D&D 4E How is the 4e announcement affecting your game groups?

[greatamericanfolkher]

All of the people in my gaming group (there are five of us) have pre-ordered the books because of a deal that the FLGS was running. We're planing on a playtest game when the books come out. I decided that unless I'm blown away by the rules I'll play 4e but I won't be running any 4e games myself. Everyone else is on the fence.

 

[Fenes]

No decision one way or the other, and we rarely talk about it. I expect to check out the actual rules this summer, and then decide whether or not I'd prefer them to our 3.0 (house)rules.

 

[Firevalkyrie]

Out of my circle of D&D-playing friends, at least three of the regular DMs I know (including me) are planning on switching to 4th Edition either on release day or shortly after. After reading R&C and what I've heard about W&M, the pluses of 4th Edition far outweigh the minuses to me (about the only minus I can think of is having to rework my campaign world, and that won't take nearly as much effort as it sounds because my campaign world's cosmology already far more strongly resembles the 4th Ed cosmology than the Great Wheel).

 

[Thanee]

It isn't affecting my game groups at all.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Kobu]

I have disposed of the players who were less than enthusiastic. I expect the remaining members to stay in line.

 

[The Eternal GM]

I think we're going to be straight into 4th Edition. From the get-go our main 'decision making membership' was interested. Everyone has played and enjoyed 3rd Edition for years now, but the holes were beginning to show and disagreements over which books (or bits of books) we wanted in our campaigns. The rules bogged us down and so forth...

Then came the news about 4th and we decided to reduce our 3.5 play to just Pathfinder, and play other games until 4th Edition is released, so we can go for it fresh and with an open mind.


I think the attitude is positive and expectant (mine perhaps the least so due to a few 'fluff' issues and my 50/50 enjoyment of the artwork so far) with those of us who care about the rules. The other players will probably make a happy transition simply because they've heard that it is based somewhat on SW:S and they're loving that.

 

[Bluenose]

My group will give the rules a try, at least. Everyone plans to buy at least the PHB, and the three who DM regularly will probably buy the other core books at the same time. There's a certain amount of deja-vu involved for me and the other veterans, since we've changed rules sets regularly having started back in 1978. Since we usually have two campaigns going, one will continue with 3.5 and the other will be a 4e tryout.

Then I get all the fun of converting 26 years of work on my homebrew to another system.

 

[vagabundo]

My group does what I tell 'em.

Well they dont really mind too much, they seem mostly pro 4e, not too pushed either way. I've noticed how high level play slows down, this being my major 3.5e gripe that I believe 4e will fix.

There would have to be some major 4e problems for us not to switch at launch.

 

[Pinotage]

I regularly game with a core group of about 10 players in various games in PbP. Bot all players are in the same games, and we have 3 different DMs (myself) included that run one or more games for these players in different combinations.

Apart from myself taking a minor interest in 4e, and briefly mentioning it to one of the other DMs, none of the 10 players has mentioned it at all. This might have something to do with 1) we're playing long term games like Shackled City and Age of Worms that make switching out of the question, and 2) it's PbP so these things don't really get discussed. I suspect though, not most of those I'm playing with simply have no inclination to switch.

Pinotage

 

[Wormwood]

I'm currently in two groups. Neither group is D&D monogamous---we have played dozens of other RPGs---but ironically both have turned to 3.5 as a 'last hurrah' before 4e. Both groups will upgrade immediately.

Wednesday night: We have discussed it and I'm going to run our first 4e game, just as I ran our initial 3e game back in 2000. We're all old gamers, and our house rules are extensive enough to be a system unto themselves.

Friday Night: Half the group are newbies to D&D (my wife and two others), while the other half are old pros. The newbies don't really care about what edition of D&D we play, as long as it's fun. 4e had better be fun.

I've taken it upon myself to be the 4e info guy for both groups, because none of them do gaming forums (WoW forums being a notable exception).