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I have been tweaking the vancian casting system for quite a while now on my own.  I already use saving throw DCs that aren't attached to spell levels.  So...  that is technically in DDN, and I am using it.  In the future I plan on moving that over to a more advanced ruleset that I am writing up, so I will probably get  away from the flat DC, but I still won't calculate based on spell levels.

Although I am not using their exact system... so.  I don't know, does that still count? 

I guess the honest answer is no.  I haven't seen any system in D&DN that I like better than the ones I currently use.  I am open to change, but I need to see something that provides me with a genuine improvement. 

No. I am also unlikely to ever purchase 5th Edition.

Mar 3, 2013 -- 10:11PM, Chakravant wrote:

I like the concepts behind maneuvers and MDD, and would love to incorporate them into the martial classes of other editions.  It would be too much effort to come up with better maneuvers (the current ones are rather lackluster) and incorporate them along with MDD.

So while in theory I'd like to, I'm not going to.

Same; the idea of MDD fueling maneuvers is something that I would be interested in exporting to something like Pathfinder. The background system is also reasonably interesting. Those are Next's only real exportable ideas, though. There's some stuff that's interesting sourcebook design but not cleanly exportable, like defining "domains" in terms of broad deity archetypes and actually giving that choice a big impact on clerical ability. Everything else is just old stuff, often done badly. It's nothing like 13th Age, which was practically made to have its ideas exported into other systems and is full of cool, rich, novel ideas. (It's also not essentially complete like 13th Age is.)

The only thing I can port would be Bounded Accuracy, and even then it doesn't seem worth the effort except for very specific campaigns.

Skill die might work, but I already found a background system that's far superior to 5E's -- or any other edition's -- so there's that.  Advantage/Disadvantage?  I wanted to try that out in 4E when 5E first came out, but comparing that with the Escalation Die (which is far more pro-player, realism be damned), and because the 4E Avenger was born with Advantage (see: Oath of Enmity), I'd say that the Advantage/Disadvantage mechanic is probably better off in other game systems... maybe.

Martial damage dice?  No thanks.  Even I'm still iffy on the 13th Age version of Fighter maneuvers, I'd prefer that over 5E MDD.   Then again, there's the method used to clamp down on spells... might work, but nah, I have a different solution in mind for that....maybe I'll test it some time, when I'm in the mood.

So what would I definitely port from 5E?  Well, I'll have to wait and see, because as it stands I'm far more likely to port into 5E than the other way around...