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I didn't say that _only_ the younger generation will appreciate 4E, just that they are more likely to appreciate it because popular culture has changed since we were young and those changes are bound to work their way into game eventually. When I do a straw poll of fellow gamers in our...

I would say your best bet is to keep an eye on Paizo's Pathfinder. One of their stated goals is some measure of backwards compatibility with 3.5; if they pull that off not all of your old 3.5 will be invalidated. In addition, Paizo is putting out some of the best (if not the best) D&D 3.5...

Fair enough. One should probably expect to receive questions asking for examples as to why they feel it is like whatever. But that does not mean that one should be labeled as irrational just because they feel this analogy is true. If someone really wants to change another persons opinion...

Who are we to say that their fear is irrational? And I don't think it really is about fear. It is more a case of they do not like how it feels. If there is any strong emotion, it is probably feeling a bit adrift now that their RPG pass-time has left them behind by going to a place where they...

I think the point was that if some people in your group don't want to play 4E and instead want to play something else, then perhaps you should try to accommodate what they want sometimes. Perhaps you could let them run what they want on alternating weeks, or every third week, etc. In our...

But... with the changeover to 3E I remember seeing and reading lots of 3E hype before the change. Of course part of that was because I used to get a lot of my information through Dragon where they had this "Countdown to Adventure" segment that they ran for months. More-so, there was more of...

But it doesn't require anything special to kill a minion. All you need to do is hit? Why bother preparing? All you need to do is have a good attack and win initiative. In 3.x terms, the guard could just been a lower level warrior.

You clearly never played using the 2E Combat & Tactics (C&T) rules. The critical hit rules in there were more than just a little bit brutal with players crawling back to down with broken limbs, missing hands, etc. Of all versions of D&D, this is the version where the regenerate spell/power...

I don't buy this argument. I suspect that when most critics say they don't like the WoW feel they find in 4E, it is because they don't want their tabletop Fantasy Role Playing game to be (or feel to them) too much like the computer game. It's that simple. It doesn't mean they are irrational...

I'm curious why the rest of your regular gaming group was feeling apprehensive in advance. What did they believe going in about 4E? I know that around our gaming table, it also is regarded with a mixture of disdain or apprehension even though I'm the only one who regularly reads up on the...

I have to say I'm really surprised with the sorry state of DDI and Gleemax. I was more than a bit skeptical about DDI when ti was first announced, but I never expected them to be in this dismal shape so close to the actual release of 4E. Gleemax is still as awful and ugly as ever and DDI is...

You're spinning things too far to favour your own bias. I _do_ care a lot about open source in general and the OGL in particular, yet I did not select the first option. I would have to guess that I'm not the only one. I'm just not ready to be a total crusader on this particular issue and...

I don't think that's really a fair interpretation. You'd need a somewhat different question to draw the conclusion you stated. All this poll says is that only a small number of people who responded plan to not buy 4E if it does not have the 3.5 OGL (or equivalent) license). While probably...

I voted for not sure because ... I'm not sure. My original plan was to buy 4E and see if it was worthwhile converting my games (and investing in the coming round of source books), but as I've said in other threads, I'm liking the sounds of things less and less all the time. If there is no OGL...

The WOW comparison comparison was more the concept of gathering together a huge gaming party of epic to take down the big uber-boss / quasi divine thing. Okay, I admit that comparison is a bit tenuous - I originally misread something and thought the party size of epic heroes was 30 rather...

Yes, what you say is indeed true. Back in 1E there were stats for various gods (400 HP seemed to be the max hit points for any god for example), but it was never codified in the main rule books or discussed amongst the game designers in such an open way that they were designing the game with an...

This all sounds so World of Warcraft. And so not the D&D I've been playing and enjoying for the past 28+ years. To each their own, I guess, but talk of god killing being enshrined in the rules is what first tipped me off that 4E was probably not for me. Sure, minor demon lords, maybe even...

I am familiar with the work of a number designers on the 4E design team, and I do like their other work. However, even though I may like much of their other work, I don't like what they've produced this time around (Sorry Rob, Mike, Bruce et al). Sure, I'll probably pick up the core 4E books...

4) You instead choose to build your own NON COMPATIBLE version of D&D. Non-compatible? Non-compatible with what? 4.0? Or 3.5? I thought Paizo clearly stated that they aimed to be backwards compatible with 3.5? It's 4.0 that is non-compatible with anything else (that is what I've been...