Changeover poll

[blargney the second]

I'm continuing to DM my Xen'drik Savage Tide in 3.5 and have started playing in Wik's 4e game.

Both!
-blarg

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

At this point, the poll is showing nearly 40% "No Change" of some kind.

Not what WotC would like, I'm sure.

 

[The Little Raven]

At this point, the poll is showing nearly 40% "No Change" of some kind.

Not what WotC would like, I'm sure.

Yeah, I'm sure a poll on an internet forum featuring less than 70 votes is a real nail-biter for them.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Did I say that the poll was statistically valid? Did I say that the sample size was sufficient to make marketing decisions?

No. I merely made an observation.

If- and that's a big if- numbers like the poll's hold up over time, that would be bad news for WotC.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

a month is not enough, it would seem.

No, it is definitely not enough. In my group, everyone bought the books, and we all want to play - we were anticipating at least since we got the Races & Classes and World & Monsters books. But, we also have a Torg campaign (just started), we had 3 D&D 3.5 campaigns (adventure paths) and had an Iron Heroes campaign.
My IH campaign is off and I am now running KotS (and will also run the follow-ups)
One of the 3.5 campaign (Savage Tides) is being converted to 4E - our first session will be tomorrow (finally, I get to play D&D 4!)
And the remaining two I don't know, but I don't expect it to be happening soon.

So we might actually play 3.5 for several months, even though we otherwise are definitely pro-4E and won't start any more 3.5 campaigns! It is hard (and often undesirable) to change mid-campaign. We did it with Savage Tides only because the DM felt tired with mastering 3.5 at that level (~10-11), and the previous switch to Pathfinder didn't change anything.

And we hopefully won't have to give up our Torg campaign. Torg cannot be substituted by D&D, regardless of edition. It stands on its own.

After several months of anticipation, we've had "only" 1 real game of D&D 4. I wouldn't be surprised if it's even harder for other groups - not everyone has weekly sessions. (Actually, even we sometimes get that done, especially since a few of us work further outside and have night and week-end shifts)

 

[Crothian]

I need:

Played 4e, knows I will play 4e in the future, but not quite done with 3e yet.

 

[Grimstaff]

Yeah, I'm sure a poll on an internet forum featuring less than 70 votes is a real nail-biter for them.

 

[the Jester]

Well, my halfling campaign finished up a month or two ago (maybe three now?), and my epic game campaign finished up this last Monday. That group (both groups = one set of players) is now launching 4e; we played a short session Monday after finishing the epic campaign and making characters.

My 'beta' group is currently playing Red Hand of Doom, and is just finishing part 1. The party consists of a gnomish illusionist, a monk and a druid/wizard- hardly promising for converting to 4e at this stage of the game. So we're staying 3.5 to finish out RHoD, which might take a while (or might end in a tpk, you never know).

 

[Umbran]

My group is in no rush. We'll probably poke around with it in August, and decide what we'll do from there.

 

[howandwhy99]

Still playing OD&D.