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Yeah, I don't think it's an especially good move, but it might be the only one they have left (at least as they see it), if their goal is to win back lapsed customers that hated their current product. That said, they'd be relying an awful lot on the goodwill of those existing 4e customers with...

The "real" answer to that is, of course, as long as you want it to. There are ways of setting such things up locally, at least as far as the compendium goes, and by now CBLoader is quite widespread. Also, Masterplan. If 4e DDi support goes the way of the dodo, perhaps the power2ool guy (...

That's the core of my pet theory as to why it looks like 4e is getting taken out behind the barn and shot (then broadcast for all to see). They're making a public spectacle of hating on 4e-isms because it scores cheap points with a certain demographic that they would love to "win back," and my...

Yes, I agree with you in that I don't support the arguments that the OP was making about the community, and the numbers can speak to that, to at least some degree. That said, I think there is a grain of truth there, even if the arguments don't make a lot of sense. I think if the poll in...

Yep, as I understand it, that's how it works. It also doesn't sound like it prevents you from taking MC feats either.

The gist of it is that you can take a level in another class any time you gain a level, and you get whatever that class gets at that level (including hp) instead of what you'd normally get. No limit to the number of other classes you can MC into this way. You don't get any other benefit or class...

This was one I was looking forward to for the MC rules. I suspect that this is the result of what they'd worked on, what? a year ago? Two? and then abandoned. I further suspect that they abandoned it in part because of Next and in part because these rules are utterly broken :) I both like...

I just want to comment on those numbers a little bit. I'm not counting the 'ambivalent' votes because they either don't care, or are reserving judgment for after release, or will just play whatever the new edition is regardless. I'll point out that while slightly less than 50% of respondents...

Yeah, this basically covers it, for the most part.

That's a pretty big leap there, buddy. Neither of us said we won't play it, in fact AA said exactly the opposite. Thanks for putting words in our mouths though. FWIW, I would also play it (I'll play just about anything), and I have said so in other threads about Next (maybe this one too...

No worries; you have at least one person that agrees with you, and likely more. I can think of several posters who would gladly back you up on this. Agreed, to both posts.

I am not expecting "too much" from the playtest "too soon." Unless you interpret what I want as some half-baked tack-on module, which isn't what I want at all, nor is it what I'm talking about. And most comments downplaying the concerns of 4e advocates run along this route; "don't worry, you'll...

Still flogging that old horse, eh? I have said this many times in many threads, that it will take a lot more than just 'tactical rules module, and done' to capture what it is that I like about 4e, and I don't think that I'm alone here. There is a lot more to the feel and play of that edition...

Yes, I see that, but his example was pretty vague. It wasn't enough to really see what he means by that, and so not enough to determine whether or not I think it's a good idea. Again, I read what he wrote, but not seeing the full idea in the context of the rest of the game, or even more...

I had been doing this but it seemed to have little effect. I guess my opinion is in the minority. Many of the things I complained about continue to drift further from my preferences, not closer to them. I would liken this more to making a decision to buy a car when all I've seen is the specs on...

Yep, this nails it. The complainers saying that Next "isn't what they want, so they won't buy into it," aren't (necessarily) saying that they won't play it, but they are saying (generally) that they don't want to run it. They're speaking as chef, not as diner. Obviously, some of the complainers...

I didn't find this column to be particularly 'offensive' - just more of the same stuff we've been getting lately - vague and hard to see through, like the fog cloud spell he was referencing. Reading these columns lately puts me in mind of hearing one end of a telephone conversation and trying to...

I don't agree with this part of your statement. I don't think it is at all fair or accurate to characterize ALL AD&D fans as being sympathetic to the tastes and opinions of 3.x fans. At all. I know personally quite a few who actually prefer 4e's approach to 3e, and many old-schoolers who've...

I am also experiencing these issues. Been going on for several days at least, on and off. Annoying!

Likewise, you haven't really explained anything to me about your point of view that resonates any more than "this is the way they're doing it, and I agree with them." First of all, I'm not arguing with you. I already stated that I'm not trying to win you (or anyone else) over. I just don't care...