Crunch or Fluff Changes

[Remathilis]

Which has got you more excited/nervous/irate/happy:

* Crunch/Mechanical Changes (No Full Attack, Skill System, Talent Trees, Etc)
* Fluff/World Building Changes (Elves, Tieflings as core race, no gnomes, Succubi as devils)

 

[Mouseferatu]

Hmm...

Don't think I can pick one. There are lots of things about both that I'm really jazzed about. There are one or two things about both I'm not thrilled by.

Overall, I'm probably about 90-95% thumbs up, 5-10% thumbs down, on all the changes I've heard about--but that percentage applies to both mechanics and flavor, not one more or less than the other.

 

[Shade]

The crunch has me a bit excited, the fluff has me very irate.

 

[TwinBahamut]

New classes, per-encounter abilities for mages, new fighter abilities, and rule simplifications all have me excited.

I really don't care much about the fluff changes, and I am honestly puzzled why so many people are up in arms about the succubus/erinyes thing.

As a whole, I am only interested in the crunch.

 

[Doug McCrae]

Crunch.

D&D's fluff is more or less irrelevant so long as there are dungeons, a plethora of monsters and a plethora of magic items.

Woo, the erinyes has been folded into the succubus! It amazes me that anyone can summon up the energy to care.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

At this point I find the crunch intriguing and the fluff scary.

I don't mind changing the rules of how I play D&D ... I'm more bothered by the changing of "what D&D means to me" which is more defined by the fluff.

But we'll see -- too soon to tell.

 

[ThirdWizard]

Love the crunch, am wary to unhappy with the the fluff. Which is better than the opposite.

 

[w_earle_wheeler]

The changes to fluff might make me stick with 3.5 instead of house ruling 4.0.

The changes to crunch are all that's keeping me interested in 4.0.

 

[Irda Ranger]

I like both the crunch and fluff changes, for the most part, but I'm surprised by anyone who says they can't (/will have trouble) play(ing) 4e because of the fluff. Campaign Settings (both 'official' and homebrew) ignore the fluff at will. You can too.

 

[freyar]

The crunch has me a bit excited, the fluff has me very irate.

More or less with Shade here, though maybe not quite as irate.

I'm not likely to get any of my players to learn a new rule set any time soon, so I'll give the 4e SRD a good look-over before switching at all. Even then, I'll probably use something of a 3.5/4 hybrid, depending on how the rules look.