I was "booed" for even showing the 4e Core books

[howandwhy99]

There were some displays of disgust at the 2008 DragonCon here in Atlanta. However, most of the RPG play was 4E too, so reception of the game was fairly divided. Of course the US has been in a rather divisive mood of late, so it's hard to read actual attitudes by judging behavior with extremism so popular.

 

[Skaven_13]

I'll just note that I own both Synnibarr and 4e. Does this mean I win the thread?

I have a copy of Powers & Perils, too (along with an adventure module and the Perilous Lands setting), and it actually seems far more playable than Synnibarr.

-O

Woohoo! Powers and Perils! The first game I started using a spreadsheet to track my character.

Although I thought it did a good job for handling fighting ability and magical ability as two separate elements to develop.

Skaven13

 

[resistor]

The whole thing reminds me of Windows "Mojave". For those of you who don't know, look it up. Microsoft decided to rename Vista into Mojave. They then asked people what they thought of Vista and if they would ever buy it. "No! Never. I've heard horrible things about it. It's a bad system." They then try "Mojave" and say, "I love it! This is everything that I've ever wanted. Cool stuff." There's a good look of shock on their faces when they realize that it's actually Vista.

You are aware that the Mojave experiment was a complete crock?

The subjects saw "Mojave" for only 10 minutes, total, on machines setup and pre-configured by Microsoft to meet the needs pre-determined for that specific user. In addition, they didn't "try" it. It was demo'd to them by trained experts, with the aspects of the system to be demonstrated completely determined by Microsoft. The "subjects" were never allowed to touch the computer.

I wouldn't go using it as an example to support your point. ;-)

 

[Arashi Ravenblade]

Im not reading 4 pages. So im responding on to the topic starter.
Yes i have encountered this. In fact aside from here on enworld (I dont tend to go to other message boards for D&D) the response has been overwhelmingly negative in the real world.
Between going to stores where the cant move the books and offering steap discounts to trying to return them to the distributer I dont think 4e did so well on its own mertis so much as out of curiostiy.
Didnt 4e sell initially better than 3e did initially? I heard that online dont know if it's true. But if it is, why cant Game shops over the 3 states I visit move them? And I dont go to just one per state. I go to 5 in Ohio, 3 In Pennsylvania and 2 in NY.
Of course your experiences may be different.

 

[RFisher]

The whole thing reminds me of Windows "Mojave".

The thing is, Vista always demo’d well. It earned its bad rep when people tried to live with it.

Which might be an interesting idea for a thread: What RPGs demo’d well but lost their luster after you lived with them for a while?

 

[Obryn]

Woohoo! Powers and Perils! The first game I started using a spreadsheet to track my character.

Although I thought it did a good job for handling fighting ability and magical ability as two separate elements to develop.

Skaven13

Yeah, there was actually some really neat stuff in the game. I remember thinking it looked fun, but I never got any buy-in from my group for some reason.

-O

 

[Gundark]

4E is the first time I've had a fellow gamer roll his eyes and simply refuse to play (it broke up my group, too). I mean, we're talking about a group that would happily roll with the worst game-systems out there, simply to say we'd done it.

I am 99% positive that my former gamer-buddies would be more willing to play World of Synnibar or FATAL than 4E.

I'm sorry....that's effed up

 

[Gundark]

Of course your experiences may be different.

And 4e sells very well where I live

 

[MichaelSomething]

Did it never occur to anyone that they might have just been going, "Booo-urns?"

 

[Ulrick]

Did it never occur to anyone that they might have just been going, "Booo-urns?"

Hans Moleman wasn't part of the crowd.