I guess I'm okay with waiting on the book until the stars align and bookstores everywhere have the appropriate number of cases of books. It's the dribbling of info about the new system that's really starting to piss me off.
W/3ed they gave us enough info to drown in every month for a year...
Until I see the detail, nothing. And it would have to be a very significant change for me to lay down money. It would have to do something on the order of doing away with classes or having a non-Vancian magic system; something of that magnitude. Like the change from 2ed to 3ed. If it's just...
I'd be very happy to move to a theoretical 4e, if it were better. And by better I mean still a ROLE PLAYING GAME!!! I'd be eager to buy a better D&D or d20 system. I'd be thrilled to drop $100 in WotC's coffers for a new, better D&D book.
I'm not interested in a D&D boardgame nor am I...
Oh, I was primed for 4e almost as soon as 3e came out. But I was hoping for the opposite of what they're talking about. I have always thought that 3e leans too far in the direction of a board/mini game. I was hoping 4e would bring it back the other way.
Looks like I'm out voted.
Maybe...
The only part of Ryan's message that sounds good to me is the part where a 3rd party takes over producing D&D. Oh, wait, is he saying that he doesn't want that? :)
There is going to be an official Firefly RPG; well actually it's called Serenity RPG because it's licenced for the movie Serenity (yep, a Firefly theatrical release!) coming in the fall. All I've heard is that it's not d20 (a good thing) and that it's going to be put together by margaret weis...