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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Negflar2099" data-source="post: 4720152" data-attributes="member: 65944">I don't want to start any flamewars and I think I already know the answer to this question but here goes anyway. Now that the PHB2 has been released (with Bard, Barbarian, and Half-Orc inside) do you guys think the Giant will switch to 4e or stick with 3.5 as the basis for his world?The reason I ask is the lack of those races and classes was one of the reasons he gave for not wanting to switch. Before you say anything yes I know that those weren't the only reasons he gave but he stated them as being pretty important. Personally if you care to know, I don't think he's going to switch because it would damage his storyline too much but I admit I have mixed feelings. On the one hand I don't want to see his storyline go off on a tangent just because 4e came out. After all it hardly matters what the underlying rule set is. When he first announced he wasn't switching I was afraid his 3.x jokes would feel old or stale but they haven't. OoTS has been as funny as ever. But here's the thing, he setup a number or rules that defined his world and one of those rules was that when a new edition of D&D comes out the world changes to match. I know he set that rule up back before he knew what he was going to do with the strip but I don't think that matters. If you're writing a vampire story and you setup that they can't cross running water you don't get to ignore that just because it gets in the way of your story later on. Once setup like that a rule of your world has to remain unchangeable or at the very least I think we need an explanation of why the world hasn't changed. It wouldn't take more than a single strip to do it too. Some guy comes in to "sell" the gods on the latest edition and they refuse. Look all I'm saying is that he defined the rule and he should stick with it or explain why (in comic) that the rule has changed. What do you guys think? Will he switch? Will he ever have an in-strip reason for why he won't change? Does it matter?</blockquote>

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