not surprised
Personally I am not surprised that in many respects DDN more closely resembles the older editions of the game before adding modules. Given the stated desgin goal it would have been surprising to me if it had looked like 4.75 at first glimpse.
In order to create a game that appeals to fans of all editions they had to start from a distilled or stripped down rule set and then provide add ons allowing people to customize the game to resemble the edition which more closely resembles the playstyle they prefer. So seeing a game that in some respects echos 1E shouldn't be a surprise. I'm sure the 4E playstyle modules will comes as well as the 3E ones and the 2E ones plus whatever innovations that come up with to make DDN an E unto itself.
In some regards the panic from 4E fans is not unlike what we saw here when WotC told us 3E wasn't fun or cool and announced 4E was coming except in theory this time no one needs to be left behind. In my mind thats a beautiful thing.
Personally I am not surprised that in many respects DDN more closely resembles the older editions of the game before adding modules. Given the stated desgin goal it would have been surprising to me if it had looked like 4.75 at first glimpse.
In order to create a game that appeals to fans of all editions they had to start from a distilled or stripped down rule set and then provide add ons allowing people to customize the game to resemble the edition which more closely resembles the playstyle they prefer. So seeing a game that in some respects echos 1E shouldn't be a surprise. I'm sure the 4E playstyle modules will comes as well as the 3E ones and the 2E ones plus whatever innovations that come up with to make DDN an E unto itself.
In some regards the panic from 4E fans is not unlike what we saw here when WotC told us 3E wasn't fun or cool and announced 4E was coming except in theory this time no one needs to be left behind. In my mind thats a beautiful thing.