D&D 4E Killing Time Before 4e Comes Out

[Samnell]

Heh, reminds me of trying to read through the Hackmaster players handbook. I got to the class descriptions and started yelling at the book about how arbitrary the xp tables were (one of the things I disliked about AD&D...).

You and me both.

 

[grodog]

I've lost all interest in 3.5, as I'm too excited by the prospect of 4E. I was going to start another game soon, and I'm thinking about 1E, or B/X. Or buying Holmes - I've never played an edition that early. [snip]

Has anyone else felt the urge to play an earlier edition with 4E now on the horizon? Maybe I want to understand 4E in the context of the whole game, not just 3.x.

Sep, if you decide you want to do that, you should definitely check out some of the excellent OD&D and AD&D sites out there: in particular Knights & Knaves @ http://www.knights-n-knaves.com/phpbb/ and Dragonsfoot @ http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/index.php There is also (as I'm sure you've noticed) a lot of OD&D/AD&D discussion here on ENWorld, too, though for rules-specific stuff, I recommend those two. (If you end up playing OD&D instead, you may want to check out Finarvyn's OD&D board @ http://odd74.proboards76.com/ too).

 

[masshysteria]

Has anyone else felt the urge to play an earlier edition with 4E now on the horizon? Maybe I want to understand 4E in the context of the whole game, not just 3.x.

Are you bored? How are you going to kill time before 4E comes out?

Not bored, but it probably helps that my gaming group took a break from D&D this summer and played a bunch of other games: Dogs in the Vineyard, Spirit of the Century, Alternity, and board games. So, everyone was itching to give D&D another go when 4e was announced.

I thought briefly about running an older edition as that could be great fun, but we decided to run the Pathfinder adventures and pull in a bunch of 3e material to play what you've always wanted to play and give 3e a grand send off.

Of course, we could always decide not to make the switch to 4e, but Pathfinder should give us more than enough material to keep busy until he 4e reports are in we need to make that decision.

 

[Simia Saturnalia]

I've been toying around with the idea of writing a Master of Orion RPG (its been on the burner for years).

I have no idea how you even imagine this would work, but I'd like to say now the very idea is awesome.


For my group, we're going to wrap up RttToEE - which is one of my rare opportunities to play - likely around early March having just started Part II, and we'll need something to fill the time. I tend to be the default GM, but I know if I'm running something when 4e hits (especially an old d20 game) I'll lose almost all interest in it.

That said, I'm eying Iron Heroes (for its awesomeness), Rifts (for some seriously crazy romping), Delta Green (because it's Delta Green!), and CP2020 (because I love running it) in the meantime. Something to break out of the D&D vibe, then leap back into it with Keep on the Shadowfell and the rules-as-written (at least for the first three levels), levels 1 through 30 campaign of 4th edition.

 

[Henry]

For our group, We're currently involved in:

--A 3.5 D&D campaign run by one DM in the group
--A Star Wars Saga Edition game set in the Clone wars that I'm running
--And one other player wants to try his hand at DMing with an Eberron campaign.

If all of them go off as planned, we'll probably be gaming clear through February or March on that alone -- possibly clear through to April.