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View Poll Results: Changeover Poll
Complete Changeover: All 4E played now, no earlier editions of D&D
387
30.38%
Largely over: Mostly 4E played now, some earlier edition play
76
5.97%
Half over: Half 4E played now, half earlier edition play
51
4.00%
Partial Changeover: Some 4E played now, mostly earlier edition play
22
1.73%
Slight Changeover: A little 4E played now, mostly earlier edition play
35
2.75%
No Change: Tried 4E, went back to earlier edition play
371
29.12%
No Change: Never tried 4E, all earlier edition play
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Originally Posted by Korgoth
Really. If this poll showed that everyone on EN World had switched to 4E you wouldn't be complaining about it.
I know I would, and I'm a 4e fan. I feel it a solemn duty of my life's work to pop into all polls on EN World, regardless of results or question, and state how ludicrous they are.*
(Of course, I still vote in them. Chalk it up with Oprah, Skittles, and N'Sync in my list o' guilty pleasures.)
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* This is normally followed shortly thereafter with someone (usually Psion) mentioning that I wouldn't pop in if the poll results favored my own vote.**
** This is usually followed by me being an ass in my response.***
*** This is usually followed by someone (most often Rel) suspending my account for some time.****
**** And, finally, this is usually followed by me watching Oprah on mute, stuffing myself with Skittles, and listening to some of the low-down, funky, melancholic rifts of N'Sync.
Last edited by Wisdom Penalty; 31st December 2008 at 02:00 AM..
Changeover: 31%
No Changover: 57%
Partial Changeover: 12%
Another comment (laughs lightly)
When I had the first Changeover Poll, the Edition Wars uproar came into it.
No Edition Wars this time. Everyone has been extremely courteous, extraordinarily polite and congenial, especially compared to the first poll (So much so, that it is like Mr. Roger's Neighborhood in comparison. I like this! )
But there is something new, and I shall give it a name ... Poll Wars! : )
But it is not something I think anyone in the Galaxy should be concerned about, any more than they should be concerned about the results of this poll.
EDIT: Eastern Asia and Australia are comimg in for their second round at this poll, and they seem pro-Changeover, so those rooting for Changeover, watch your numbers rise.
Voted "tried 4e, switched back to an older game." Really, we're playing SWSE right now (if 4e was like THIS instead...), and will probably try out Pathfinder when it comes out...
Add me to "Changeover Completely". I be fine with playing 3.5 with the right DM. But when it comes to my preferred game for playing and the only one I will DM (of D&D editions) is 4e.
If you check the other, previous thread, a statistics teacher laid down the law as to why (and in which ways) Edena's poll was valid and the ways in which it wasn't.
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To be honest, I had thought the numbers would be different this time around. I argued that there were a number of posters, back in the original poll, that like me were in the middle of a 3e (or whatever) campaign and would likely switch over when that ended and the whole "splitting the fanbase" thing wasn't as large as it appeared.
Well, it appears that I was wrong. The split is very much there. A real shame I suppose. Although it does speak a lot to the strength of the 3e ruleset I suppose.
In any case, I'm more than big enough (hey, stop with the fat jokes, I'm sensitive) to admit when I'm mistaken.
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And then you'll have the 4e-to-5e flamewar, polls about who is switching over, posts commenting about how the poll is meaningless, and how their vote isn't a choice. Then someone will mention Adolf Hitler and...
No change; tried it, went back to a previous edition.
I don't really get the calls of ballot stuffing, as most of the comments on this thread have been the same as mine. Going by those comments, the poll has been somehow scewed in 4e's favor, if anything ;p
__________________ Psionics are too sci-fi, not like the traditional method of spell casting that has existed only in D&D, involves research, laboratory work, and formulas, and was cribbed directly from a series of science fiction novels. I mean, come on, calling forth the power to alter the world from your own center of will? That's not magical in the slightest! Not at all like my wizard's spell "Telepathy!"
Tried 4e for a few sessions, didn't like it- went back to 3.5.
Reading all the pro and con arguments in this thread- I have reached one firm conclusion: I like polls (not necessarily for their accuracy, clarity, or use- but I like clicking the vote button).
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