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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Foundry of Decay" data-source="post: 4161887" data-attributes="member: 846">I run with two players, and after 4e was announced we decided to put the current campaigns (I use the term loosely, more on that in a bit) to rest since we weren't too far along in them anyway.  Add to this the fact that one player and myself decided it to call it quits on Warcraft and you get a wonderful fit of 'Fantasy game withdrawal' that can lead to a lot of twitching and trying to psychically 'will' the books into existence (So far, we've been unsuccessful, however all of the spoons in my house are bent beyond repair.)However, one player and I decided to make a go of trying out 4e based on what was released.  Instead of using pre-gens in any capacity, we semi-converted over custom races and slapped the classes onto a 32 point buy build.We were pretty excited about the launch, and are even more so now.  Honestly, playing custom characters with the 4e lite classes lead to a lot more RP than if we'd use pre-gens.  I've run I think 3 or 4 games now and have decided to 'pause' at the current point in the game until the full rules are released, and we plan on continuing on from second level using 4th edition.  The player in question is also planning his own campaign based on how easy running the games seemed.. This player hasn't run a game for years and years.  Only once during 3rd edition and it lasted only a session, so I'm stoked that I'll actually be a player again.  It'll give me a bit of a break.In all truth, I've only run one 3e campaign that got past the 3rd game session, and the highest that game went was to 11th level.  Recently I've been talking to the pair o' players and we came to the conclusion that the reason we couldn't seem to run a campaign for very long is that both I and one player kept trying to find a good magic system.  The other player mocked us since we couldn't let this go, and I envy him that he honestly doesn't give a damn about what edition we play, as long as we play.So to be honest, 3e was a lost cause for us as a group anyway.  The Vancian system of magic was too irritating for us to continue with, and thus we'd have stopped playing for the same amount of time even if 4e wasn't announced.. We'd likely still just be addicted to WoW and leveling yet another toon to 70 <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />That's my group's current status.</blockquote>

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