D&D 4E 4E in 2008? Fact or Fiction?

[MoonZar]

I hope they won't do a new edition soon, they have planty of work to do with 3.5 and i'm tired of buying book so i don't think i'll change for a new edition.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

3e was released in 2000? Or 2001? It does not seem so long ago

3e came out in 2000.

That's 5 years ago. I think that's a pretty long time. 8 years between actual edition changes isn't terribly bad.

Brad

 

[ForceUser]

3e came out in 2000.

That's 5 years ago. I think that's a pretty long time. 8 years between actual edition changes isn't terribly bad.

Brad

I don't think the length of time between editions should have anything to do with it. The game should be revamped when it needs to be revamped, not simply because X amount of years have passed. Five years after release, 3E is still fresh, dynamic, and interesting, full of unexplored possibilities. It doesn't need a new edition, and won't any time soon.

 

[Dark Jezter]

Until we see some kind of official announcement: fiction.

 

[RSKennan]

You'd better get to work on the Morningstar revision...

You're right.

 

[Michael Tree]

I don't think the length of time between editions should have anything to do with it. The game should be revamped when it needs to be revamped, not simply because X amount of years have passed. Five years after release, 3E is still fresh, dynamic, and interesting, full of unexplored possibilities. It doesn't need a new edition, and won't any time soon.

I agree about the reason for needing revisions, but not neccessarily about your conclusion that one isn't neccessary.

I don't want another 'new edition' that's like 3.5, a bunch of tweaks and errata tacked on top of the same system. I could definitely handle a new edition that actually tackles some of the rules problems in 3.X, and creates a more sound system altogether. I want it to slaughter some sacred cows in the name of making the game better. Things like making multiclassed spellcasters viable without requiring prestige class and feat patches, getting rid of vancian magic, balancing the classes so that spellcasters aren't as weak at low levels and aren't as overwhelming at high levels, and fixing the "at high levels, combat all comes down to whoever fails a saving throw first" problem, which Monte Cook discussed on his blog a while ago.

 

[Gez]

Fiction. Believable fiction, maybe even a fiction that will become a fact (seems likely a new D&D edition would be published in 2008 or even sooner), but fiction.

 

[LeifVignirsson]

Well, wouldn't it be *possible* if they are changing around all of their setting in video games to Eberron, that they are interested in making Eberron their default setting in the next edition and since so many publishers are going under that this might spark an edition that would be non-OGL (4E) but still maintaining an OGL line (3.X) for those people still hanging on? Sure, it might isolate some of those publishers, but we already know that the worst selling suppliment from WotC sells better than the best 3rd party line...

Just a thought... I know that they are being tweaks by Hasbro to get money and results. This might be a way for them to get those results...

Me and my wacky mind anyway...

2008 seems like a reasonable (if disliked) deadline.

 

[Tuzenbach]

So, does this mean I should be happy that I only have FIVE 3/3.5E books?

 

[Darkness]

There is no chance in Gehenna a Wiz_O would have said something like that, so your friend is either misinterpreting a statement or flat-out lying. The date is not unlikely, but the source is highly dubious. April Fools' perhaps?

BTW, one way to search WotC forums is through Google domain search.

That's how I see it as well. Besides, Wiz_Os aren't generally writers/developers.