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<blockquote data-quote="funkysnunkulator" data-source="post: 3738975" data-attributes="member: 54963">it is possible many gamers aren't necessarily going to miss the v3 system as much as what has been built around it and the OGL. players and dm's enjoy being able to pull any idea from thier hoops and messing with it and posting it. personally, that is what will be missed most. since all the content will come from wizards via online, if we log on, we get ideas from a dozen or so guys and gals. right now, we come here or dicefreaks or wherever and get ideas from a million different sources.any new operating system is hailed as genius if it does what the older one does cleanly and is backward compatible (at least one generation). a new operating system is hailed as worthless if it does not. reckon the same goes for gaming. if what we do with/to the system now cannot be duplicated cleanly or converted easily, v4 will be reviled.if nothing else, suppose we all continue playing v3 in our games, but still look at the v4 stuff from time to time. since the system is a bit different, it might cause us to look at a situation in a different light and still we end up with something groovy to contribute to our v3 games. not likely, but it could happen. some really cool stuff in our game came from different games with different mechanics.not championing v4. could really live without it. updates to PHB and DMG periodically, cleaning up level mechanics... this is all stuff they could have been doing with v3 all along. OGL could have stayed with the originally published v3 material. all the new stuff, strictly the domain of wizards.best of both worlds.gamers and companies get to put thier stuff out there and wotc still profits from thier exclusive stuff.oh well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="funkysnunkulator, post: 3738975, member: 54963"] it is possible many gamers aren't necessarily going to miss the v3 system as much as what has been built around it and the OGL. players and dm's enjoy being able to pull any idea from thier hoops and messing with it and posting it. personally, that is what will be missed most. since all the content will come from wizards via online, if we log on, we get ideas from a dozen or so guys and gals. right now, we come here or dicefreaks or wherever and get ideas from a million different sources. any new operating system is hailed as genius if it does what the older one does cleanly and is backward compatible (at least one generation). a new operating system is hailed as worthless if it does not. reckon the same goes for gaming. if what we do with/to the system now cannot be duplicated cleanly or converted easily, v4 will be reviled. if nothing else, suppose we all continue playing v3 in our games, but still look at the v4 stuff from time to time. since the system is a bit different, it might cause us to look at a situation in a different light and still we end up with something groovy to contribute to our v3 games. not likely, but it could happen. some really cool stuff in our game came from different games with different mechanics. not championing v4. could really live without it. updates to PHB and DMG periodically, cleaning up level mechanics... this is all stuff they could have been doing with v3 all along. OGL could have stayed with the originally published v3 material. all the new stuff, strictly the domain of wizards. best of both worlds. gamers and companies get to put thier stuff out there and wotc still profits from thier exclusive stuff. oh well. [/QUOTE]

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