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Is my friend's unwillingness to try 4e irrational?
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<blockquote data-quote="DonTadow" data-source="post: 4047066" data-attributes="member: 22622"><p>However, you're not going to get much more enjoyment out of it. If you're having fun now, you're goint to have the same fun later. That's not a slight, its just that fun is not quanitive. There's no way of saying hey i'm at fun 9 now but 4e pushed me to 10. Heck, every gaming session is different. some are 10s and we've all had the 4s before. </p><p></p><p> That's the problem with upgrading editions. If there are rules that are broken, bad and plane awful and they make up the entire system, you're going to have a huge migration. If you're saying that things that will make dming better (which a lot of 3.5 books already do), theres a mapping system (which there are 5 spectacular programs for in 3.5).</p><p></p><p>Wotc wants upgrading to a new edition to be like buying a new game system. Unfortunately, it doesn't work like that. rpgs are not dependent on technology, so there is no huge upgrade in graphics and interface when upgrading to a new edition. There are some rules changes, but these changes aren't dependent on a system. Meaning there is nothing stopping me from taking one change and converting it to 3.5 if its that important. </p><p></p><p>As a DM, it sure seems to help out alot, but I"ve created enough scripts, houserules and dm tricks to run my 3.5 game as seemless as 4e seems to be. A lot of DMs have.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DonTadow, post: 4047066, member: 22622"] However, you're not going to get much more enjoyment out of it. If you're having fun now, you're goint to have the same fun later. That's not a slight, its just that fun is not quanitive. There's no way of saying hey i'm at fun 9 now but 4e pushed me to 10. Heck, every gaming session is different. some are 10s and we've all had the 4s before. That's the problem with upgrading editions. If there are rules that are broken, bad and plane awful and they make up the entire system, you're going to have a huge migration. If you're saying that things that will make dming better (which a lot of 3.5 books already do), theres a mapping system (which there are 5 spectacular programs for in 3.5). Wotc wants upgrading to a new edition to be like buying a new game system. Unfortunately, it doesn't work like that. rpgs are not dependent on technology, so there is no huge upgrade in graphics and interface when upgrading to a new edition. There are some rules changes, but these changes aren't dependent on a system. Meaning there is nothing stopping me from taking one change and converting it to 3.5 if its that important. As a DM, it sure seems to help out alot, but I"ve created enough scripts, houserules and dm tricks to run my 3.5 game as seemless as 4e seems to be. A lot of DMs have. [/QUOTE]
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