"Keep On Playing In the New Game"

[Lanefan]

With apologies to Neil Young; to the tune of Rocking In the Free World:


Well colour me a fool
That's how this feels
While they're shuffling the rules
What-see's sleeping at the wheel
And here's a warning sign for the years ahead
If they keep it up like this the game'll soon be dead
Don't feel like speakin' but I am to them
When I hold to tradition any way I can
. . Keep on playing in the new game
. . Keep on playing in the new game
. . Keep on playing in the new game
. . Keep on playing in the new game
There's a player here tonight
A stack of rulebooks in his hand
And a worn old die (and a worn old die)
And a new Dew can (and a new Dew can)
Now he puts the books away and he tries to roll a hit
He hates this game and what they've done to it
There's no more Bards no more Druids no more Gnomes
No Illusionists or Monks, might as well have stayed home
. . Keep on playing in the new game
. . Keep on playing in the new game
. . Keep on playing in the new game
. . Keep on playing in the new game
And now they tell us Points of Light
Is the grand new plan
The game is kinder gentler it holds your hand
It comes with death effects made so much tamer
Got a level each minute for the power gamer
And a whole bunch of people saying go with the flow
Got Orcs to kill, got dice to roll
. . Keep on playing in the new game
. . Keep on playing in the new game
. . Keep on playing in the new game
. . Keep on playing in the new game

Written last October but - after waiting for much more 4e info to arrive - only now seeing the light of day.

Lanefan

 

[zoroaster100]

I like 4E, but I think your song is pretty darn hilarious and has a hint of reality in it. I can really imagine some old gamer with his worn old die and Dew can grumbling in some neighborhood game store as he is forced to play 4E.