I might wait 3 years for v.4.5

[Raven Crowking]

Scott Rouse has stated that there will be no 4.5. So, I think that as long as he and others who are there presently are still in their same jobs in a few years, I think this is true.

I can point you to the post where WotC said we'd have at least a year's warning before a new edition was released. Of course, when a year's warning wasn't given, it wasn't because WotC was lying; what was believed true then simply isn't true now. Just as what is believed true now might not be true later.


RC

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

Example them.

Call of Cthulhu (on version 6 not including at least one .5 version)
Champions (on version 5)
Traveller (I'm not sure I can count that high - at least five, but none of them are numbered, I might be low by a couple)
GURPS (4th edition)

Is there any system nearly as old as D&D that has been continuously in print that doesn't have as many or more versions?

I can point you to the post where WotC said we'd have at least a year's warning before a new edition was released.

Could you please? I'm not saying you're wrong on this point; I seem to remember something similar, but I don't know if it was a misquote like so many of the others floating around. I'm trying to accumulate the actual original quotes so that we can verify or debunk some of the stories going around about who said what.

 

[dmccoy1693]

Scott Rouse has stated that there will be no 4.5. So, I think that as long as he and others who are there presently are still in their same jobs in a few years, I think this is true.

Yea, and we were told that there's be "at least a year's notice" before 4E came out. YMMV, but I don't take anything any major company (or many minor companies) says as gospel.

I asked him how long until 5e and he ballparked 8-10 years.

IIRC, that was WotC's response as to when 4E was coming out.

 

[just__al]

I don't understand why so many people are uneasy about the mere possibility of a D&D 4.5 (or 4x, or 4Expanded, or whatever.) I like the fact that D&D is dynamic, always changing, always being upgraded and improved every few years. I would much rather they release multiple editions that improve upon each other, than to release a single product with no intentions of improving it for a decade.

It's not like we are required to always buy the newest books...the 3.5 rules are still quite playable. I know of at least one gaming group that still uses red box rules, if you can imagine, and they love it. (Remember when "elf" was a CLASS? Yikes.) It's not my thing, but that doesn't make it a bad system.

I'm not afraid of 4.5 (or even 4.01B, for that matter). Bring it on...if I like it, I'll buy it.

As I look back at my gaming shelf, I see a 3.0 DMG, PHB, Monster Manual, MM2, Fiend Folio Savage species and the only reason I didn't buy the 3.0 splat books was because I was leant them by someone in our group who wasn't DM'ing and "didn't need them right now"

I fully intend to buy 4.0, everything they hint at I'm really digging but there's about 200 odd dollars worth of books I got 2 years out of before I switched to 3.5 so that I was current with Dragon and most importantly Dungeon Mag which was a major source of adventure material for me and my limited time to prepare for games.

That's why some people are upset. I'm upset about the fact that I prepared about 6 hours for one battle that took about 3 hours to game through. Everything they promise about 4e really really intregues me and I'd like to subscribe to their newsletter.

I'm not afraid of 4e but I dropped a LOT of money on 3.5 books and I'd be upset there's a new edition if it hasn't already started to WOW me and I've seen mabye 1% of it and that's all subject to change...

 

[Raven Crowking]

Call of Cthulhu (on version 6 not including at least one .5 version)
Champions (on version 5)
Traveller (I'm not sure I can count that high - at least five, but none of them are numbered, I might be low by a couple)
GURPS (4th edition)

Is there any system nearly as old as D&D that has been continuously in print that doesn't have as many or more versions?

Are we counting the half-versions in D&D as editions? Are we counting Blue Box, RC, etc? Because, if we are, then D&D is still the winner.

Could you please? I'm not saying you're wrong on this point; I seem to remember something similar, but I don't know if it was a misquote like so many of the others floating around.

Sure, though it'll take me a bit. I just dug it up the other day for another 4e thread.

RC

EDIT: Here you go: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=110173

 

[Maggan]

IIRC, that was WotC's response as to when 4E was coming out.

8-10 years? Well, they landed in the low digit of that span, but still within the span.

/M

 

[Shadeydm]

8-10 years? Well, they landed in the low digit of that span, but still within the span.

/M

So 3.5 was released 8 years ago?

 

[DaveMage]

Yea, and we were told that there's be "at least a year's notice" before 4E came out. YMMV, but I don't take anything any major company (or many minor companies) says as gospel.


IIRC, that was WotC's response as to when 4E was coming out.

I'm just reporting, not asserting.

 

[Horacio]

So 3.5 was released 8 years ago?

3.5 wasn't a new edition, as 2e Skills and Powers wasn't it.

 

[Maggan]

So 3.5 was released 8 years ago?

3e -> 4e = 8 years.

But my guess is that you already know what I meant with my post.

/M