How soon will you switch?

[Goken100]

How come there's not an option for "even before it comes out!" I plan to execute as many Black Scout Maneauvers as possible at D&D Experience, so come February no 4th Edition secrets will be beyond my grasp! HUMAHAHA!

 

[Baby Samurai]

Like many others, I will switch once my current campaign (3.75 Planescape) wraps up – probably sometime next year.

Now to think of what campaign setting I will be introducing 4th Ed with?

 

[Baby Samurai]

How come there's not an option for "even before it comes out!" I plan to execute as many Black Scout Maneauvers as possible at D&D Experience, so come February no 4th Edition secrets will be beyond my grasp!

I know what you mean, what with my group implementing many of the Saga changes and other tidbits, we are basically playing 3.75 or what have you.

 

[Wanderer20]

As long I consider 4E a way to get money and NOT a way to improve the game, I won't switch, and luckily this is my group's way, so I'll be able to continue playing.

 

[mhensley]

Just as soon as I can get a copy of H1. Too bad they moved that back to May.

 

[Wormwood]

If 4e is less of a pain in my ass to DM and play than 3.5, then I'll be switching immediately.

 

[Pinotage]

Interesting. I have almost the exact opposite point of view. I'm planning to switch immediately, so that I can be PART of the community banging away on the rules, discussing the problems, and coming up with house rules.

Yip. Although I won't buy the core books until this has been done. I'll probably take a good look at the SRD first, bang it around in the community, and if I like what I see, I'll switch then. 3.5e was a big improvement on 3e, and I'm hoping I feel the same way about 4e.

Pinotage

 

[kenmarable]

I would switch right away (as long as the rules are half as good as the hype is claiming), except that I have far too many 3.5 adventures I still want to run (Savage Tide, a couple Expedition To's, GameMastery Modules, etc.). Not to mention, as a player, there's still classes I want to explore since the weird, quirky stuff they publish at the end with alternate classes and such is what I like the most. I'm not done with my incarnum, binders, and such.

So, although the rules sound good to me, my main home campaigns will probably stay 3.5 well into 2009.

However, as a freelance writer, I'll be all over those rules as soon as I can get my grubby hands on them. (Any publishers getting the rules early and want a writer willing to work cheap to see them?) With the writing, I'll of course run small adventures and encounters for playtesting purposes. But for out and out campaigns, I still have too many 3.5 ones to run.

 

[Baby Samurai]

If 4e is less of a pain in my ass to DM and play than 3.5, then I'll be switching immediately.

Yes, I agree, 3rd edition is a bit polluted.

 

[GlassJaw]

If it's good, I will probably switch right away. If it's not, I won't switch, at least for a while and quite possibly never.

Whereas 3E was a vast improvement over 1/2ed, I can do so much with d20 system now that 4E really has a much more difficult task to win me over. 3E could have probably just done away with THAC0 and I still would have switched.