3.5e Publishers & Designers: Will You Still Run Your Own 3.5e Material?

[elijah snow]

I'm very curious to hear from the many talented industry folks who frequent these boards- writers, designers, and publishers- what you're going to do with your own 3.5e material once 4e is released; not as designers, but as DMs and players.

I'm not asking you to speculate about future business or creative decisions, but as gamers, you must be proud of and actively use the great 3.5e setting and source material out there today- from WotC, Paizo, Green Ronin, Malhavoc, Goodman Games, Paradigm, Necromancer, Privateer Press, and many others (some of it, like Castle Whiterock, hasn't even been released yet).

So, my questions are:

Will you continue to play your own 3.5e material?
Will you do homebrew conversions of settings and source material to 4e for your own personal campaigns?
Or will you move your 3.5e material to the lower bookshelf and focus only on developing new campaign content compatible with 4e?

Respectfully,

An (open-minded) 3.5e Grognard

 

[Mouseferatu]

If I like 4E as much as the current previews lead me to believe, I'll translate over/convert what can be made to work in the new system, and either ditch or totally recreate the rest. But I strongly doubt I'll keep playing 3.5, based on what I've seen.

 

[dmccoy1693]

All my custom stuff is currently unpublished. I should hope my DM will let me play it whenever we make the jump to 4E after the current campaign ends (or sometime thereafter).

 

[TerraDave]

Hey, I have done 3.5 stuff, if just for my campaing (and the world), just check the link in my sig...oh wait...its not there. Guess that tales you, something.

 

[Vascant]

Granted I will not decide what I am doing until I read it first but based on what I have seen thus far 4e seems to be going in a direction I have no desire to follow, in many ways I view 4e as a different game and not as a new version to the existing game. I do plan to continue developing software for 3.5e for the next few years.

I do have to say though, 4e has given me some good ideas for how I wish to enhance my current 3.5e campaigns.

 

[Mark]

I run almost everything I produce.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

If I like 4E as much as the current previews lead me to believe, I'll translate over/convert what can be made to work in the new system, and either ditch or totally recreate the rest. But I strongly doubt I'll keep playing 3.5, based on what I've seen.

I'm looking forward to the DMG coming out, so I can get to work converting any non-PHB spells we've been using, prestige classes, feats, magic items and so on. I know that a lot of it will have to be recreated/approximated, but I'm sort of looking forward to that.

 

[MoogleEmpMog]

I'll continue to PUBLISH for both 3.5 and 4e when it comes to any .pdf product, because why limit the market? I'd be very surprised if it wasn't worth the time to do this. Frankly, I can't understand why 99% of .pdf releases are dual- or tri-statted into 3.5, RuneQuest and FATE right now. In terms of print products, I'll almost certainly only release for 4e once it hits shelves, because I doubt the market for 3.5 products will be sufficient to justify continuing to support it.

In terms of the material I've already produced for 3.5 - yes, I'll continue to use it, at least as long as I'm running the largely compatible Star Wars Saga Edition as my Tactics/RPG of choice. 4e looks intriguing, but it faces an uphill battle to compete with SWSE, in no small part because SWSE IS largely compatible. 4e will have to be sufficiently better than SWSE to outweigh being able to use 80% of the d20 material produced to date in a system that's already leaps and bounds better than 3.5 and d20 Modern.

 

[WayneLigon]

Or will you move your 3.5e material to the lower bookshelf and focus only on developing new campaign content compatible with 4e?

I'll do what I did with 1E Mutants and Masterminds: put it in one of the boxes in the closet. I can't keep two rules sets in my head at the same time, so if I start writing stuff for 4E, 3.5 goes in the boxes.

 

[WayneLigon]

Frankly, I can't understand why 99% of .pdf releases are dual- or tri-statted into 3.5, RuneQuest and FATE right now.

Multi-statted products tend not to do all that well. The people who don't have the products mentioned perceive it as wasted space.