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<blockquote data-quote="Trouvere" data-source="post: 3706544" data-attributes="member: 37250"><p>I really don't see much reason to switch LEW to 4e, especially not right out of the starting gate before the inevitable errata, unless it turns out to be an astonishing gameplay improvement over 3.5 (and a sizeable majority of active LEW players agree that it is!). It's not as though LEW really needs to keep 'current', since as it is we use only a tiny fraction of the 3.5 material that exists.</p><p>There's a good chance from what little I've read about 4e that it might not be possible to convert existing 3.5 LEW characters meaningfully. If 4e melee classes go ToB-style, for example, converted fighters won't retain much more than their names.</p><p>I fear that requiring the retirement of current characters would really knock LEW on the head. Part of the attraction (and frustration!) of the world is that some people here have spent 3 or 4 years building up a character from 1st level to the dizzying heights of... well, 6th or 7th level, mostly. If we re-start with 1st level 4e characters, all that effort gets wiped out. Some people just won't be able to be bothered doing it all again (and eventually we'll just have the same restart problem 5 years down the track when 4.5 or 5e comes out). If the 3.5ers retire from adventuring and we start over with higher level replacement characters, we lose the L from LEW, that sense of ongoing continuity, even if some characters <em>can</em> be more or less converted and still feel like the same people.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trouvere, post: 3706544, member: 37250"] I really don't see much reason to switch LEW to 4e, especially not right out of the starting gate before the inevitable errata, unless it turns out to be an astonishing gameplay improvement over 3.5 (and a sizeable majority of active LEW players agree that it is!). It's not as though LEW really needs to keep 'current', since as it is we use only a tiny fraction of the 3.5 material that exists. There's a good chance from what little I've read about 4e that it might not be possible to convert existing 3.5 LEW characters meaningfully. If 4e melee classes go ToB-style, for example, converted fighters won't retain much more than their names. I fear that requiring the retirement of current characters would really knock LEW on the head. Part of the attraction (and frustration!) of the world is that some people here have spent 3 or 4 years building up a character from 1st level to the dizzying heights of... well, 6th or 7th level, mostly. If we re-start with 1st level 4e characters, all that effort gets wiped out. Some people just won't be able to be bothered doing it all again (and eventually we'll just have the same restart problem 5 years down the track when 4.5 or 5e comes out). If the 3.5ers retire from adventuring and we start over with higher level replacement characters, we lose the L from LEW, that sense of ongoing continuity, even if some characters [I]can[/I] be more or less converted and still feel like the same people. [/QUOTE]
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