D&D 4E For the post 4E world, what will your game be?

[Dragonblade]

I will look at 5e, I have already pre-ordered 13th Age, but 4e will likely remain my go to system.

I don't use the online tools so I'm not beholden to WotC pulling the plug on DDI. I subscribe for the Dragon and Dungeon content. Once that ceases to be 4e, I'll likely drop my sub unless 5e blows me away. I own a physical copy of every 4e book WotC has ever published, so I'm set.

4e really suffers from a lack of solid adventures, but I just use Paizo's PF adventures, anyway. I can convert most of them in minutes, and often on the fly, and structurally they actually work better as 4e adventures than as PF adventures, IMO.

I own every Paizo PF hardcover because I'm a collector and I like Paizo's production values. But after justing ending a two year PF campaign, I doubt I'll ever play or run it again. Its just not a ruleset I care to deal with anymore. I'll just steal the cool bits for my 4e game.

 

[MerricB]

At present, I have no idea if I'll continue running 4E after 5E comes out. There are enough things that bother me in 4E that I'll drop it for a better system... I just don't know if 5E will be that system.

It's not like I'm lacking choice - I'm currently running campaigns of AD&D, Pathfinder and 4E, enough to show me that *none* of the versions of D&D does everything I want them to!

Cheers!

 

[whearp]

From what I'm seeing in the playtest and 'community' responses, I'm not too terribly hopeful about D&D 5e/Next/2.75. So my plans are to continue to craft my houserule bible for 4e; it's a system I have find more reasons to love the longer I use it.

I also intend to start an online 13th age game, as it is a fantastic translation of the 4e feel into a gridless format.

I must say that accepting that I'm a grognard now has been difficult.

 

[Mircoles]

If i don't stick with 4e, I'll likely switch over to Savage Worlds, which recently came out with a very backwards compatible new edition.

It would seem to be very easy to port over some rules from 4e, like bursts and blasts. As is, Savage Worlds uses templates and 4e's burst and blasts would definitely be an improvement.

It seems to be a system very friendly towards modifying and is easy to comprehend and learn. It's easy to create monsters for it and they even have guidelines for creating new races, which is nice to have.

Also, It's classless, multigenre and has PDFs. Not that I'm a big fan of PDFs, but they're good to have until you can get the actual book.

It seems similar to Star Wars D6, just without all the d6, force points and not as complex.

 

[jcayer]

Seconded for Savage Worlds. After running 4e from 1st to 30th level, my group had enough 4e for a while. We played around with the playtest and some AD&D and have actually decided we want a break from fantasy!

So the next few sessions we'll be test driving a few Savage World's one sheets and then diving into War of the Dead.
War of the Dead: Chapter One (Week 1 through Week 3) - Daring Entertainment | RPGNow.com

Pirates tonight!

 

[Nemesis Destiny]

Post-4e? Everything since 2007 is post-4e. Thread title should be 'post-5e.'

I will try 5e, but having read and used the playtest materials, the system doesn't sing to me the way 4e does, so I will likely stick with my own homebrewed and houseruled 4e system... unless something comes along that does what I modified it to do better.

I'm looking forward to trying 13th Age. It may be that system described above. If it's not... no problem.

And there's still lots of other games in my gaming tickle-trunk; Call of Cthulhu, Shadowrun, RIFTS, etc.

 

[Balesir]

Well, even in the original poster's sense, we are already "post-4e" as the last 4e product has come out.

What will I do? Well, I have a 4e campaign that I intend to run to L30, for a start - that will take a while, at the pace we play. After that I'm pretty sure 4e will remain an option in my gaming "golf bag", since it does what it does better than anything else out there - it's a great shame that it looks like that "niche" will go back to being ignored by gaming companies now.

As to what I'll play, though, I have no idea right now. I'm playing a Hârn game in parallel - that won't change, I don't think - and I'll be looking closely at 5e and 13th Age as options. When I know what kind of game my group wants, then I'll decide what system to use to best support it.

 

[S'mon]

My current FR 4e campaign started in early 2011, we are 23 sessions in at level 8 and I am hoping to take it up into Epic levels, maybe even level 30, over several years - by which time I expect 6e will be announced.

I've also been running Pathfinder Beginner Box and Labyrinth Lord (and 1e online) and expect to continue doing those.

I may have a go at full Pathfinder at some point in the next few years, and I would like to run a tabletop SF game sometime, but find the lack of support disconcerting compared to D&D-type fantasy games. I also bought Wrath of Ashardalon yesterday and look forward to playing it with my son.

Overall, I'm sticking with my current 4e game, no plans to play or GM 5e; if I move away from 4e as my main go-to version of D&D it would likely be more to Pathfinder and/or retro-clones.

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

So we know that 4E is ending, and by next year at this time we'll likely be looking at 5E's launch.

I have no idea what you mean by "4e is ending". I have almost 30 4e books. There's enough material in there to run games for the next 100 years.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Clearly, "...as a commercial product" is implied there.