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<blockquote data-quote="Telperion" data-source="post: 1323128" data-attributes="member: 15711"><p>Personally I'm quite happy with 3.5, but they <u>will</u> publish 4.0 sooner rather than later. I hope it won't happen too many years before 2010, but that's hoping for too much. </p><p></p><p>Figure a year of brain-storming (they are doing it already, no doubt about it) and another year of figuring out the best way to get <u>our</u> money. Plus a bit of time to commercialize, so I would hazard a guess at August/September 2006. </p><p></p><p>I'm guessing they will grab stuff from Mage: The Ascension and do a whole new spell casting system. They'll drown the importance of classes with a plethora of "new and improved" choises. Probably something ripped out of Role Master.</p><p></p><p>I don't think they have the guts to drop the D20. I mean that's been their way of diceding the fate of PC's since the dawn of D&D, but then again...they did it to the Damage Reduction system, so anythings possible I suppose...</p><p></p><p>In the end it will be a hybrid of so many other games that none will recognize it as D&D. </p><p></p><p>Personally I think they are in a whole lot of trouble is they <u>must</u> push for 4.0 too quickly. I could see a new generation of interested roleplayers hitting the shops around 2008 - 2010, before that is just too soon. I mean they have been refining D&D since 1.0, and it still has problems. The same deal over and over again, with "new and improved" ways of solving situations. The 3.5 isn't a bad product, so will a simple update be enough? I think not. So, someone has to come up with something really special / different. </p><p></p><p>The question is of course: will 4.0 sell? I think they'll spend a whole year thinking about that one question before they release it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Telperion, post: 1323128, member: 15711"] Personally I'm quite happy with 3.5, but they [U]will[/U] publish 4.0 sooner rather than later. I hope it won't happen too many years before 2010, but that's hoping for too much. Figure a year of brain-storming (they are doing it already, no doubt about it) and another year of figuring out the best way to get [U]our[/U] money. Plus a bit of time to commercialize, so I would hazard a guess at August/September 2006. I'm guessing they will grab stuff from Mage: The Ascension and do a whole new spell casting system. They'll drown the importance of classes with a plethora of "new and improved" choises. Probably something ripped out of Role Master. I don't think they have the guts to drop the D20. I mean that's been their way of diceding the fate of PC's since the dawn of D&D, but then again...they did it to the Damage Reduction system, so anythings possible I suppose... In the end it will be a hybrid of so many other games that none will recognize it as D&D. Personally I think they are in a whole lot of trouble is they [U]must[/U] push for 4.0 too quickly. I could see a new generation of interested roleplayers hitting the shops around 2008 - 2010, before that is just too soon. I mean they have been refining D&D since 1.0, and it still has problems. The same deal over and over again, with "new and improved" ways of solving situations. The 3.5 isn't a bad product, so will a simple update be enough? I think not. So, someone has to come up with something really special / different. The question is of course: will 4.0 sell? I think they'll spend a whole year thinking about that one question before they release it :). [/QUOTE]
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