D&D 4E 3 months in and 7 to go - will YOU switch to 4e?

[TerraDave]

4th edition: probably. New or old campaign: truly hard to say (or decide).

 

[Stormtower]

My current campaigns (Gaia's Dream, World of Aereth/DCC) will remain 3.5 and the 4e rules will get a test drive at someone else's table (I will probably play at a well-connected DM's table to try it out, but I won't be investing in 4e as a DM, and will only invest as a player if I am totally blown away by the rules changes. I'll definitely be playing by SRD or by someone else's PHB1 in my own 4e playtest.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

I voted other, the only campaign I am currently in is one that only has a couple of sessions a year so it is up to the DM. I would expect it to convert but I am not sure.
It the Digital table top is good and cheap then I might run an online 4.e adventure path but my current work activity is mitigating against a regular face to face campaign.

 

[timbannock]

I've never been disappointed with D&D as a whole upon release of a new edition (I've been around since late 1E), so I'll certainly be picking up the 4E PHB.

Now, if it rocks my socks, I'll start fresh: new campaign and all.

If it's a good game, but awfully different from what I expect, I've still got plenty of 3.5 stuff to run (WLD, City of Brass, Pathfinder, Dungeon Magazine, etc.) and will relegate 4E to "whenever we want to play something else."

If it stinks (which I *highly* doubt), I'll suffer the loss and keep the PHB in case I want to play it later, or to mine ideas from.

If it's anything like the Wildside Fantasy Role Play* system, I'll track down the designers and kill every last one of them.



*If you've never heard of this, you're a very, very lucky person.

 

[withak]

I run three 3.5e play-by-forum campaigns, and those will remain 3.5e until their conclusion. I will likely start a 4e play-by-forum campaign as soon as I can get my hands on the books (or SRD, if it is available early enough), but it may prove unpopular at my forum. The best players are the old-timers, and they have already voiced their opposition to 4e, though that may change.

As for real-life tabletop gaming, my current group uses 2e, and I'm not the DM. At some point, I'd like to take over the DM role and introduce the group to 3.5e (or 4e, if it's out at that point) but that will probably be a tough sell, also. :\

 

[McBard]

Other: my group burned out on 3.5 about a year and a half ago, and so there's no "conversion" to 4.0 in store because there's nothing to convert. We'll try out 4.0, but if it doesn't address the reasons why we quit 3.5, then we probably won't even start a fresh campaign with it either.

 

[GoodKingJayIII]

I probably won't convert because I find I don't really have the time to play like I used to.

 

[Papa-DRB]

Staying with 3.5E

I have enough material to run at least 7 more 1-20 (and a 1-30) campaigns and at the pace the my guys go thru that is about 15 years. So I'll just stick with 3.5E till 2022 or so when 7.0E comes out and see what that looks like!

-- david
Papa-DRB

 

[Jedi_Solo]

While I'm a player and not the groups DM...

I fully expect that we will finish whatever campaign we will be playing when the books are released. Hopefully there will have been enough time for us to get a good look at the new rule set.

I think we'll decide at that point if we'll actually switch over or not and if we did it would be a new campaign.

 

[Simon Marks]

The games we have currently running will run til their end. With 3.5, however, that means wrapping up about 12th level when we start at 4th.

I guess we'll run both for a bit, and carry on the one we like the most.

We have ... 3 campaigns currently running. Only one will probably be still running next year.