New 4e updates to old 3.5 products

[The Halfling]

I found this post from Chris Perkins on the WotC boards:

That's correct. The following updates will release in July:

Exemplars of Evil
Elder Evils
Fortress of the Yuan-ti
Stormreach
Dragons of Eberron
Anauroch


Normally I'd say "Better late than never," but these are pretty damn late. Again, profuse apologies. We suck.

Chris

Wizards Community - View Single Post - We Will Not Forget! (City of Stormreach 4E Update)

 

[johnnype]

Boy, I didn't see this coming. So are you telling me that WotC is releasing some sort of document with conversion stats for these books? Was this always part of the plan? Are any other books going to be converted?

Looking at the list I notice I only own one of the books. I assume you have to own the book to get the conversion document, yes?

 

[blargney the second]

Hey, that's awesome! I've been waiting on the Stormreach and Dragons of Eberron updates for a long time. I'll be very happy to see them.
-blarg

 

[catsclaw227]

That basically gives Eberron 2 more 4e products. Nice.

 

[Shroomy]

Does anyone know what these updates will include? I'm guessing it will include mostly new stats, which is always welcome.

 

[malraux]

Boy, I didn't see this coming. So are you telling me that WotC is releasing some sort of document with conversion stats for these books? Was this always part of the plan? Are any other books going to be converted?

Looking at the list I notice I only own one of the books. I assume you have to own the book to get the conversion document, yes?

These books were published after the 4e announcement and sold with the promise that they would receive conversion to 4e via DDI once 4e was released. Its unclear how the conversion document will be released, but I would hope it would be just a freely downloadable pdf as some consolation for the year long delay in publishing. Of course, as a DDi subscriber, what I really care about is this stuff showing up in the compendium.

 

[JoeGKushner]

I am looking forward to Exemplars of Evil and Elder Evils.

I always felt that was a screw job of splitting the material into two books because there are so many overlapping areas that it could've benefited from being a single 320 page book as opposed to two seperate books.

This free, long overdue update, goes a long way in making these books useful again for the mechanics as opposed to just the ideas. Heck, I was nervous that they were just going to update the stuff piecemeal through books like they did the Worm that Walks in the Open Grave book.

 

[Jhaelen]

I'm pleasantly surprised they're keeping their promise on these. But since these are good to further promote 4E I understand why they considered it important.

I was _not_ pleased that they didn't keep their promise about releasing the missing 3E errata. But I understand that, too, since it's only relevant for those still playing 3E...

 

[Amphimir Míriel]

Yay! Exemplars of Evil 4E!

 

[Nikosandros]

I'm pleasantly surprised they're keeping their promise on these.

Yes... sometimes it's nice to be wrong!