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<blockquote data-quote="tuxgeo" data-source="post: 6244833" data-attributes="member: 61026">&quot;We'll always have Paris.&quot; - [/Casablanca] My 4E books and boxed sets aren't going to &quot;evaporate into the ionosphere&quot; as soon as 5E comes out, so I won't &quot;miss&quot; AEDU unless I choose to ignore 4E. (I was alarmed by some posts in the EN World thread that mentioned 4E products' going &quot;Temporarily out of stock&quot; on Amazon, so I have ordered a few of the older 4E products that I didn't have yet: my copy of &quot;Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms&quot; arrived today, and I still have both &quot;Monster Vault&quot; and &quot;Monster Vault: Threats to the Nentir Vale&quot; coming via UPS or USPS.) As far as 5E is concerned, I'm of mixed persuasions: I adore the profusion of powers (especially Wizard powers!) that 4E made available; but some of my 4E characters might well work better without them. My 4E Elf Bard always felt awkward when she attacked using &quot;Vicious Mockery&quot; or &quot;Cutting Words&quot; (having retrained out of the former for the latter at Level 2), because she was never about sarcasm. She was more about Crazy Realism -- i.e. thinking &quot;Thoughts Are Things,&quot; meaning that thoughts (or Platonic Ideals) can take Actions. [Some of her more idiosyncratic lines: &quot;May Mockery Save Us All&quot;; &quot;May Vitality Preserve Me&quot;; &quot;May Mastery Serve Thy Will&quot;; &quot;May Decency Shine Above&quot;; &quot;May Mercy Stay Thy Hand&quot;; &quot;May Light Guide Thy Way&quot;; &quot;May Brutality Pound Rocks&quot;; &quot;May Memory Serve Thee&quot;; &quot;May Frivolity Make It So&quot;; &quot;May Venery Hie After Shadows&quot;; and the ever-popular &quot;May Calumny Parse Rutabagas, Or Die Trying&quot;]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tuxgeo, post: 6244833, member: 61026"] "We'll always have Paris." - [/Casablanca] My 4E books and boxed sets aren't going to "evaporate into the ionosphere" as soon as 5E comes out, so I won't "miss" AEDU unless I choose to ignore 4E. (I was alarmed by some posts in the EN World thread that mentioned 4E products' going "Temporarily out of stock" on Amazon, so I have ordered a few of the older 4E products that I didn't have yet: my copy of "Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms" arrived today, and I still have both "Monster Vault" and "Monster Vault: Threats to the Nentir Vale" coming via UPS or USPS.) As far as 5E is concerned, I'm of mixed persuasions: I adore the profusion of powers (especially Wizard powers!) that 4E made available; but some of my 4E characters might well work better without them. My 4E Elf Bard always felt awkward when she attacked using "Vicious Mockery" or "Cutting Words" (having retrained out of the former for the latter at Level 2), because she was never about sarcasm. She was more about Crazy Realism -- i.e. thinking "Thoughts Are Things," meaning that thoughts (or Platonic Ideals) can take Actions. [Some of her more idiosyncratic lines: "May Mockery Save Us All"; "May Vitality Preserve Me"; "May Mastery Serve Thy Will"; "May Decency Shine Above"; "May Mercy Stay Thy Hand"; "May Light Guide Thy Way"; "May Brutality Pound Rocks"; "May Memory Serve Thee"; "May Frivolity Make It So"; "May Venery Hie After Shadows"; and the ever-popular "May Calumny Parse Rutabagas, Or Die Trying"] [/QUOTE]

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