D&D 4E If 4e fails you, what then?
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shadowguidex
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I'd probably quit tabletop gaming and move over entirely to MMOs. I'm so excited about 4E that I have already lost interest in 3E. If 4E comes out a dud, I just don't think I can ever go back to 3E either.
Orius
Unrepentant DM Supremacist
I'd probably hybridize 3.5 and 4e or something. Many of the design philosophies behind 4e actually seem sound, but OTOH, I'm not enthusiastic about some of the implied flavor, and the willingness to slaughter sacred cows. Much of how D&D feels to me was largly established back in late 2e, and in the last few years WotC has been moving away from that. I could ignore it more easily when it was just in 3.5 splats, but it's harder to do so when stuff gets added and removed from core.
For a personal game I'd be running I'm not overly worried if everything balances out in a zero sum. I've DMed enough that I'm comfortable winging things and fudging, and I try to be fair to the PCs while trying to chalenge them. I don't need to follow things by the book perfectly. Even if I don't want to run a 4e game, I might still be willing to play a PC in one.
For a personal game I'd be running I'm not overly worried if everything balances out in a zero sum. I've DMed enough that I'm comfortable winging things and fudging, and I try to be fair to the PCs while trying to chalenge them. I don't need to follow things by the book perfectly. Even if I don't want to run a 4e game, I might still be willing to play a PC in one.
That One Guy
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Is that why this thread looks so familiar?Gundark said:
In response to the OP's prompt...
I've been running Pre-4e pretty well for the past month. If real 4e is not as fun... I'll be disturbed. I'll probably take the things that are fun, and then go back to D&D3.9 or whatever one would choose to call it at that point.
On the non-D&D front, there's oWoD and nWoD (I go both ways), an unused Exalted book on the shelf, and I could always try to make 3.x more like 4e... or work on the 3.x system I was working on that was increasingly becoming not 3.x nor 4e, but similar to both.
But having 4e be mostly fun and fixed with a few swift house rules sounds good to me (Although, I imagine most changes'll be cosmetic. Tiefling orb eyes. Lolz).
frankthedm
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Warhammer fantasy roleplay or Maybe I'll try get the group to give Classic Dark Conspiracy a shot.
PeterWeller
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I'll run a BECMI campaign set in Grey Box FR, and I will remember why this crap is so frikking awesome.
Henry
Autoexreginated
Oh, come now -- we're gamers! If one system doesn't do it for us, we kitbash until something will. 
I shouldn't think if it's important enough to a person, that they would spend the time to tweak a system until it worked for what they wanted; it's something gamers have been doing since pushing around little Napoleonic minis on sand tables...
I shouldn't think if it's important enough to a person, that they would spend the time to tweak a system until it worked for what they wanted; it's something gamers have been doing since pushing around little Napoleonic minis on sand tables...
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