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<blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 3824188" data-attributes="member: 1106">Reading this thread, I can't help but think of a company I was told about that always stays &quot;one version behind&quot; with regard to the Windows operating system (i.e. they only switched to XP when Vista came out).With every new edition, the D&amp;D sandcastle gets knocked over, and has to be rebuilt.&nbsp; We seem to be seeing hints that next year's initial core books will be missing some favourite and arguably &quot;fundamental&quot; D&amp;D monsters and classes, and we'll be left waiting for later years to get them.&nbsp; It therefore sounds like this sandcastle is going to take longer to rebuild than normal.3E is essentially complete, and has entire campaigns already written for it.&nbsp; There may be more fun to be had remolding some adventure path like Age of Worms in your personal image than in riding the 4E rollercoaster, which won't have this level of resources built up for years.&nbsp; 3E is in much less desperate need of a rules overhaul than 1E and 2E were.&nbsp; The books are going to be going cheap on ebay, too.Anyways, regardless of the luddite grognard fogeyism connotations of such heretical thought, it's a thought nonetheless.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rounser, post: 3824188, member: 1106"] Reading this thread, I can't help but think of a company I was told about that always stays "one version behind" with regard to the Windows operating system (i.e. they only switched to XP when Vista came out). With every new edition, the D&D sandcastle gets knocked over, and has to be rebuilt. We seem to be seeing hints that next year's initial core books will be missing some favourite and arguably "fundamental" D&D monsters and classes, and we'll be left waiting for later years to get them. It therefore sounds like this sandcastle is going to take longer to rebuild than normal. 3E is essentially complete, and has entire campaigns already written for it. There may be more fun to be had remolding some adventure path like Age of Worms in your personal image than in riding the 4E rollercoaster, which won't have this level of resources built up for years. 3E is in much less desperate need of a rules overhaul than 1E and 2E were. The books are going to be going cheap on ebay, too. Anyways, regardless of the luddite grognard fogeyism connotations of such heretical thought, it's a thought nonetheless. [/QUOTE]

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