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<blockquote data-quote="Varianor Abroad" data-source="post: 2988917" data-attributes="member: 12425"><p>Strangely enough, so am I. I wrote a tournament adventure for Gen Con within the past week. Last week I made the design decision to reduce a lot of the rules to cards for the DMs to prop up for players to see, or to pass out as needed. Then along comes this thread. I think we're already thinking in that direction. Logically. (So the real heroes here are who? Fiery Dragon? The guys at TSR who thought up the old Monster Cards? Or some nameless Italian who imported pasteboard cards from the Muslims? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> )</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That I'm not worried about. I budget, and I buy books as needed. As noted upthread, 4E means I just wait to get discounted copies of the rest of the current product that I want.</p><p></p><p>No, what a new edition means to me is a loss of mastery. Monte Cook wrote about this. As gamers, we like to know the ins and outs and all abouts of the rules. People are bewailing the potential loss of their success at knowing the current rules. I still suspect many of us (myself possibly among them) will buy the new edition and figure it out. Not likely in my case if it's not including Open Game Content though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Varianor Abroad, post: 2988917, member: 12425"] Strangely enough, so am I. I wrote a tournament adventure for Gen Con within the past week. Last week I made the design decision to reduce a lot of the rules to cards for the DMs to prop up for players to see, or to pass out as needed. Then along comes this thread. I think we're already thinking in that direction. Logically. (So the real heroes here are who? Fiery Dragon? The guys at TSR who thought up the old Monster Cards? Or some nameless Italian who imported pasteboard cards from the Muslims? ;) ) That I'm not worried about. I budget, and I buy books as needed. As noted upthread, 4E means I just wait to get discounted copies of the rest of the current product that I want. No, what a new edition means to me is a loss of mastery. Monte Cook wrote about this. As gamers, we like to know the ins and outs and all abouts of the rules. People are bewailing the potential loss of their success at knowing the current rules. I still suspect many of us (myself possibly among them) will buy the new edition and figure it out. Not likely in my case if it's not including Open Game Content though. [/QUOTE]
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