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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Harshax" data-source="post: 4216092" data-attributes="member: 61534">It's definitely not about price for me, I have disposable income.  I'll agree that Curt and Games+ is an exemplary example of an FLGS. Curt is the iconic game store owner while at the same time being just a stand-up nice guy. In fact, I still have fond memories of being applauded after losing an auction over a RingWorld Boxed set a few years ago. So yeah, if I change my mind, I'm heading out to Mount Prospect.My friend and I were talking about this yesterday, and it seems to us that while D&D has evolved quite a bit from the times we played B2 in the early 80's, it's still unfair for us to have to wait to play a complete game. With all the different settings, and iterations of fantasy and science fantasy, it's also unfair for me to expect D&D to come fully packaged to me in June.To be honest, not having druids in the core PH pisses me off. Getting it in another book means more shelf and table space is getting consumed just to run my game. I was willing to consider DDI, because I recently caught up with one of my old gaming buddies who now lives in Hawaii, but as a professional geek for the NYSE, I must confess, I don't really like computers. It pays more than just the bills, but I don't want to spend anymore time at the console.I hate to say this, because I don't like being pointlessly anachronistic (it's not cool or retro, but the best edition of D&D was 1E.  Not because of the mechanics. Seriously, after 30 years of evolution, 1E is an Edsel compared to how we game today. But because it was concise, in the sense that you really did have everything you needed for play in 3 books. (That's not entirely true, the Fiend Folio was mandatory IMO)I cast an imaginary eye at my bygone bookcase of RPG's; game systems and settings alike; and what I remember most is killing orcs and chewing bubblegum and I was always out of bubblegum. I don't need a new system for killing orcs.What I want, is something more along the lines of the Guide to the Ethereal/Inner/Astral Plane. Crunch [mostly] without mechanics. Everyone can have their Fourth Edition, I just want the setting. A Greyhawk riff of Harnworld - no mechanics. That would totally rule.</blockquote>

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