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<blockquote data-quote="Tyrian_Spellstealer" data-source="post: 4029009" data-attributes="member: 36470">I'm as much against the concept of 4e as anyone, but I must disagree with this frame of mind. If you follow this link: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/</a> - you will arrive at enworlds home page. The site that ISRP is hosted on, and our major source of new players. If you'll take the time to actually visit that link you'll see in big fat letters the words: &quot;D&amp;D 4th Edition News&quot;.The reality is that for ISRP, 4th edition will be a painful transition, irritating, annoying, and a downright pain, and I truly wish as much as anyone here that WotC had not announced their decision to release it. But, if ISRP is to stay behind in edition 3.5, (which, I frankly would prefer as well) I believe it would lead to its eventual demise. We lose players here all the time at ISRP - be it because of work, family, MMORPGs, whatever. We have a very slow rate of new players. Those new players, assumedly, come straight from enworlds message boards.&nbsp; Imagine, in 6 months time, a new player straight from enworlds message boards, converted straight to 4th edition (or heck, might be playing dnd for the first time, having never seen any of the older editions, as I know I was when I first came to ISRP) - and he enters straight into the forgotten realms room and finds that its 104 years in the past.Not converting ISRP to 4e will cut off our source of new players. I'm not saying other peoples characters need to convert - I'm sure there are people out there who still use 2e for their characters, and I know I'll have all my characters still at 3.5e - but not updating the settings (or at least some of the settings) will provide no desire for new 4e players. No new players means a general decline in the amount of people on ISRP. To simple 'ignore' 4th edition here would be very unwise.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tyrian_Spellstealer, post: 4029009, member: 36470"] I'm as much against the concept of 4e as anyone, but I must disagree with this frame of mind. If you follow this link: [url]http://www.enworld.org/[/url] - you will arrive at enworlds home page. The site that ISRP is hosted on, and our major source of new players. If you'll take the time to actually visit that link you'll see in big fat letters the words: "D&D 4th Edition News". The reality is that for ISRP, 4th edition will be a painful transition, irritating, annoying, and a downright pain, and I truly wish as much as anyone here that WotC had not announced their decision to release it. But, if ISRP is to stay behind in edition 3.5, (which, I frankly would prefer as well) I believe it would lead to its eventual demise. We lose players here all the time at ISRP - be it because of work, family, MMORPGs, whatever. We have a very slow rate of new players. Those new players, assumedly, come straight from enworlds message boards. Imagine, in 6 months time, a new player straight from enworlds message boards, converted straight to 4th edition (or heck, might be playing dnd for the first time, having never seen any of the older editions, as I know I was when I first came to ISRP) - and he enters straight into the forgotten realms room and finds that its 104 years in the past. Not converting ISRP to 4e will cut off our source of new players. I'm not saying other peoples characters need to convert - I'm sure there are people out there who still use 2e for their characters, and I know I'll have all my characters still at 3.5e - but not updating the settings (or at least some of the settings) will provide no desire for new 4e players. No new players means a general decline in the amount of people on ISRP. To simple 'ignore' 4th edition here would be very unwise. [/QUOTE]

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