If 4th Edition didn't use the "D&D" moniker...

[smathis]

Emphatically no.

D&D is hands down the market leader. It's easy to join or form up a D&D group, not so much other games.

The fact that the designers and developers have implemented changes that make 4e appealing to me is very exciting. They have successfully lured me back after 10 years of slogging through an indie-rpg haze. I left 3e for a number of issues and, for the most part, never looked back after running -- more accurately enduring -- a year-and-a-half long campaign.

I'm getting 4e precisely because it is D&D and because now I feel I'll be able to enjoy the experience again. Everything I've seen has been really encouraging.

If this game wasn't D&D, I wouldn't bother. While I think it's great, I feel I should clarify. I think it's great compared to other versions of D&D. I'm not convinced that 4e will be better than Savage Worlds in combat (especially mass combat) and I don't think it will be a better adventure game than Spirit of the Century.

But it doesn't have to be. It's prohibitively difficult to form up a regular group for Micolite20, DitV, tSoY, SotC, SW or pretty much any other non-D&D game. But if I want to participate in a D&D game, generally all I have to do is show up at a game store with a book and some dice.

It's nice to have that sort of convenience with a game that it seems I will like again.

 

[Firevalkyrie]

Emphatically no.

D&D is hands down the market leader. It's easy to join or form up a D&D group, not so much other games.

The fact that the designers and developers have implemented changes that make 4e appealing to me is very exciting. They have successfully lured me back after 10 years of slogging through an indie-rpg haze. I left 3e for a number of issues and, for the most part, never looked back after running -- more accurately enduring -- a year-and-a-half long campaign.

I'm getting 4e precisely because it is D&D and because now I feel I'll be able to enjoy the experience again. Everything I've seen has been really encouraging.

If this game wasn't D&D, I wouldn't bother. While I think it's great, I feel I should clarify. I think it's great compared to other versions of D&D. I'm not convinced that 4e will be better than Savage Worlds in combat (especially mass combat) and I don't think it will be a better adventure game than Spirit of the Century.

But it doesn't have to be. It's prohibitively difficult to form up a regular group for Micolite20, DitV, tSoY, SotC, SW or pretty much any other non-D&D game. But if I want to participate in a D&D game, generally all I have to do is show up at a game store with a book and some dice.

It's nice to have that sort of convenience with a game that it seems I will like again.

Signed.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

If it isn't DnD, I ain't playing it. Every other game I have tried so far has failed to entice me, so I have decided to stop trying.

Yep, that's me, too. I've tried lots of games over the years, and come to the realization that I'm a D&D player. So if someone were to sell a product that were mostly/kinda/somewhat like D&D, but wasn't labelled D&D, I'd probably just ignore it as I have C&C, True20, Hackmaster, Warhammer Fantasy, GURPS Fantasy, Das Schwarze Auge, etc, etc.

In short, no.

 

[cougent]

My option isn't listed.

I'm not buying 4e until I hear some reviews and get a chance to find out what it's like actually printed.'

This is how I feel also. To me it IS a totally new game and so it will have to undergo some scrutiny as any other new game would (will) before I buy into it.

Having the D&D name on it does not do anything for me, so it would not affect me if it were not there either.

 

[Hussar]

Honestly, I probably wouldn't. I don't have time to learn entirely new systems that I will likely never play.

 

[exile]

Yeah, I'd buy it, but I buy a lot of games that I never play.

Chad

 

[Holy Bovine]

yes, i probably would buy it then.

i love truth in advertising.

for me, it won't be D&D. D&D stopped being produced in 1979.

Don't you mean 1974 diaglo Davey Jones?

 

[hong]

If it was by Mike Mearls, I would probably get it, because of, you know.

 

[Vyvyan Basterd]

No - simply because no other game but D&D has the sheer number of published adventures. There are other games I like, but I don't have the time to run them because I don't have time to create my own adventures from scratch.

 

[The_Gneech]

Probably not; it doesn't look like that good of a system to me.

Mind you, I was pleased when they were saying "look to Star Wars Saga Edition for hints of the nature of 4E" 'cause I like SWSE quite a bit. But from what I've seen, they've just gone nuts with the metagamism while simultaneously and deliberately giving certain traditions that I'm quite fond of the finger.

So ... why would I?

-The Gneech