Eric Noah's Info

[Steverooo]

And who knows. It might even be fun. Lord knows 3.5 isn't (for my circle of gamers anyway).

Tom

And LA isn't, for me & mine, Tommy-boy!

 

[Brian Gibbons]

Sure. I think reasonable people can differ as to what 4e is likely to evolve into.

I personally doubt that it is going to be so radically divergent from 3e as to be unrecognizable (let alone OGC incompatible).

Part of the problem is that, without the game becoming radically divergent from 3e, I'm not sure how you can sell it as a brand new edition. (Conversely, I think people are sufficiently happy wth 3e as to reject changes of the magnitude of the 2e->3e change.)

Personally, I'd be surprised to see 4e actually labelled as such. My expectation is that they'll drop the version numbers and call it something like "Dungeons & Dragons Expanded".

 

[Aus_Snow]

Yay! 4E is coming and I can get all the 3.5 books I want CHEAP! Yay!

Hehe. My thoughts exactly. . . except it's more like "*When* 4e does actually arrive, in 2010 say, I can get all the 3.x books I want CHEAP! Yay!"

Or something.

 

[Dire_Pug]

Best. Thread. Ever.

 

[Philotomy Jurament]

No. WotC removed those monsters from the SRD (System Reference Document).

And, to clarify, they removed it from the Draft SRD. Prior to the final release, some publishers had a "Gentlemans Agreement" with WotC that allowed them to use content from the draft SRD, with the understanding that they would revise and update their products (or make other licensing arrangements) to conform to the final, official release of the SRD and OGL.

So the combination of Gentlemans Agreement + Draft SRD *did* have a "you must update to conform to changes" arrangement. Open game content released under any of the final versions of the OGL aren't subject to anything similar.

 

[Philotomy Jurament]

And LA isn't, for me & mine, Tommy-boy!

I think Tom's more into Savage Worlds than LA, these days.

 

[Greg K]

I'd pay serious money to give Steve Kenson a crack at designing the next D&D ruleset.[/I]

I was thinking the same exact thing.

 

[genshou]

I'm not too worried. If 4E is something I don't like (I consider this the most likely outcome), I won't play it, but hopefully the RPG market will stay alive and all those teenagers will like their game. I can keep playing my 3E regardless of what happens, so let the dice fall as they may.

Still, when Eric Noah posts, I listen.

 

[Wrathamon]

I left DnD when it went to 2nd Ed, and came back with 3.x, so I agree with your remarks fully, and serve myself up as an example.

I did the same... so I echo this.

 

[coyote6]

I did the same... so I echo this.

Yeah, much the same here, except I'd actually quit playing AD&D before 2e came out (or was even announced). IIRC, the last time I played AD&D was just about the time the second of the Wilderness & ungeoneer's Survival Guides came out.