Will I still love my girlfriend in 4th Edition?

[EditorBFG]

Once 4th Edition comes out, how different will my life be? Will I feel and think differently?

I ask because I think I've found the person I want to spend my life with now, but I am concerned that my old emotions and experiences won't port over correctly to the new edition. Will our love be compatible with the streamlining of character choices and pared down stat blocks, or will efforts at converting to the new system be fruitless? With the more limited array of magic items and buffs, will my personal qualities still mesh with hers so perfectly?

Will the Digital Initiative require me to pay a monthly fee to enjoy the easy companionship and continued peace of mind my relationship has brought me since the advent of 3.5? In a world with at least one core race removed and even certain base classes no longer supported, does a love like ours make sense anymore? Will living with her continue to make me more thankful every day to have found a companion whose happiness is so contagious, or will Star Wars Saga style static defenses eliminate the variety that gives our relationship its spark?

I need to know, because if not, I think I need to start planning to move out before the 4E PHB comes out in May and our former love begins to seem cloying and stale. That, or maybe-- just maybe-- I'll retire my dark elven archmage for good and try to make things work by getting into a non-d20 rpg, like one of those narrative games with the Jenga blocks.

In any case, if a representative of WotC could contact me regarding these changes ASAP, I would appreciate it. Whatever the answer, I have some big decisions to make.

 

[The Merciful]

Well, I have read from a WotC developer that in the play tests the needed relationship upkeep time is lessened. 4th Edition should be smoother.

 

[EditorBFG]

Well, I have read from a WotC developer that in the play tests the needed relationship upkeep time is lessened. 4th Edition should be smoother.

That is, indeed, good news, but I am still concerned about compatibility-- especially my girl's Sunshine on a Cloudy Day spell-like ability. In 4th Edition, when it is cold outside, will I still have the month of May?

Hopefully, a WotC representative will get back to me on these issues soon.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

While not direct from WotC, I did find this about a 4.0 upgrade:

Girlfriend 2.0 - 4.0 Upgrade.

I'm currently running the latest version of GirlFriend and I have been having some problems lately. I have been running the same version of DrinkingBuddies 1.0 forever as my primary application, and all the Girlfriend releases I have tried have always conflicted with it. I hear that Drinking Buddies runs fine as long as Girlfriend is ran in background mode and the sound is turned off.
Unfortunately, I can't find the switch to turn the sound off. Therefore, I have to run both of them separately. Girlfriend also seems to have a problem coexisting with my Golf program, often trying to abort Golf with some form of timing incompatibilities.

I probably should have stayed with Girlfriend 1.0, but I thought I might see better performance from GirlFriend 2.0. After months of conflicts and other problems, I consulted a friend who has had experience with Girlfriend 2.0. He said I probably didn't have enough cache to run Girlfriend 2.0 and eventually it would require a Token Ring to run properly. He was right, as soon as I purged my cache, and realized that no one in their right mind is installing new token rings, Girlfriend 2.0 uninstalled itself.

Shortly after that, I installed Girlfriend 3.0 beta. Unfortunately, there was a bug in the program and the first time I used it, it gave me a virus. I had to clean out my whole system and shut down for a while. I very cautiously upgraded to Girlfriend 4.0. This time I used SCSI probe first and also installed a virus protection program. It worked okay for a while until I discovered that GirlFriend 1.0 was still in my system. I tried running Girlfriend 1.0 again with Girlfriend 4.0 still installed, but Girlfriend 4.0 has a feature I didn't know about that automatically senses the presence of any other version of Girlfriend and communicates with it in some way. This results in the immediate removal of both versions.

The version I have now works pretty well, but there are still some problems. Like all versions of GirlFriend, it is written in some obscure language I can't understand, much less reprogram. Frankly, I think there is too much attention paid to the look and feel rather than the desired functionality.

Also, to get the best connections with your hardware, you usually have to use gold-plated contacts and I have never liked how GirlFriend is “object-oriented.”

A year ago a friend of mine upgraded his version of Girlfriend to GirlFriendPlus 1.0, which is a Terminate and Stay Resident version of GirlFriend. He discovered that GirlFriendPlus 1.0 expires within a year if you don't upgrade to Fiance 1.0. So he did, but soon after that, he had to upgrade to Wife 1.0, which he describes as a huge resource hog. It has taken up all his space: He can't load anything else. One of the primary reasons he decided to go with Wife 1.0 was because it supposedly came bundled with a feature called FreeSex Plus.

Well, it turns out the resource requirements of Wife 1.0 sometimes prohibits access to FreeSexPlus, particularly the new Plug-ins he wanted to try. On top of that, Wife 1.0 must be running on a well warmed-up system before he can do anything. Although he did not ask for it, Wife 1.0 came with MotherInLaw which has an automatic pop-up feature he can't turn off. I told him to trying installing Mistress 1.0, but he said he heard if you try to run it without first uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney files before uninstalling itself. Then Mistress 1.0 won't install because of insufficient resources.

P.S. Watch out for the K-I-D-S virus because they have an insatiable appetite for memory and CPU time over and above everything else above.

 

[thundershot]

Rofl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[HeyJoe]

Girlfriends are overrated and should be removed completely from 4e, or any other gaming environment unless they also share interest in said game.

 

[blargney the second]

They'll be introducing some electronic aids that should help keep things exciting and active.
-blarg

 

[HeyJoe]

They'll be introducing some electronic aids that should help keep things exciting and active.
-blarg

Sounds good. Replace the inherent drama with simple gratification.

 

[krissbeth]

Your girlfriend will be replaced with a tiefling.

 

[KenSeg]

Will you still love your girlfriend in 4E?

No, but we will.

-KenSeg
gaming since 1978