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Could this be the future format of 4th Edition D&D?
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<blockquote data-quote="RainOfSteel" data-source="post: 3306627" data-attributes="member: 24460"><p>I voted no.</p><p></p><p>Frankly, people have been worried about the approacing doom of DnD/RPGs for a while, and it hasn't happened.</p><p></p><p>In 1999, people were predicting the end of RPGs over the next decade as the Internet and computer games were going to take over.</p><p></p><p>This hasn't come about.</p><p></p><p>WotC can certain damage it's product, though. I think if they drop the OGL, that will do more damage to their product's saleability than any number of WoW subscriptions.</p><p></p><p>My vision for 4.0:</p><p></p><p>1 - Better capability-for-capability balancing of the classes.</p><p></p><p>2 - Bad/unclear 3.5 rules (all areas) cleaned up in their wordings by more exacting use of known and defined game terminology.</p><p></p><p>3 - Broken 3.5 material disposed of en masse. (Bye, bye <em>wraithstrike</em>, <em>duskblade</em>, etc.)</p><p></p><p>4 - Known problems handled. (I recall an EnWorld topic I viewed years ago, long before I joined. It was a list of spells from 3.0 with known difficulties that had not been changed in the move to 3.5, leaving them with their existing problems.)</p><p></p><p>5 - The abandonment of thin hardback books. That is just ridiculous.</p><p></p><p>That's it. Nothing fancy. No major changes. Just clean it up so we don't have to mess up our books with errata or argue over FAQ interpretations.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RainOfSteel, post: 3306627, member: 24460"] I voted no. Frankly, people have been worried about the approacing doom of DnD/RPGs for a while, and it hasn't happened. In 1999, people were predicting the end of RPGs over the next decade as the Internet and computer games were going to take over. This hasn't come about. WotC can certain damage it's product, though. I think if they drop the OGL, that will do more damage to their product's saleability than any number of WoW subscriptions. My vision for 4.0: 1 - Better capability-for-capability balancing of the classes. 2 - Bad/unclear 3.5 rules (all areas) cleaned up in their wordings by more exacting use of known and defined game terminology. 3 - Broken 3.5 material disposed of en masse. (Bye, bye [i]wraithstrike[/i], [i]duskblade[/i], etc.) 4 - Known problems handled. (I recall an EnWorld topic I viewed years ago, long before I joined. It was a list of spells from 3.0 with known difficulties that had not been changed in the move to 3.5, leaving them with their existing problems.) 5 - The abandonment of thin hardback books. That is just ridiculous. That's it. Nothing fancy. No major changes. Just clean it up so we don't have to mess up our books with errata or argue over FAQ interpretations. [/QUOTE]
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