In a sense 4e lives on. For 4e fans how reusable are elements from the board game for playing regular 4e D&D?
It has some new content, the original books were seperate books, so I'm counting it.
Wow, that makes less than sense than usual.They have specifically said they have no plans to update the board game to fit 5E rules, because they have a greater value in supporting the boardgame fanbase with continuing to use 4E compatible rules. Go figure.
Yeah, the 'bone' style minis in castle Ravenloft have seen some use - I've long since adopted a table convention of minis for PCs & allies, tokens for monsters/enemies, myself, though.I buy them used for the miniatures, I do like the board game but I never really get it to the table. I know it’s played a lot by other folks I know.
Wow, that makes less than sense than usual.
For one thing the basic mechanics are hardly different, at all. And stand-out differences, like BA, wouldn't even come up. Guess it's been too long - 9 years? - since I played castle ravenloft, I can't think how 5e-izing 'em would screw it up.
For another, that there's even a 'board game fanbase' to support, separately.
The decision point wouldve been 4 or 5 years ago, and, while I can see being funny after the carnage if the edition war, I'd see no reason to think whatever fan base the boardgames had at that time would've been as entrenched and violently resistant to change as that.No reason for them to split the boardgame fanbase. If the game has continued to sell for 9 years, no need to rock the boat.
The decision point wouldve been 4 or 5 years ago, and, while I can see being funny after the carnage if the edition war, I'd see no reason to think whatever fan base the boardgames had at that time would've been as entrenched and violently resistant to change as that.
Yeah, but they stopped being an on-ramp to D&D, their parent line. It doesn't make sense to ruin that compatibility, either.Well, the game's still sell...
it would be bad business to ruin backwards compatibility moving forwards.