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<blockquote data-quote="(contact)" data-source="post: 4130821" data-attributes="member: 41"><p>It's interesting to see how many people are canceling pre-orders due to the mis-timing of this release. I seem to recall that it was initially slated to roll out a month early? I'm assuming that it got pushed back, which kind of de-fangs it as the "play 4e early" release.</p><p></p><p>With 64 pages, it's understandable that they couldn't offer a range of powers to choose from as you level, but boy wouldn't this have been a great opportunity to get your early adopters over to your "fourth pillar of D&D" by having part of your vaunted rules database go public by the time the module released.</p><p></p><p>You could have a page on DnDi detailing the options available to the pre-gen PCs, etc.</p><p></p><p>Even better (for us nostalgic grognards), bundle it with a blue-book style limited PHB, that covers 1st through 3rd level with a limited selection of classes and monsters. </p><p></p><p>I'm guessing that they'll use their 4e iconics for this adventure -- unless they 86ed iconics for some reason. If they had their stuff together (and you know they haven't shown any evidence of that to date) they would be the same characters from DnDex, because they'd be putting their iconics forward as the public face of the generic classes.</p><p></p><p>At this point, everything related to 4e that isn't the rule set or a core rule-book looks kind of raggedy and clumsily done. WotC certainly seems like an overstretched organization.</p><p></p><p>Here's to hoping that the rules are the exception to the current trend. I'm sure that in concept they'll be fantastic, but I'm not sure how well playtested they'll be. Better than 2e, worse than 3e is my guess.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="(contact), post: 4130821, member: 41"] It's interesting to see how many people are canceling pre-orders due to the mis-timing of this release. I seem to recall that it was initially slated to roll out a month early? I'm assuming that it got pushed back, which kind of de-fangs it as the "play 4e early" release. With 64 pages, it's understandable that they couldn't offer a range of powers to choose from as you level, but boy wouldn't this have been a great opportunity to get your early adopters over to your "fourth pillar of D&D" by having part of your vaunted rules database go public by the time the module released. You could have a page on DnDi detailing the options available to the pre-gen PCs, etc. Even better (for us nostalgic grognards), bundle it with a blue-book style limited PHB, that covers 1st through 3rd level with a limited selection of classes and monsters. I'm guessing that they'll use their 4e iconics for this adventure -- unless they 86ed iconics for some reason. If they had their stuff together (and you know they haven't shown any evidence of that to date) they would be the same characters from DnDex, because they'd be putting their iconics forward as the public face of the generic classes. At this point, everything related to 4e that isn't the rule set or a core rule-book looks kind of raggedy and clumsily done. WotC certainly seems like an overstretched organization. Here's to hoping that the rules are the exception to the current trend. I'm sure that in concept they'll be fantastic, but I'm not sure how well playtested they'll be. Better than 2e, worse than 3e is my guess. [/QUOTE]
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