D&D 4E I'm not gonna do 4E

[krissbeth]

I still bitch about 3.5, so I have no idea how I'll react to 4E.

I'm fairly satisfied with what we play. If my group switches, I'll learn the new system, yes. No idea if I'll actually invest in the same kind of library I have now.

 

[Piratecat]

Gamers are a funny bunch. I don't know whether it's just being cheap, or just poor financial management skills, but as hobbies go, getting years of value out of a $100 investment is pretty economical. I mean, if you own a car, think about how many hundreds of dollars goes into that investment on a monthly basis.

I just spent $100 on dinner. It was a darn good dinner -- but RPGs are still more fun.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I'll wait and see. If it is IMO quality product then I will lean toward purchase.

QFT.

 

[Teflon Billy]

Gamers are a funny bunch. I don't know whether it's just being cheap, or just poor financial management skills, but as hobbies go, getting years of value out of a $100 investment is pretty economical. I mean, if you own a car, think about how many hundreds of dollars goes into that investment on a monthly basis.

I hear you.

I've never been able to understand the "D&D is too expensive" cries whenever the subject comes up.

I mean, taking my family to a movie costs more than a D&D book.

 

[ruleslawyer]

In all likelihood, it'll streamline skills, eliminate iterative attacks, balance out and simplify the magic system, and maybe even make class options more interchangeable.

In short, I'd be all over this if I didn't play Iron Heroes. Since I play IH, I'll just buy it and cannibalize it over to IH.

 

[Numion]

Too early to call. If it's good, I'll switch, if it isn't, I won't.

Absolutely no reason to make the call yet.

 

[hong]

In all likelihood, it'll streamline skills, eliminate iterative attacks, balance out and simplify the magic system, and maybe even make class options more interchangeable.

In short, I'd be all over this if I didn't play Iron Heroes. Since I play IH, I'll just buy it and cannibalize it over to IH.

I'm cannibalizing IH for D&D....

 

[Turanil]

If it goes the way of Star Wars Saga Edition, I will immediately switch.

If it goes the way of Star Wars Saga Edition, I will immediately discard... (characters really seem overpowered in that game).

I haven't gamed in a couple of years due to a lack of gamers in my area (and on my schedule). I don't see myself buying 4E when it comes out.

Ah, that too, and it's truly the main point where I am concerned...

I don't even play 3E, much, anymore. I'm mostly running C&C and OD&D, these days.

And this too. C&C isn't perfect, but it works well enough (that and True20), so I don't need yet another game.

Plus I suspect that for marketing/$$ reasons, 4e will be made such as to allow and induce a plethora of subsequent supplements, so it cannot be rule-light (WotC can't make money with a straight rule-lite game, they NEED to sell as many additional books as they can). Plus 4e should be made more in the direction of a miniatures game, and I forgot about that cursed dungeonpunk style I so much despise...

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I hope 4e is a bomb. I truely hope it is not better than 3e. That way, I can complain about the new edition and act elitist towards any new players who started playing D&D with 4th edition, and then I can amaze and subdue them with my talk of how things were better in the fabled history of 3rd edition, and how we did things different, and carved dice from soap, walked 10 miles in the snow to play D&D, and loved the ancient but now disappeared OGL.

Yep, those will be good days to remember these days. I will remember them well.

If it's a great game, you can just pretend it sucks - it should work fine on the Web, and it's not like you have to keep up the pretence among your gamer friends.

If it goes the way of Star Wars Saga Edition, I will immediately discard... (characters really seem overpowered in that game).

Overpowered to what? Old versions of the game? Or internally? Ah, no, don't answer this here, it will just lead off-track.

 

[Ipissimus]

I'll wait until it's in my hands at the store before I make my decision. If it's neater and better organized, simplifies the rules, fixes problematic systems (such as the CR system), synthesizes the Epic rules, has a polymorph spell set that actually works, gives people a reason to play a fighter, makes Sorcerers a more appealing class and remains compatable with the 3.5 system then yes, I'll probably buy it.

I didn't buy 3.5 because, well, there weren't enough changes for me to warrent buying a whole new set of books. Likewise, I wouldn't buy 4.5 if they do that.

The trick is not getting into the suppliment spiral. I don't have most of the Complete series books because, well, for me the value for money isn't there. Besides, there was always Dragon and Dungeon Magazine, and with this new model of online content available from WOTC, if they present it in such a way that we can pick and choose what supplimental content we want and pay less money for it I'll do that.

Honestly, the people I hear complaining about the DnD price tag are high school or college students who don't have alot of money of their own. As for myself, I just don't like spending money willy-nilly, I like to get value for my buck. I don't think that's an unreasonable criteria.