But What About 3.5?

[Sykopup]

After reading most of the comments concerning the eventual appearance of 4E, I was wondering who all would still purchase 3.5 stuff from 3rd party publishers if they continued to support this older edition?

 

[Philotomy Jurament]

After reading most of the comments concerning the eventual appearance of 4E, I was wondering who all would still purchase 3.5 stuff from 3rd party publishers if they continued to support this older edition?

I'd buy 3E material if it was the kind of stuff I like (I tend to like adventures from Necromancer and Goodman). However, even that stuff I'm converting for use with C&C. And I'm buying new 1E (e.g. Cairn of the Skeleton King), OSRIC (e.g. Pod Caverns of the Sinister Shroom), and C&C (e.g. Dark Chateau) material, too.

Personally, I'd like to see the 3rd party publishers offer modules for C&C and OSRIC. Some of them have (e.g. Goodman Games, Expeditious Retreat Press, and obviously Troll Lord), which is great. Even those that don't want to offer printed products statted for those systems could offer different stats as a download. Green Ronin is doing something like that with some of its new products (although I don't know which systems will be supported with downloads, beyond d20 and True20).

 

[Moon-Lancer]

if wtc trashes d&d as a rpg and makes it a war game, im sticking with 3.5 for the rest of my life.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

if wtc trashes d&d as a rpg and makes it a war game, im sticking with 3.5 for the rest of my life.

My feelings almost exactly. If the factor of which figure is a common, uncommon or rare were taken away, I'd jump the bandwagon though.

 

[Razz]

After reading most of the comments concerning the eventual appearance of 4E, I was wondering who all would still purchase 3.5 stuff from 3rd party publishers if they continued to support this older edition?

I'd definitely move towards 3rd party publishers if they continue to support 3.5E

 

[w_earle_wheeler]

After reading most of the comments concerning the eventual appearance of 4E, I was wondering who all would still purchase 3.5 stuff from 3rd party publishers if they continued to support this older edition?

I will probably be sticking with D&D 3.5 and compatible OGL/d20 products until the first revision of 4E is released.

Really, I have so many 3.5 adventures (Dungeon Crawl Classics, World's Largest Dungeon) and there are so many large campaigns available (Ptolus, Shackled City, Rappan Athuk) that I could run 3.5 for the next 5 or 6 years and not repeat anything.

I do think that some of the rumoured ideas behind 4e are positive, but I won't be an early adopter this time.

 

[Nyaricus]

if wtc trashes d&d as a rpg and makes it a war game, im sticking with 3.5 for the rest of my life.

Pretty much sums up my thoughts, but I'll wait and see if 4e is just a myth for the time being.

In the same breathe, I don't think WotC would be very popular at all if they turn D&D even more into a wargame with this theoretical 4th edition. I say we just wait and see what happens.