I just accidentlied all over the new HIVE! lol

[Tinker Gnome]

Right now the only systems I am interested in are DnD 3.5, Pathfinder, and BESM 1E.

 

[Dog Moon]

I think 4e has some ideas that could be interesting and will keep a little eye out for stuff I could modify and input into my 3e games, but other than that, our group has tired of 4e.

I'm also starting to get the itch to run a modern game, which 4e doesn't seem to be able to do well... especially without rules for any sort of firearm.

 

[CleverNickName]

I like the idea of a 5th Edition. I really like talking about how game systems can be improved or reworked...or completely overhauled for that matter.

When 4E was first announced, these boards were teeming with ideas and feedback: the creative juices were practically knee-deep around here. The game was going to be bigger, better, smoother, sexier, whatever, it was going to be awesome! Everyone had an idea, everyone was cheering everyone else on, the sky was the limit.

Then 4E was released and *SQUISH,* those discussions all got trampled into the mud as the 3tards and 4ons waged war after pointless war with each other.

Nowadays, if you start a thread to discuss the ways that 4E might be overhauled and/or improved, you will not draw the attention of other freestyle gamers. Instead, you will incur the wrath of the gaming elite, who feel you are somehow trying to undermine the success of the 4th Edition of the game. And they will vent their spleens all over your thread and everyone in it, until Piratecat finally shuts it down in disgust.

So I like the thought of 5th Edition, even if it is purely hypothetical. I miss the discussion, the feedback, the crazy ideas. I don't want to offend anyone, and I don't want to steal anyone's mirth. I just happen to think that 4E has a lot of room for improvement, and it sucks that we can't have a serious discussion about that here at ENWorld.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Maybe what they need is an experimental rules discussion subforum.. One whose main point is to have discussions about doing total 4e rules overhauling and tinkering beyond house rules or something. Oh, and place a note saying that the subforum is for serious "experimental" 4e rules discussion.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I like the idea of a 5th Edition. I really like talking about how game systems can be improved or reworked...or completely overhauled for that matter.

When 4E was first announced, these boards were teeming with ideas and feedback: the creative juices were practically knee-deep around here. The game was going to be bigger, better, smoother, sexier, whatever, it was going to be awesome! Everyone had an idea, everyone was cheering everyone else on, the sky was the limit.

Good times.

Then 4E was released and *SQUISH,* those discussions all got trampled into the mud as the 3tards and 4ons waged war after pointless war with each other.

Nowadays, if you start a thread to discuss the ways that 4E might be overhauled and/or improved, you will not draw the attention of other freestyle gamers. Instead, you will incur the wrath of the gaming elite, who feel you are somehow trying to undermine the success of the 4th Edition of the game. And they will vent their spleens all over your thread and everyone in it, until Piratecat finally shuts it down in disgust..

You are forgetting the guys that will say that will also denigrate the play style and your personality for having certain goals. Just look at the "No-Miss" discussion - suddenly people get labeled as "immature" just because they think of a different way to handle to-hit mechanics.

Maybe what they need is an experimental rules discussion subforum.. One whose main point is to have discussions about doing total 4e rules overhauling and tinkering beyond house rules or something. Oh, and place a note saying that the subforum is for serious "experimental" 4e rules discussion.

I actually like this idea, though some might say that's what the "House Rules" forum is in for. But it might have a different focus, more "brainstorming" what one can do with the system or what new systems one can create.

But even the House Rules forum has sometimes to fight with nay-sayers. "No, don't house-rule this, you will ruin everything!" without adding anything constructive. Come on, if someone has gone to the House Rules forum, he is not that much interested in hearing "don't house rule" but how to achieve the goals of his house rules, however brilliant, stupid or game-wrecking others might consider these goals.

 

[Aeson]

Edition War comes to the HIVE!!! Flee! BURN the Heretics!!!

 

[Phaezen]

Edition War comes to the HIVE!!! Flee! BURN the Heretics!!!

*Brandishes Torch*

We caught a witch may we burn her?

 

[Aeson]

My birthday is coming up. I don't feel like doing anything with my friends or family. I kind of feel like doing nothing at all or going alone so at least I get to do what, when, and how I want to do it.

 

[Blackrat]

I kind of feel like doing nothing at all or going alone so at least I get to do what, when, and how I want to do it.

You know, that's not half a bad idea. I personally like to spend my birthdays at home, playing and eating a good meal and cake If a friend wants to come and visit, sure, but they better not be harassing me about my birthday...

 

[The_Warlock]

I usually make sure to request my birthday as a vacation day so I don't even have to go to work.

Then the nearest convenient evening, I invite people over to play console or board games, and bring pot luck food.

That way I don't have to cook either.