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

[Lord Fyre]

I don't know yet. I haven't actualy seen what the rules look like, just speculation and rumor.

Let me actually review the rules, then I will decide what to do.

 

[Maggan]

Other.

Continue with Age of Worms, and start something new with 4e. I'll also continue my WFRP campaign, and we'll run some shorter sessions trying out a lot of other games of various kinds. A session once a week is bliss, paired with a group where every single player also is a game master when they feel like it.

To me, it's not an "either or" proposition. It's more like "another option, yeah!".

/M

 

[sjmiller]

For now, we are going to stay with our 3.0 (modified) game. When this campaign ends we will be switching to GURPS I think. I am kind of tired of D&D, looking forward to the 30s era noir/steampunk superhero campaign we'll be doing then.

 

[ShinHakkaider]

Based on all of the amazing information that we have received thus far, my plan is to stick with my 3.X homebrew, and adapt bits of 4e that I like to my own ruleset.

Yeah this is pretty much me at this point. Knowing what little I know about 4E, I've already started adapting certain things to my 3.5 games. Even though I'm not really excited about 4E the one good thing that I can say about it is that it made me start looking at things that I can do to make my 3.5 games more interesting for myself as well as my players. I've adopted the Second Wind thing from SW:Saga Edition to my game, action points from Unearthed Arcana, and some of the reserve feats from the various spaltbooks, particularly Touch of Healing, which I'm thinking of using it to replace the spontaneous healing that clerics have.

I started re-reading the chapter on Zones in Mastering Iron Heroes and realized that I'd pretty much been doing this sort of thing all along except that MIH kind of formalized what I was doing. I said that one of the reasons that I was not switching over to 4E was that it was going to invalidate the crunch of a lot of my books. Now it seems that there was a lot of good crunch that I can use for my games right now. When 4E comes out I'm fairly certain that I'm not switching over, but I will pillage it for things that I can port over to my 3.5 game.

Yay! (kind of...) 4E!

 

[Tortoise]

I run multiple groups in Ptolus.

One group will convert the best we can and continue. Another will finish out the campaign and then start fresh. The third group may or may not exist after the end of this year.

 

[drothgery]

I picked 'a fresh start with 4e' as it seems most likely to me. Our current 3.5 game should wrap before June (as we've got no interest in Epic level play and we'll all be 18th level the next time we get XP), and I'll want to run Episode 2 of my SWSE game at some point. I think that'll leave a few months before 4e, though, so we might end up being just into a new game. Probably staying in Eberron, though, as that's where we've been playing D&D in for the last few years.

 

[Commonblade]

I voted other.

The campaign I am running will likely continue on using 3.5 until it reaches its conclusion. But most of my group seems interested in at least trying 4E so I imagine that eventually I will be running that. If I get lucky one of my players may actual run a 4E while I finish my campaign.

 

[Deverash]

For us it's going to depend on when we finish the Age of Worms adventure path. We're doing that in 3.5, then switching over with a new campaign.

 

[WhatGravitas]

Most likely start a new campaign with 4E, probably a shorter one.

Then, if 4E convinces, the campaign will become a longer one, otherwise... it's going to toolbox land to get a AE-3.5E/4E-mash-up...

And as much as I like the news about 4E (well, most of them), it has new competition... Savage Worlds is my new ideal for "fluid" gameplay.

Cheers, LT.

 

[Amphimir Míriel]

We'll finish our present campaign first. This should last a good long while, so it will likely take us a year or more into 4ed - almost long enough to wait and pick up 4.5

The real question for us will be whether we switch once the campaign is finished or whether we stick to 3.5 and there's no real point in speculating about that as whatever my opinions are now may well have changed by then. I may well join an online game as part of D&D Insider, however, just to check out the new system and everything.

I'll switch when Keith switches and releases The Kyngdoms 4th edition!

Now seriously, I am planning to wait at least one year before we switch, as we have two campaigns that we want to finish before changing rulesets.

In the worst possible scenario, we will make our own homebrew 3.85 game with rules cannibalized from both rulesets... Our group already uses combat maneouvers (from Book of Iron Might) and I KNOW I will be using any interesting terrain rules (I liked the terrain/poison spore article)