D&D 4E DnD 4E DOA?

[Nellisir]

I'm not. I'm perfectly happy with 3.5 edition.

I know everyone says this and few people ever take it seriously, but I won't be touching 4th edition in any form.

Ditto, with a caveat.

It's all about the OGL. If 4e is OGL, I'll consider it. If not, I won't touch it.

Cheers
Nell.

 

[Orius]

I'm happy with 3.x. Maybe that might change in 2010, but I don't want a change too soon.

 

[Ottergame]

If they bring about some great new changes and additions, then I'll be all over 4th edition. But I still would hate to see it come out within the next 5 years. There's a lot of life in 3.5, and 20 years worth of material to update. Even though there's a glut of d20 material out there from 3rd party publishers that's well.... out right crap, I don't think there's a need to wipe the slate clean with a new edition.

 

[Orius]

Hmm.. I wonder why that would be? It couldn't possibly be because the release of 3.5 left everyone totally cynical about how quickly the next edition would be released vs. whatever Wizards says about their plans.

I'm pretty sure that's the big reason. Everyone feels burns by the 3.5 release, and the fact that WotC is owned by Hasbro doesn't help. I think D&D gamers have a strong distrust of corporate suits who manage the game which goes back to the post Gary days at TSR.

 

[Crothian]

I'm pretty sure that's the big reason. Everyone feels burns by the 3.5 release, and the fact that WotC is owned by Hasbro doesn't help. I think D&D gamers have a strong distrust of corporate suits who manage the game which goes back to the post Gary days at TSR.

I don't feel burned on 3.5 at all. I feel it was a good and needed improvement of the game. It screwed over some publishers, but as a consumer I think it was fine.

 

[Ranger REG]

I don't feel burned on 3.5 at all. I feel it was a good and needed improvement of the game. It screwed over some publishers, but as a consumer I think it was fine.

Not to me, as a consumer. I was just getting comfortable with 3e, until they released 3.5e just three years after the Third Edition launch. I admit, I like some of the changes but I also do not like some of the other changes, so it wasn't exactly a must-have product of the year, nor I would call it a big improvement over 3.0e ... I wouldn't not even rate it as a slight improvement.

Maybe if they had waited until this Summer of 2005, they might have introduced the new PrC format that I have been hearing praises (just bought Complete Adventurer but haven't scrutinize the contents).

Perhaps it was a good thing I waited until November 2004, when I bought the Deluxe PHB 3.5e with errata corrected, so I didn't feel like I got a first-degree burn. Up until them, I have been using the 3.5e SRD to supplement the 3.0e rulebooks.

 

[KChagga]

I have no interest in a 4th edition at all. 2e is still working fine for me.

 

[Gundark]

If they try it in 2007, there is going to be a revolt among long time fans.

There will be a revolt amongst the half hearted gamers. This revolt would be small....coomparable to the "revolt" of gamers not picking up 3.5. The so-called "long time fans" will suck it up and buy the books....myself included.....

 

[Wombat]

My general feeling is this.

I started with OD&D, pre-1st AD&D.
I dropped D&D when it went to AD&D.
And I didn't come back to D&D (except for a few random sessions) until 3e came out.
I never fully made the switch to 3.5

I doubt I will make the change to 4e, if it comes out, as I will either be happy with the 3.Wombat version that I am then playing or, more likely, have moved my gaming group on to other systems.

So when 4e comes out makes little difference to me, especially if the game becomes any more miniature-centric. I'll probably be lost to the fold.

 

[Sholari]

There are certain PR companies that are paid to get threads started as if they were customers in an attempt to steer the conversation to a company's purposes. Call me a conspiracy buff... but I sure have seen a lot of threads about 4th edition lately. I think we could all learn something from Shadowrun 3rd edition, in that another edition is not always a good thing for the customer or the manufacturer's revenues.