D&D 4E 4e: Isn't it ironic....

[jaerdaph]

Well, the stock market dropped 300 points earlier today, not 450, so I think that shoots a hole in your argument.

Later though it bounced back and gained those 300 points back. Obviously Hasbro's announcement of 4e saved the day.

 

[EricNoah]

I reiterate my request for a NOSTALGIA THREAD. Go on uncle Eric, tell us about the good ol' days!

Let's combine Nostalgia with Irony ... I present an archive of "complaints during the 1e to 2e transition" culled from Dragon Magazine.

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=86867

Enjoy!

 

[Korgoth]

6. All our base belongs to WoTC.


What have you noticed?

im in ur dungeon killin ur dragonz

 

[Nifft]

I reiterate my request for a NOSTALGIA THREAD.

Q&A with EGG is that way --->

, -- N

 

[Zephrin the Lost]

What I've noticed since 4e was announced:

1. I've never played or ran a 3.5 game over 7th level. I thought there would be more time...

2. That 'Castle Amber' refit I started back in 3.0 but haven't run since it's for an 8th-10th level group? Third time's the charm....

--Z

 

[F4NBOY]

I remember the designers explaining how the dwarven waraxe worked. It looked as weird that time as it still does nowadays.
I remember SKR explaining how diagonal movement worked, the 1-2-1-2 wasn't official yet, just a rule of thumb.
I remember sending an email to Eric Noah asking about a feat, and he answered it!!
oh boy

 

[Agamon]

I've noticed one cool thing that is very different than at the beginnings of 3rd edition ... our community is already here, ready to talk about it. There won't be 8 months of news without a messge board to discuss it on. There won't be months of word of mouth as this site grows from a few hits per day to thousands. There won't be a string of new URLs as the site and the forums move around from home to home. That's kind of neat...

Gah, help me remember -- did WotC even have real "forums" in '99? They had some kind of newsgroup thingy as I recall. And the WotC website was, what, the beholder with each eye as a hyperlink leading to different parts of the site? And SKR was webmaster?

I still remember it like yesterday. The main WotC newsgroup was nuts. Then you posted an announcement about your news site. I checked it out right away and was hooked. And don't forget, after a few days, you had that horrible, but fun and useful, branch-style MB (it was 1999, so I forgive you for it's simplicty ). I know I prefered talking there than on the WotC newsgroups once people started flooding over.

I think WotC shut down the newsgroups and started their own MBs a few months later. Never really went there and still hardly don't.

 

[GravyFingerz]

im in ur dungeon killin ur dragonz

You sir, have won the interwebs.

 

[Horacio]

I remember having quitted AD&D some years ago. I remember being surfing the net a quiet afternoon and reading that the company that made Magic was going to release a new version of AD&D. I remember searching for information for weeks. And I remember as at last, some time after, I arrived to a small news site made by a crazy guy called Eric Noah.

And then, everything changed. I had found THE D&D site

Wow, time goes fast, I feel old now...

 

[wedgeski]

I've noticed one cool thing that is very different than at the beginnings of 3rd edition ... our community is already here, ready to talk about it. There won't be 8 months of news without a messge board to discuss it on. There won't be months of word of mouth as this site grows from a few hits per day to thousands. There won't be a string of new URLs as the site and the forums move around from home to home. That's kind of neat...

Also the general mood on the boards here is excitement and good humour, not the avalanche of naysaying that it was in my imagination when I considered what this day would be like. The boards have been awesome fun to browse for the last couple of days.