Changeover Poll

[Remathilis]

Returning to 3.5 (and an unfinished campaign) after a half-way disastrous run of fourth.

Out of five players, I had one who liked the system, and four who were apathetic at best, outright hostile at worst. Not counting my own preference (its good but not perfect) and you has a recipe for a group probably determined not to play it again anytime soon.

I will continue to play in a 4e Forgotten Realms game, but my own DMing for now will be 3.5. After that, we will explore all options (3.5, pathfinder final, SWSE, or 4e).

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

Ok, our first 100 votes in (102 as of this post) and we have:

Changeover (poll options 1 or 2 selected) - 31.37%
No Changeover (poll options 6 or 7 selected) - 54.90%
Partial Changeover (poll options 3, 4, or 5 selected) - 13.73%

 

[mmu1]

To be honest, I had a bad feeling about 4E from the moment I listened to the announcement at Gencon last year - but I did follow it closely, tried a demo, read the books, and tried to judge it fairly.

Effectively, I think that puts me in the last group - never played 4E, still playing an earlier edition.

My current D&D group has two players willing to play 4E (but also 3.5 - one of them actually likes 3.5 better), one who hates the idea of switching systems more than anything but hasn't been terribly interested by what he's seen of 4E, one who'd probably play 4E if the rest of us switched and dragged him along but doesn't feel it's better, just different, and not worth the bother considering all the 3.5 adventures he has that he didn't even run yet, and three people who dislike 4E to various degrees and would probably be very unhappy if it was their only option as far as D&D is concerned.

Chances are our next campaign is going to be Pathfinder, or 3.5 with Pathfinder elements we like.

 

[JeffB]

Group is on hiatus ATM- but largely 4E and I ran a S&W game recently for some old friends.


Anything but 3.X is fine, AFAIC

 

[Evilusion]

Well after our last session it looks like for my group we are going for another system. For us 4E is just to bland, not enough options for the characters. I know more books are on the way, but not looking to buy anymore books.

So I vote the closest I could get Partial Changeover.

Evilusion

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Interesting results- not what I expected- but still quite early.

 

[Edgewood]

No changes here. I was offered a free copy of the 4E PHB and turned it down. I told the person offering it to me to give it to someone who would play it. Me and my on-line group are playing AD&D 1st edition currently and having a blast.

 

[Shemeska]

No changeover. I'm not interested in it, and the other DM running D&D is using 3.x with no intention of changing over. Plus, I'm playing in a Shadowrun game as well, and once the other D&D game is finished, other systems are in play for that slot.

Perhaps more telling, the one gaming group member who shall only be known as Blackbeard the Pirate actually deleted their 4e pdfs after looking them over and being so underwhelmed (largely by the 4e MM). That's pretty harsh.

Edit: *blink* Wow. I expected more of a 50/50 split in the poll, but the 4e support at this point in the poll seems significantly weaker.

 

[scruffygrognard]

I'm almost to the point of giving up on D&D too... which is kinda sad. 3.5, after 8+ years, has become a bit of a drag for me and 4th edition, after several sessions, did absolutely nothing for me.

At this point I'm trying to convince some of my fellow geeks to play Castles & Crusades... and will probably run it with for a few guys. I'm still playing in a Scarred Lands game for 3.5 but the game is infrequent and not as satisfying as it once was.

 

[joethelawyer]

6 months ago, I put up a poll here on ENWorld, calling it the Changeover Poll.
That poll was about whether people changed over to 4E, stayed with 3E, or went somewhere in-between in their gaming. This poll asks the same question, but now more time has passed since the advent of 4E. So this is the Changeover Poll Redux, as it were.

This poll is exactly the same as the old poll, with the exactly same wording in the questions, and the exact same poll choices. (Hopefully, for the sake of consistency, I can get 1,000 votes once more, as I did with the first poll.)

I am curious, now that enough time had passed, to see if the results of that poll were holding, or if things had changed. So here the Changeover Poll is, once more, after a 6 month wait, after Gen Con, after the release of 4E FR, and after a number of other new developments.

I leave it in your hands to vote, if you would, in this new poll.

Yours Sincerely
Edena_of_Neith

what were the final results in the original changeover poll? do you have a link to it? i dont have the search capability