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4th ed -- yeah, but are you actually ready to leave behind the 3rd?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Mhoram" data-source="post: 3003347" data-attributes="member: 4789"><p>This is the way I look at it - a new edition is just another RPG.</p><p></p><p>I play a different system for my primary game system. I play other RPGs as secondary systems. Since about a years after 3.0 hit the shelves that secondary system was D&D. I didn't care for 2nd edition, so before that point it was 1st ed D&D, or Rolemaster or Mythus or ....... So when 4th comes out, I'll read the rules (I love the bookstores with chairs that let you just sit and read, that was how I finally read Exalted). If the game system strikes me as a good one, and better than what I am currently using, I'll consider switching. </p><p> <strong>But</strong>, I have a huge library of 3.x books. More ideas/classes/settings ect than I could use in a decade. And I still get the new stuff that interests me. In my evaluation of 4th ed, not only does the system have to do the kind of things I want it to do better than what I use now, it will have to compete with the "potential roleplaying ideas" (if you will) inherent in all the extra stuff I already have for 3.x . That would almost have to be a system as good or better than what I play as my primary RPG now (which fits my approach and playstyle perfectly).</p><p></p><p>So all in all I'm interested in 4th, and follow the discussions, but I truly doubt that I will switch to playing it, unless it is a minor gaming miracle. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p>But then I felt that way about 3rd, but the multiclassing system combined with feats and prestige classes sold me. And it would take something that is that much of an evolution/change that would make me strongly consider 4th.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lord Mhoram, post: 3003347, member: 4789"] This is the way I look at it - a new edition is just another RPG. I play a different system for my primary game system. I play other RPGs as secondary systems. Since about a years after 3.0 hit the shelves that secondary system was D&D. I didn't care for 2nd edition, so before that point it was 1st ed D&D, or Rolemaster or Mythus or ....... So when 4th comes out, I'll read the rules (I love the bookstores with chairs that let you just sit and read, that was how I finally read Exalted). If the game system strikes me as a good one, and better than what I am currently using, I'll consider switching. [B]But[/B], I have a huge library of 3.x books. More ideas/classes/settings ect than I could use in a decade. And I still get the new stuff that interests me. In my evaluation of 4th ed, not only does the system have to do the kind of things I want it to do better than what I use now, it will have to compete with the "potential roleplaying ideas" (if you will) inherent in all the extra stuff I already have for 3.x . That would almost have to be a system as good or better than what I play as my primary RPG now (which fits my approach and playstyle perfectly). So all in all I'm interested in 4th, and follow the discussions, but I truly doubt that I will switch to playing it, unless it is a minor gaming miracle. :) But then I felt that way about 3rd, but the multiclassing system combined with feats and prestige classes sold me. And it would take something that is that much of an evolution/change that would make me strongly consider 4th. [/QUOTE]
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