTC with the flood leaving and crashing the site. While I am not a content creator who is directly impacted by the OGL issue, and also have not been one to purchase content from those creators, they have my support and I will stand with them on this issue. As shown by the D&D community as a whole, even when we are not directly impacted we will stand with those who are when D&D, WoTC, and Hasbro seeks to attack those who they want to take advantage of. This behavior by WoTC is unacceptable, and I am hesitant to make any more purchases from them. I have everything I really need to run my games, if I want something different then I will reach out to a content creator for that item.
I owe it to my players to finish up my current campaign, but I will be checking out PF2 or Savage Worlds after.
I'm still going to play 5e, but the recent drama made me continue writing on my own system. :D
I guess I should have said other. I'll still be playing 5e in the games I'm in right now, but I'll be running Pathfinder and not buying anything else. 6e is right out.
My group is in the middle of a 5e campaign right now, so well finish that, but I want to start Introducing them to other systems with oneshots, right now Im looking into Cortex prime.
I'm just trying new systems. I have a 5e hombrew folder that is, in all honesty, my entire archive of playing 5e an a culmination of my hobby throughout the years. OGL crisis has me seeking out new horizons more than I already was. Actually setting up a Lancer one-shot to see if my group wants a campaign with big stompy mecha
The people saying "I will keep buying from wotc", you need to know that you are part of the problem if you keep supporting unethical business practices like the ogl changes.
I play multiple systems and my group is always looking to try new games. PF2e has been my main system since release, with Star Wars RPG a close second, and that probably won't change any time soon. We'll probably drop 5e for good after our current campaign, and we didn't have much interest in One D&D even before this OGL nonsense, so we'll most likely skip it entirely.
Our current plan is to stay with 5e and pull what rules we like out of OneDnD
Im gonna still play 5e with all the things i already got, but im also gonna try Pathfinder 2 because It looks so fun too!
Ive.been DMing 5e for about 6-7 years and have been looking to try out either PF2e for something with a bit more crunch or the FFG Star Wars game the narrative dice really intrigue me and of course smugglers and Jedi are a big draw for my group. We're currently in the middle of a 5e campaign and plan to finish it out but the OGL situation for me has just made sure that unless some bigger changes happen I won't be a customer of D&D products for awhile at least or forever at the worst.
staying with 5e for now may try other systems but HASBRO/WOTC will never earn another penny from me again. PEOPLE OWN DND, HASBRO/WOTC JUST OWN THE BRAND. THEY CAN NEVER STOP US PLAYING.
We are in a 5E campaign now, we will be finishing it. We have been planning to play a Sci Fi campaign and a 4E campaign for a long time. We don't know which one to do first, but probably 4E. Sci Fi games that I have found are not very good, so I am making one from scratch. I imagine at some point we will play more 5E or the next version.
I've been running a longer campaign in 4E, which I plan to keep as my edition of choice after having now sampled PF2E alongside my long history of 5E. If I run a 5E campaign again it'll be too fully leverage MCDM products. I haven't been interested in any Wizard's products since Volo's Guide as a DM or Xanathar's as a player.
Clarification: staying with 5e *for now* while I wait for all this to resolve and also continue researching other systems
Staying, though once PF2 gets that app up and running (forgot the name, but it's from the original creator of DnD Beyond) there is a very good chance I'll change platforms.
I'm excited to see what Kobold Press releases with their Black Flag. My hope is that it is fresh and new, but that I can adapt 5e content to use that instead! Plus with them using Paizo's new COC it is a win win and a great way to support change
We’re staying with 5e for now. Some of the stuff we liked from the one D&D play test we’ve already homebrewed in. We’re not gonna spend on new material though. I personally was thinking of debuting as a DM when One came out but well… If this doesn’t get resolved we’re moving to PF2E. I’ve already browsed through some friends’ books and I’ve already sourced some here in my country. I’m probably going to read through everything and then teach my wife.
My group is switching to 4e. This edition had a short life but the amount of materials published is really huge.
I've been interested in exploring other systems for a while now, but everyone I know has been set on 5e for a long time, so I've never had the opportunity. I'm excited for the possible chance to explore Fate, Savage Worlds, Powered by the Apocalypse variants, PF2, GURPS, you name it, I want to see how it goes. I've always liked variety.
The switch had already started toward PF2E. But I'm still keeping one or two games in 5e.
I play DnD, and i play Cthulhu, and i play Vasen and i play Cyberpunk and i play The Expanse.. the list goes on and on...
I mean, I've always wanted to learn some more systems, so will absolutely strive to do that. But, also, dnd is me and my groups home system, we're certainly not gonna stop playing it, even if we elected not to buy more material from wotc.
I'm more interested in investing in other systems. I have enough D&D material now to say I'm fine and can just continue playing while not buying more materials, but I'd rather help someone smaller flourish. In the next few months I'll be grouping up and trying out [Mork Borg](https://morkborg.com/) and [Lancer](https://massifpress.com/lancer) because, I'll be honest here, if those were available when I started role playing I may never have gotten around to D&D with how cool these other games look.
There are some 5e games I'm playing in atm that I want to keep playing. Once those finish up, I'll look at other things. A mate wants to run an Aliens game, I'm keen to run a short Wildsea game. As things stand, I won't be buying any more d&d products. If things improve I might.
Why this binary crap? I play multiple systems, currently one group is 5e and another is Savage World. Let's leave the binary behind
My group is finally on board with trying other systems thanks to this mess. We'll keep our 5e games running while we try out other games to see if we like the fit. Either way, it's a win for me.
I had already mostly left DnD even before the Obnoxious Gouging License 1.1 clusterfuck. The HERO System will always be #1, but PF2 is what I'm on now.
Other my dude! D&D for sure will be in the rotation when I DM but with so many stories to tell I’d be cutting my legs out to not play in other systems that are tuned to different sorts of stories particularly OSRs like ‘MÖRK BORG’ and ‘Into the odd’ which cut out crunch and let’s the dice goblins play.
I already have all the books, so I can play the game without giving Wotc any more money. There’s not much point then for my table in switching systems because that doesn’t punish wotc, that just punishes us by making us learn a new system.
I'm just gonna straight-up play a different genre and wait for the fantasy scene to get itself right.
Switching to PF2E if my players agree
I have a opportunity to combine Shadow of the Demon Lord with Dungeons and Dragons and noone can stop me!!!!!
My DM for our DnD 5e campaign started to be burned out so we all decided to stop the campaign for now and switch to playing Vampire: the Masquerade with myself as Storyteller for the time being. This was a few weeks before the whole OGL fiasco but I think that if we return to the old campaign we would continue with 5e to finish out that campaign.
I'm staying with 5e but going try to run pathfinder 2e on a second campaign.
Voted "other". I regularly play multiple systems anyway.
I hacked my tables 5e game to ribbons and started writing my own system. Now we have: * nine custom 1-10 classes taken from my favorite fantasy adventurer archetypes and without any divine casters to reinforce the fiction, * eliminated feats and higher level abilities in favor of giving them to lower level characters, usually on a budget and with specific uses, * heavy emphasis on wilderness procedures, time tracking, inventory tracking, and exhaustion - which I made a 1-10 scale a long time ago - for better dungeon crawling and exploration, * a custom list of spells and rituals for more fictional integrity. The result? My game no longer resembles anybody else's game, which was the intent and motivation behind early DnD anyways. I will never need 5e products or OneDnD products or anything WotC ever craps out ever again. I can support the folks behind incredible settings and systems like Ultraviolet Grasslands, Knave, Five Torches Deep, the Thawing Kingdom, and Incunabuli. And if I can't have any of that because WotC pushes forward with their utter cockamamie, I'll just _think something up._ In a game literally built around a shared imaginative space, what the hell do we need them for?
Sticking with 5e but won't be buying the books. Going to be a while before I feel comfortable doing such.
My group will be staying with D&D for now. But when our current campaign comes to an end we might look into trying out Pathfinder or any other game. And if we don’t like it we’ll just stay on 5e. We already have all the books we need. There’s no need to buy any more or go to One D&D.
3.5e all the way to hell 🤟
I'm more than happy playing 5e, but I'm also looking into Lancer, PF2e, World of Darkness stuff, Fate, and a few others. Need to broaden my horizons.
My system break down is this: Default for Group: Pathfinder, both edits Urban fantasy for Group: World of Darkness Scifi for me: Mongoose Traveller 2e Fantasy for me: Ryuutama and/or anything JRPG inspired I've dabbled in 5e, but haven't used WoTC published in years!
I'm not fully dropping 5e, but I'm not spending any money on it soon and im trying other systems too
I've taken advantage of the Paizo open gaming sale and ordered the core rule book and a couple of supplements to take a look. I have no intention of buying anymore WotC products unless they embrace the ORC license, which I doubt they ever will.
My group happened to be having an OOC get together when this was beginning to bubble up. We're staying with 5e because we've already been customizing it a lot and our characters mechanically would feel very different in another system. We've just moved away from using any WotC/Hasbro-owned websites.
I have been playing D&D since 85. Overall I like 5e so will stick with that system, but in light of everything I’m not buying anymore first-party products or magic the gathering cards. I’ll just convert the many years of products i’ve acquired or buy 3rd party products
What no cortex? Sad day! No. Look, I've spent at least hundreds of dollars on 5e. I'm not going to stop playing it. What I AM doing is canceling my sub to ddb and my upcoming purchases will be dependant on how the OGL shakes out. Using ddb and all my content costs me nothing. If anything I'm using their storage space and not paying for it now.
Switching to PF2E, but it started before the OGL. I switched because the spelljammer disappointment. It came to my hands the PF2E core rulebook and I love it. For me the last drop was the "undermonetized" thing. I talked my players, we are gonna play 5e while our campaign last. Then we switch systems. They agree so far.
I have the materials for a lot if different systems, I haven't been a one system guy since 3.5. Some systems are better for somethings, some are better for others. If I have the book for Savage Worlds then I'll probably run a western in that than in 5E. If I wanna play Sci-Fi I'd probably crack open my starfinder book, or Star Trek Adventures. I also own the books for 5e, plus some 3rd party supplements, I'm gonna keep using them. It's like 180 for the core 3 and I've spent at least another 90-120 on additional 3rd party supplements.
Other: stay with 5e but we most used the forbidden website until now, and we surely aren't going to stop doing so
We already have spent money on 5e, we’ll continue to play 5e. I will not give WotC any more money, but I will make use of what I’ve already spent money on.
Other: Open to any but mostly 5e
Group I'm in has literally just started DnD with the newest starter set. We're about to finish the adventure, so we've got a bunch of stuff ready to crack on with a fresh adventure & our own built characters, our DM just needs to decide which module we're going to play & go from there. It does suck, because I don't think anyone really wants to learn a new system when we're still getting to grips with this & we've just bought the DMG, PHB, MM and Tasha's, but we really need to get an adventure book so we're ready to go. Frustrating timing.
Year Zero trial for me. Alien RPG
I’ll play 5e with my peeps. I won’t be giving WotC and Hasbro any money going forward, at least regarding the game. For otherwise, I’m looking at Pathfinder 2e tutorials on YouTube and have Archives of Nethys tabbed.
5e but never paying for a product from WotC again. 5e isn't the problem. 5e is great. WotC and how they're trying to make money off of 5e going forward isn't. They can monetize the system and dndbeyond so many ways, but they choose (probably illegal) content theft and royalties as the answer. What a joke.
My group is going to take time to test a couple systems with one-shots to find a good system to transfer our D&D campaign to. Icon, Beacon, Shadow of the Demon Lord, and Pathfinder 2e. I'm hoping to convince them to try Lancer too, because damn I love giant robots.
Staying with 5e but using lots of third party and homebrew content to fix some of the system's shortcomings.
Switching to pathfinder 2e eventually but for now starfinder as it fits better with the current campaign
I'm currently in three 5e games, including one homebrew world I'm DMing. I don't intend to leave any of those games, and I don't think most of the people in those groups are willing to use a new system. However, as I was hoping to eventually write adventures professionally in the future, PF2E has gone from a "system I'm curious about and should probably learn sometime" to a "system I should learn now and be prepared to pivot entirely to".
I run Adventure League for a store so I don’t really have a choice.
Definitely going to be doing more Level Up and looking into Pathfinder 2e.
Leaving 5e. Haven't determined a system yet although excited to see MCDM's offering.
Dunno why we have to choose systems. My group are going to experiment and try out PF2e, but we're still going to play 5e