Raven Crowking
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Horacio said:
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck.......
I might wait 3 years for v.4.5
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If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck.......
From 3e to 3.5e all changes where minor, changes that, while changing deeply some aspect of gameplay, where small points of the rules.Raven Crowking said:
From 2e to 3e or from 3/3.5e to 4e there are deep changes, the whole game is different.
That's why 3e and 4e are new editions, and 3.5e was a revision.
To take your analogy, 3.5 is a goose. It looks like a duck, more or less, walks like a duck, more or less, swims like a duck, more or less, and quacks like a duck,more or less, but it is not a duck.
Psionaura said:
MwahahaHAHAHAHAHA ! err, sorry
deeply sorry 
I get carried over often ...Does everybody really voiced aloud that we needed a new system before the 4e announcement ? (well, okay, not many did)
No, my friend, they would like you to believe so, but at some point, they will tell you that the rules have evolved so much, that you will NEED another shiny bright new printing, even if that is more of the same.
(They will need it to keep in business anyways...)
w_earle_wheeler
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Horacio said:
Skills & Powers were a set of additional books you could use with your first or later printings of the core 2e books.
It was the same with 1e. The main books were reprinted, but the only real changes inside were errata. The 1.5 was really Unearthed Arcana, which, once again, was an additional book you could use with your core books.
3.5 reprinted the core books in such a manner that you couldn't mix and match them at the same table if you were playing RAW. This was especially true for spellcasters.
3.5 also reprinted the class splatbooks and many of the previously published optional rules, all with major changes.
The line that WotC originally gave us was that the changes in 3.5 were minor but necessary and you could use all the same books together without problems. This was later recanted, and they admited the change from 3.0 to 3.5 was a major one.
The different editions of Basic D&D (from Moldvay and up) were mostly changes in layout and art. The rules were less changed than anything from 3.0 to 3.5. I don't know about the Rules Compendium, though.
dmccoy1693
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If 3.5 wasn't a new edition, then Chuck Norris should be allowed to kick its ass for being an imposter.Maggan said:
I say it with a very straight face, 3.5 was not a new edition.Shadeydm said:
All changes were minor, core books were 80-90% identical, you could take a PC from 3e games and use it in 3.5e without almost any change.
Invoke Chuck Norris if you want, it doesn't change the fact that a goose isn't a duck even if they can look similar.
There will be a 5e, in a few (or not so few) years. It will be natural, video-games have versions, miniature games have versions, movies have remakes...Stereofm said:MwahahaHAHAHAHAHA ! err, sorry
Does everybody really voiced aloud that we needed a new system before the 4e announcement ? (well, okay, not many did)
No, my friend, they would like you to believe so, but at some point, they will tell you that the rules have evolved so much, that you will NEED another shiny bright new printing, even if that is more of the same.
(They will need it to keep in business anyways...)
Look at Warhammer games, new edition every few years and people don't feel cheated (well, they do feel cheated, but they buy and play it anyways).
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