Does The New Edition Raise Your Houserulling Interest?

[Celebrim]

Only in the sense that I now more strongly want to write up a set of 3.75 rules.

I just can't see any time in my schedule until next year to do so, so it will probably never happen.

 

[Wormwood]

I find myself lately wanting to play around with house ruling a lot more lately... I don't know if the Announcement of 4e has anything to do with it, or what.

I admit that I've been adding more house rules of late---with mostly positive results. It helps that my group is both receptive to change and vocal about their likes and dislikes.

 

[Scribble]

I'm hoping 4e won't need any.

SHrug... I remember people seemed to say the same thing about 3e... It was flawless and perfectly balanced.

But it's not really even a need to fix anything... It's more all the talk about new rules and such has got my idea engine revved up and wanting to fiddle...

 

[Varianor Abroad]

I have constantly tinkered with rules in my DMing career. That said, I think the advent of 4E has changed the emphasis from "working inside the box" to "working outside the box", at least a little.

 

[hong]

If I don't like a system, I don't play it. If I like a system, I house rule it to heck and back.

I anticipate doing a lot of house ruling with 4E.

 

[Masquerade]

I'm going to be doing a lot more house ruling until 4e comes around, certainly, but when the new books come out, it's going to be RAW + implied setting for as long as it takes for me to learn and adapt to the new system.

 

[Nifft]

In my case, it was ToB:Bo9S and SW Saga that got my juices flowing again. The 4e announcement did nothing.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Nellisir]

I was actually in the process of breaking open 3.5 for a total overhaul - more skill points, plenty of the stuff Mearls has written (inspiration from Iron Heroes included) and Monte's house rules tossed in, and heavily inspired by the Ultimate Classes once hosted on the WotC boards - when 4e was announced. There's a niggling voice in my head that says "Do that instead of obsessively reading rumors", matter of fact.

Ditto. I was plotting to expand racial benefits over more levels, add feats, hit points, and skill points, and...some other stuff that looks like it'll show up in 4e. So I've slacked off.

 

[KingCrab]

3.5 didn't need house rules in my opinion. I think I may already have accepted a house rule for 4ed saving throws. To be honest, it's too early to tell.

 

[Simia Saturnalia]

Ditto. I was plotting to expand racial benefits over more levels, add feats, hit points, and skill points, and...some other stuff that looks like it'll show up in 4e. So I've slacked off.

Yep, sounds like we had the same bug. I find myself wondering - and I know I've been rampantly enthusiastic - if 4e isn't going to be a very very good d20 game (which it sounds like it is) that will serve to roundly inspire my D&D rules.

If only because I think that unnamed dread is "This is gonna look a lot like the minis game, isn't it?". Well, that and dropping a fireball on something and not picking up a load of d6s is going to be way too weird.