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It was influential for me. I imagine if this class had never come about, I would have filed psionics along with the 1e barbarian, cavalier, and drow in the "too munchkin to allow" department. Instead, it evolved its own place in our games, a class with a unique feel. The Deryni article helped...

Absolutely. Unless I'm somehow a captive audience, such as needing gas to drive to work, I don't consider selling a product to be a "money grab". I just don't assign that much ethical negativity to the act of trying to sell me a luxury product. It's up to me decide whether the product they are...

I guess we differ on this, then. 4e authors made the succubus a devil and eliminated the erineyes, and changed much of the backstory. That, I'll grant you. There are parts of the cosmology that are much more inconsistent between 4e and 1e-3e. Nonetheless, my point was not isolated to this...

Why you throw chip?

I imagine Wolfgang prefers the feeling of warm food in his stomach over the warm feeling of having created a democratic microcosm. ;)

More or less. :) From what I had seen, the excitement for fighter types was generally the thrill of hitting and doing damage, the occasional crit. At worst, the fighters find out that some vaunted attack form doesn't work for some reason ("Grapple the wizard"/"he has free action, crap!") and...

I don't like edition wars, but you know, people are wrong on the internet. EDIT: In case it wasn't clear: ;)

Sorry, I mis-typed. I meant "when resisting the change is unhealthy...". I.E. Substantially the same as what you have said here: So, unlike the situation of adapting to new tools, software engineering best practices (yeah, I'm a software engineer), etc., accepting the change to 4e is not...

As I posited in a thread long ago (here), Union needs to be more like RIFTS Atlantis. If the city needs epic-level power, it doesn't need would-be-generals serving as constables, it needs powerful beings that logically fit into the city:

Indeed. The OP seems to implicitly posit that 4e is the change that must be adapted to; I think this betrays the OP's preference. When, in point of fact, the OP's job and experience is people adapting to changes they can't change. People who AREN'T upgrading ARE adapting to change. Nothing...

In all fairness, more 4e adventures would be good. WotC sort of cut their own wrists with the whole GSL debacle. EDIT: But I'm still in for 3e. ;)

Wow. It was looking like a landslide for 4e in this thread, then I noticed that Arawn said he hopes it's 4e a bunch of times. Anyways, I hope it's 3e. ;)

Looking at Mongoose Traveller or possibly maybe a sequel to my Rocket Corps game.

In Traveller, your characters spend a lot of time in jump space. This is a great time for "Orient Express" type isolated murder mystery or strange phenomenon type games. But 9 times out of 10, the time just passes, and gets used for training by the pcs (well, in editions that give you that...

If I were to buy them, I would reward wizards for straying from what I want to see in a game. That's the last thing I want to do. I sat down with them at Borders, and then voted "no" with my wallet.

I went with the third option, but really, what I would want to see would be such a total change in direction, it probably wouldn't be realistic to expect it in the space of 4e. But to put a face on it: More continuity with pre-4e canon. Trash 4e wizard and replace it with one with the breadth...

79-09. (Nearly) 30 years of gaming.

I like the way you think. :)

Absolutely. One of the chief complaints I am hearing about the 4e MotP*is that the writing goes from very good in one section to very poor in the next. * - other than it feels awful thin... not that its any different than any other recent book, but contrasting it with the 3e MotP probably...

Did I say anything indicating I thought it was a mechanical limit? Did Union have a mechanical limit? In both cases, no. You are missing the point. My concern here is that the implicit level will become a design approach driver, just like Epic Levels was for Union. And I can't help but think...