D&D 4E Feeling the Freedom From 4e While Savoring 3X

[GVDammerung]

With only scant months to go until support for 3x D&D virtually vanishes, I have started to feel a certain freedom, even elation, that my 3x collection will be "completed" - nothing more to buy - I've got it all (or at least all that I want). Its kind of like standing back from a job well done and admiring the work that has been completed. It feels good.

This is not to say I won't try 4e and maybe adopt it; it is IMO simply too early to pass final judgment on a game that hasn't even been published yet. However, my initial inclination is to stick with 3x and this feeling of "completeness" only reinforces my inclination.

No more integrating anything new into my game beyond the scads of 3x material I have already. No more anticipating new releases and worrying about how they might, could or should impact my game (I'm looking at you PHII and DMG II etc.). No more money flowing out of my wallet on a regular basis.

Time to work with all the 3x material I already have. Time to appreciate a "finalized" rules set in all its abundance. More money to spend on other things - maybe some Dwarven Forge stuff, which has been a bit pricey given my other 3x purchases.

Yup. There is definitely something to savor in this moment. I find my thoughts run to this, maybe with it coming on autumn and all, more than angst/anticipation about 4e. 4e will arrive in due course. For the moment, I'm definitely savoring 3X.

 

[amethal]

No more money flowing out of my wallet on a regular basis.

I suppose its ok to dream!

I stopped buying WotC stuff in protest at the cancellation of the print magazines, but money seems to flow out of my wallet on gaming stuff at much the same rate as it always did.

I've just picked up City State of the Invincible Overlord, for example.

 

[DM_Jeff]

With only scant months to go until support for 3x D&D virtually vanishes, I have started to feel a certain freedom, even elation, that my 3x collection will be "completed" - nothing more to buy - I've got it all (or at least all that I want). Its kind of like standing back from a job well done and admiring the work that has been completed. It feels good.

Wow, it's not often that someone echoes my sentiments exactly. I felt this same rush, it was on the drive home from GenCon, when I suddenly realized "I'm DONE!" I have a complete collection to run D&D 3.5 until I retire! My wife and I will have lots of extra disposable income, I can start cataloging rules without fear of adding tnew stuff every month and make complete indexes that don't need updating. It is indeed quite neat.

By the time I'm done maybe I'll check out 7th or 8th edition and see what they're up to.

-DM Jeff

 

[Jeff Wilder]

DM_Jeff, you mentioned indexing all of 3.5. I'd love to be in on that. I'd imagine there are enough people sticking with 3.5 that would see an advantage to a comprehensive index that a group project could be organized.

3.5 could be easily split up and doled out to match each person's availability and commitment, e.g., one person could handle the whole Races of series, while another handled Complete Mage and Complete Arcane, while still another just tackled Complete Warrior.

 

[pawsplay]

I've felt a certain ambivalance about "completing" my collection, as I was never the fanboy, and some of the 3.0 and 3.5 stuff is truly d20 that was never meant to be... at the same time, as an RPG hobbyist and collector, I feel I should complete my collection as much as possible for any game I play or take inspiration from.

 

[w_earle_wheeler]

This week I made photocopies of the new "core" classes from the Complete books as well as the pages containing variants and substitution levels from those books and a few others. The total was around 200 pages.

I also made copies of all the core prestige classes. That ran about 640 pages.

I think I'll bind it together and call it 3.99e

 

[Dice4Hire]

I wonder when WOTC will come calling.....

 

[DM_Jeff]

DM_Jeff, you mentioned indexing all of 3.5. I'd love to be in on that. I'd imagine there are enough people sticking with 3.5 that would see an advantage to a comprehensive index that a group project could be organized.

I helped with this mind-numbing process with the NPC index at this thread:

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=175367

And that's the type of thing I'm thinking of. A place to list items players and DMs really need to access and use of our 3.5 rulebooks. WotC's already done much work for us, in spells, monsters, prestige classes, classes, and stuff like that in their indexes. But there's untapped territory, to be sure! If you wannna exchange ideas I'm at ocasek50 at hotmail dot com.

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-DM Jeff