4th Edition is Looming - Here is More Evidence

[Psion]

4e is a tasty desert topping.

 

[Knight Otu]

4e is a tasty desert topping.

That sounds pretty dry.

 

[Capellan]

Mearls have hinted at it in rantings.

No, he hasn't.

See how easy it is to make unsubstantiated claims on this internet-thingie?

 

[Numion]

4E touched me in bad places.

Show on this D&D miniature where it touched you.

 

[Maggan]

I know MR.

Just out of idle curisoity, who's MR?

/M

 

[coyote6]

4e is a tasty desert topping.

Amazingly, it's also a floor wax.

 

[TarionzCousin]

I don't think the word "evidence" means what you think it means...

Inconceivable!

 

[Kishin]

Clearly, Wizards severing ties to Code Monkey and putting an end to the subpar piece of programming that is eTools (Which, to Code Monkey's credit, they were able to keep afloat much longer than it probably deserved) is damning evidence of the imminent surgical ninja strike arrival of 4e.

Oh yes ladies and gents, sometime in the next week, you'll lay yourself down to sleep, and like a thief in the night (literally) agents of WoTC will slip into your household and fulfill their dire purpose, and when next you wake, 4e will be upon you. Then, when next you reach for your PHB, you will be confronted with the image of a Undead Half-Dragon Mineral Warrior Goliath locked in deadly combat with a warforged and a drow elf. Your 3.5 materials will be like unto dust, vanished without a trace. Hell, if you're diaglo, they might even snatch your copy OD&D (1974) and leave in its place the newly released "Expedition to the Slave Lords of the Barrier Peaks of Tamoachan's Summer Home in the Desert of Desolation."

 

[Hussar]

Hrm, Etools is going to bite the dust.

And this is a bad thing?

 

[Felon]

I'm not sure I'd feel too badly about 4e having no OGL. Most third-party publishers focused on rules supplements rather than filling the adventure niche that WotC left open for them. Now, if there were some clever innovators out there, I wouldn't have minded so much, but I got real tired real quick of seeing stuff like alternate base classes which basically just amounted to handing out bonus feats every few levels and maybe co-opting some other D&D class features like evasion and uncanny dodge (I'm looking in your direction, Black Company, Thieves' World, & Conan). I think WotC would do a lot better just to give third-party publishers licensing rights on an individual basis.