Role: Player Female Elf Cleric and for now I also control a Female Tiefling as the player left the group

Playing Since: Playing RPGs since sometime in the early 90’s, possibly 1992 but can’t remember exactly.  Played all D&D versions from Ad&D 2nd Edition onwards.

Location: Manchester, UK

Campaigns: For 5E – Forgotten Realms.  I’m not going attempt to list everything I have played since 1992.

Playtime: Current Campaign has been going a couple of years now but with some breaks.  Originally started with 3.5 (because 4E sucked balls) and have recently moved to 5.

Number of Players: Four (formerly Five)

Last D&D Product Bought: Probably something for 3.5.  I don’t personally own any 5E products. I did buy a miniature from the Waterdeep Heist range, does that count?

Next to Buy: Nothing, I play 5E because that’s what thee GM wants ru but honestly I’m not massively impressed with it.  More likely to focus on extras for Conan RPG

Other: I have mixed views on the game.  Mechanically it’s easy and I quite like that.  The advantage/disadvantage system is pretty cool and personally I prefer it to the flat +2 bonus/penalty system of old.  The action rolls are almost unchanged since 3E, only the means of calculating the target number has changed – but it ain’t broke so why fix it?
On the other hand I hate character creation and development.  It’s so strongly definited and offers very little choice to the player.  It’s OK for beginners but after 27 years of gaming I need more than it offers.
I hate the action structure of Move/action/Bonus action.  It’s definitely inferior to 3.5 and is probably one of the most confusing aspects of combat with all the caveats of what can and cannot be performed depending on what you have and have not already done.
It also still feels a bit Boardgamey with wording like “an opponent’s reverse edge”.
Add to that there’s a few things that I think are intrinsic to D&D that have been there forever that I don’t think are going away and so I can’t level those criticisms at 5E but they include the scaling between levels (Hit POINTS, Damage Output, money) and the alignmen system.

@spaced2020 when you say you dislike the low magic setting is the game or specific to the setting you’re in?  We’re still relatively low level in our game so magic items hasn’t really been an issue yet and not being a GM I haven’t looked into what is and isn’t available in Forgotten Realms.

Role: Dungeon Master (Cleric is my favorite class on the very rare occasion when I do get to play)

Playing Since: Playing RPGs since the summer of 1980

Location: Metro Detroit area, Michigan, USA

Campaigns: Almost exclusively home brew content for the last almost twenty years, I do throw the occasional store bought idea or adventure into the mix.

Playtime: Well, almost 40 years but I think you are asking something else here.  I run 5e for three different groups, between them we meet almost every Friday and Saturday night, we take one of each off each month for some private/family time.  Our sessions are usually 5-6 hours long, they use to be 7-9 when we were younger.

Number of Players: Group one has 5, group two has 4, group three(my “veteran” group that the has been together for 21 years now) has 5 although 1 player is new to the group and the game.

Last D&D Product Bought: Literally just bought Dungeon of the Mad Mage this morning.

Next to Buy: Not sure. Nothing left that I want to buy for 5e of which I am aware.

Other: While I do like this edition for its streamlining and ease of play I find the “dumbing down” of magic spells and a few of the combat rules a little annoying.  I am still not sure why but advantage and disadvantage REALLY wear on me during play.

One of my favorite systems to play in is GURPS and one of my groups is switching back to that at the end of their current campaign, which should wrap up around the end of February.