4th ed -- yeah, but are you actually ready to leave behind the 3rd?

[Lord Rasputin]

I alright got 4th edition. Totally rocks. Quad ST solves tons of problems, the new rapid fire rules save game time. I just wish Evil Stevie would make more supplements.

Oh, wait, 4e D&D? Well, I'd have to see.

 

[wingsandsword]

Don't want the rules, don't really want to talk about it. I'm happy with 3.5e, I might like some very minor revisions/errata/clarifications, and I like more add-ons, but I don't want any new edition-level changes to the game.

I'm satisfied, I don't feel the need for a new edition, I can't really imagine what they could do to make a version of D&D that remains "D&D" in spirit (not just name) and is a fun game that provides everything I want in D&D.

I'd rather be talking about the current edition of the game, or even about older editions of the game, than speculating about an edition that is regrettably going to come at some time, but that I'm not really too interested in talking about.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

There has been a busted exampel here or there. But it has been reasonably constrained.
If you plotted it on the same scale as 2e you wouldn;t even see a noteworthy blip for 3X

2e made fewer attempts to balance the core rules than 3e, making comparisons nearly worthless.

 

[pogre]

I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with the game. I really liked the 3.5 changes. I pretty much am a core only kind-of-guy, so powercreep is rarely an issue in my campaigns. I'll buy it and probably convert my campaign to it if it looks as good as the last two evolutions of the game (3rd & 3.5).

I'll be sorely disappointed if there is no SRD though.

 

[Templeton580]

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[Agamon]

I'm just starting to run Age of Worms, which, at the pace we game, could take a couple years. Hard to say what'll happen after that, but I'd like to run a Warhammer game. Not sure if I'll get into a 4E until it's 4.5E, or whatever.

 

[BryonD]

2e made fewer attempts to balance the core rules than 3e, making comparisons nearly worthless.

I agree with the first part, but don't see how the second follows.
If they didn't try and were proud of it then fine and good for them.
Perhaps being critical of 2E for being poorly balanced would be worthless, since it was not a priority. But saying that this was the case is not made worthless by that.

 

[BryonD]

Ok, I'll bite.

If this is true:

I pretty much am a core only kind-of-guy

Then what difference does this:

I'll be sorely disappointed if there is no SRD though.

make?

 

[Agamon]

Isn't the current SRD pretty much "core only"? Really, the more you stray from core, the less valuable the SRD becomes. So I think pogre is saying he'd only get the core rules for 4E and would be dissapointed if there was no SRD for it.

 

[Ranger REG]

Nah. 3.5e is my swan song.

If I'm still around, I'll just be supporting d20 Modern and/or Star Wars d20 ... whether it is published by WotC or someone else.