I may not be switching to D&D 3.5 (Crossposted)

[Regdar]

Eric, Regdar agrees with you on the support, Regdar lives by the lap top.

 

[Dr. Strangemonkey]

I'm not sure why, but my notes scrawled on paper always seem to be more creative than my notes written on computer. Weird.

Back in the early days, 1970s and 80s, when there was still a lot of conroversy over whether or not to allow computers into writing programs, they used to do a lot of studies on this phenomena.

Noone has done any using modern tech like color monitors and better interfaces since everyone pretty much accepts that higher education is committed to computers regardless, but...

...they used to come up with some pretty interesting data. A lot of difficult to use since noone knows how much of the cognition involved in writing works. But they did find that the difference in how your writing worked in space, 3D and wildly manipulated in paper scraps 2D and much more easily micro managed in software, created some mighty behaviour changes.

Though people who had only ever used computers didn't know how to work with paper scrap technology and were very resistant to retraining

This was all at Carnegie Mellon.

 

[Sir Whiskers]

Olgar:

If you ever do update HeroForge, please consider making it available (you'll probably need the original author's permission). I find this tool extremely useful for PC's and NPC's, especially those monstrous ones. It's very customizable, if you're willing to track down every formula and reference in the program - something I rarely have time for. If you or someone else updates it to 3.5, I'd dearly love to get a copy.

 

[diaglo]

C'mon, Di, focus - this thread ain't for smackin' on 3E. Do you even use 3rd edition D&D currently, you DOS-lover, you?

i haven't used the Revised Holmes edition for years.


DOS. that is too current for me.

i still use punch card technology.

 

[Henry]

Eric, Regdar agrees with you on the support, Regdar lives by the lap top.

So THAT's why you never turn around. I'll be you've got that bad-boy strapped to your back in place of a shield.

 

[Zappo]

DOS. that is too current for me.

i still use punch card technology.

Punch cards! You youngsters have it too easy these days, I say! Why, back in my days, the only computers we had were those big stone circles we used to predict eclypses.

Punch cards! Try to program using 2-tons slabs of stone, you spoiled brat.

Even back then, though, when your old 66-MegaLiths circle became obsolete, it was always cheaper to build a new 133-MegaLiths one than upgrading. That's why you see so many of them around.

 

[Gez]

I may not be switching to D&D 3.5

I may not be switching to D&D 3.5

I may too, but that's because of the stupid change to haste ! Stupid stupid stupid !

That and the obsolescence of all my D&D/d20 collection. Don't want to buy FRCS revised, MM2 revised, MotP revised, Psionics revised, Tome of Horrors revised...

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Too bad there are way more people who would keep buying the same material, "revised", every other year.

 

[Dragongirl]

Personally I use a computer for gaming, but nothing beyond a word processor. I have never seen a program that is changable enough to suit what I would want. BUT, for those of you who like them I do hope they offer a 3.5 edition for you.

What I find the saddest thing though is Eric saying he will not use anything from other publishers that is not supported by some computer program. I would find that terribly limiting, but that is me.

 

[Perithoth]

Hey all,

Sigh. Once again, my slowly returning memory is being jogged by the various post on this message forums.

Anthony V. said that electronic support is being worked on but could not give any details beccause of the current legal negociations that were going on.

We tried to pry more out of him but that was all that was being said at the WF revised 3e Seminar.

Eric, I will bet that there will be eletronic support within months of the release, sooner if the various DM and player helper programs get a peek at 3.5 before the rest of us.

Bryan Blumklotz
AKA Perithoth
Lord of Grumpiness