4E, has your opinion changed?

[Mercule]

I've been cautiously optimistic about it since the announcement. I played one session of KotS (first two combats) and enjoyed it. I've got my books and, while I like some things (yay! toned down wizard), I'm not liking some other things (boo! absolutely no long-term invisibility). The funny thing is that some of the things I'm uncertain about are things you'd expect me to be happy about -- I've been very down on the ease of movement powers since 2e, but I want to see some way to fly for more than one round, even if it's epic.

Only one actual session = not really played.
Still cautiously optimistic = indifferent.

 

[hong]

I've been cautiously optimistic about it since the announcement. I played one session of KotS (first two combats) and enjoyed it. I've got my books and, while I like some things (yay! toned down wizard), I'm not liking some other things (boo! absolutely no long-term invisibility). The funny thing is that some of the things I'm uncertain about are things you'd expect me to be happy about -- I've been very down on the ease of movement powers since 2e, but I want to see some way to fly for more than one round, even if it's epic.

? Fly is wiz 16 and lasts until the end of the encounter, sustain minor.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

I voted indifferent, but that's not really the right word. I'm ambivalent; there are a few things I like a lot, and lots of things I don't like a little. If the DM for the 4e game I'm in said he's switching back to 3.5 tomorrow, I'd be fine with it. The question is, can I adopt the things I like a lot, and replace all the things I dislike? I don't know.

But the GSL debacle has put me firmly in the 'dislike the 4e experience' camp.

 

[Agamon]

Now that I've played it, no change from like it since a month or two after the announcement (when I was indifferent...disliked it the first couple of days, silly GenCon announcements.)

 

[Obryn]

Excited when it was announced, agreed with all the problems they had with 3.x, and anxiously awaited more news.

Tons of fluff announcements about planar stuff put me off, since I could care less about a game's cosmology. Didn't care in 3e, won't care in 4e. I love my 1e Manual of the Planes, but Planescape put me off from 2e through 3e.

Then some mechanical details came up and it worried me. I was pessimistic for a good long while.

I don't know when I got optimistic again, but I think it was when we got to see actual play reports. I was excited to try it out.

Now, I've played it, I've run it, and I can't see myself or my group going back to 3.5. We'll play other games, too - WFRP and SWSE are other great ones - but 4e's streamlined, cinematic system is just a great match for my group's playstyles.

-O

 

[Wormwood]

4e's streamlined, cinematic system is just a great match for my group's playstyles.

That was my opinion after the first promises of the design team, and it remains my opinion today.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

Love it, will never again DM 3.x and and running Keep on the Shadowfell. Now 2 of my nephews are willing to try DM'ing 4e also with their own campaings.

 

[Khairn]

I've play-tested 4E on 3 occasions and will play in a new game starting this Sunday.

I have enjoyed combat but have varying negative views on pretty much everything else that the system contains or tries to support & encourage. After my first play-test I commented that 4E is a great mini / combat game ... but that's about it. To date I haven't seen anything that changes that original call.

 

[jdrakeh]

Honestly, I'm indifferent about 4e. What I'm sick of is people crying about the new edition like it kicked in their door, shot their dog, stole their life savings, and brutalized their family before riding off to terrorize the next homestead.

 

[Doc Eldritch]

I am even enough on my likes and dislikes for the system that I went with "Indifferent, have played". Overall it is good, but then something I really hate will jump out in my face, or the very gamist rules will pop up and slap immersion around.

Though, honestly, the one big thing that starts to make me hate the new edition from time to time? The utter WotC fanbois. Luckily there are not a ton here or on RPG.net, but on WotC's forums? Ugh. They make me want to hate the game because of their attitudes. Which is kinda sad, because it is NOT a bad game, even if some of the choices made for it are not my cup of tea.