Are you worried about character conversion from 3.E-4.E?

[jdrakeh]

Oh yeah, there's now two hobby shops in my region boycotting 4E. This will be fun to watch, WotC.

This will likely be a poor move if boycots of previous new editions have been any indicator. I saw a couple of shops fold due to their refusal to stock D&D 3x books, and I know of more than a few more that folded due to refusal to stock D&D 2e items -- they eventually relented, of course, though other hobby shops in the area had already established themselves as the place to go for said books. By the time that those boycotting the new editions wised up, their customer base was pretty much non-existent. I have never seen a refusal to stock popular games attract customers.

 

[TessarrianDM]

Another with no plans to convert. Not a single player in my campaign was happy with the conversion from 2e to 3e from a character standpoint, so most dropped the converted characters very quickly and built new ones from scratch. Two chose to keep theirs, but put them into semi-retirement until the re-training rules came out in the PHBII.

We only play once per month and are in the early stages of a campaign planned to reach its conclusion when the PC's levels are in the upper 20's. They are now in the lower teens. I do not have the time or the will to convert the entire campaign over to a system that is going to be markedly different.

 

[Nefrast]

What I read so far I like very much (rules, not the digital stuff). So I guess we will switch ASAP to the new rules and convert our characters and I am absolutely not worried about it.
The most important things are the background, the story, the accomplishments, the adventurers, the environment, etc. Rules only come second and I am sure it won't be that difficult to convert some missing spells, feats, or monsters ourselves if the need arises. We have gone through this several times before. We started playing 1st edition and still have a small number of characters in our campaigns who were converted from 1st to 3.5 through all editions. It was never a big issue.

 

[Emirikol]

Conversion is for players who want to be molly-coddled! A REAL gamer takes burrowing ear monsters and no-save spells and DIES like a MAN. And then recreates the same character in new rules.

[tear in my eye] That's beautiful man. That's beautiful

Jay

 

[drothgery]

Other.

If the guys I play with like 4e enough to switch, we'd probably finish up any 3.5 campaign that was going on and start the next one in 4e. But since it looks like we've got another few months left in our current 3.5 game (to make it to 20th level, or at least 18th, for the first time), and then I'm running a SWSE game. Probably not a long one, as one of our regular players only plays D&D, but everyone wanted a break from 3.x, and I wanted to play SWSE...

 

[delericho]

Nope. Not going to convert.

 

[DarkJester]

Doesn't bother me. I like the idea of a new edition, but also like 3.5. My 3.5 game will likely remain 3.5 and I will start up a separate 4.0 game. I'll probably fully transfer over when the 3.5 game ends...at least that is the way I see it happening.

 

[Wormwood]

I will definitely not be converting.

Instead, I'll be dropping my current insanely house-ruled 3.5 game like a sack of wet garbage.

 

[SavageRobby]

Other: Please Post

I don't play 3x, so its not a concern.

 

[Odhanan]

Conversion? Absolutely not.

If I want to "convert" something, I'll just rebuild the character from scratch to recreate the concept, not the details. No "micromanagement". No "conversion" issues then.