D&D 4E Rate your interest in 4e.

[el-remmen]

On a 1-10 scale, I'd give it a 3, for much the same reasons Eric listed.

What he said.

I will probably stick with 3.x as my main game and necessary D&D fix. I do have a kind of wild idea kind of based on Avatar that I think the 4E rules would be good for, but I doubt what with my time limitations that I would get to run it any time before 5E comes out.

 

[mmu1]

But then, when would you ever vote 9? (Personally, I probably never would, but doesn't this just make 8 the new 9?)

Well, I guess you could view 10 (or 9, in this case) as the top 10%, rather than the pinnacle of perfection - it'd be reasonable then... but clearly, the people who claim they'd have voted higher than the max if it were possible aren't looking at it that way, eh?

Though mainly, I'm just amazed at the number of people who feel it deserves the perfect score, but maybe that's because I'm a cynical bastard and I've never played an RPG system I'd rate higher than an 8 on a 1-10 scale. I've played in individual games I'd rate higher, but an RPG rulebook? Nah.

 

[el-remmen]

But mmu, aren't people voting for how hotly they are anticipating it, not actually rating the game?

Did I misunderstand the question? It says "rating your interest," not "predict how good the game will be".

 

[Plane Sailing]

I voted 8 because the majority of things that I've seen or heard about I really like, but there are a few mechanics that I don't like the sound of at the moment (marking mechanic, I'm looking at you!) and quite a bit of fluff that I don't like (their pantheon/angels/astral sea stuff... I'm waiting to see what I think about that, but I'll probably be changing things for my own campaign. The annoyance is that other campaigns that I play in will probably use fluff that I don't like without changing it

Cheers

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

7 for me. I think some of it looks really interesting and I'm glad to see the excitement the new edition is fostering, but I have some doubts that the game will really appeal to me. I will be purchasing the 3 books and look forward to reading through them and trying the game out, but I don't want to set my expectations too high and be disappointed.

 

[Xorn]

Well, I guess you could view 10 (or 9, in this case) as the top 10%, rather than the pinnacle of perfection - it'd be reasonable then... but clearly, the people who claim they'd have voted higher than the max if it were possible aren't looking at it that way, eh?

Though mainly, I'm just amazed at the number of people who feel it deserves the perfect score, but maybe that's because I'm a cynical bastard and I've never played an RPG system I'd rate higher than an 8 on a 1-10 scale. I've played in individual games I'd rate higher, but an RPG rulebook? Nah.

Voted 9, would have voted 10 (or 11).

You are correct, I can't imagine being more excited about a RPG than I am about 4E. I could imagine being more excited--period--but not over a RPG. I've never been this excited about a new RPG, and after DMing my 3.x game slowly into unplayability, I certainly couldn't be this excited about touch-up work on 3.x. So top of the chart.

You're assigning perfection to the 9. I've never encountered perfection in a RPG, so my scale doesn't go up to perfect. Comparing my excitement for 4E to my RPing history of 24 years, 4E is on the top of my range of previous excitement. Incidentally, when I got the red box D&D in 1984, when I had the chicken pox in 4th grade and was out of school for a week--that was top of the poll, too. When I started playing Rifts for the first time--that was a 7. When I cracked open the 3E PHB when it first came out (came free with the Ruins of Mystara computer game), that was an 8. It's been twenty-four years, and I'm at least as excited about 4E as I was when I opened up that beautiful red-box that Mentzer did. So it's a 9. I'm as excited as I have ever been about D&D right now, and any RPG I've seen.

 

[ShockMeSane]

I voted a 9, simply based on the test-run I DM"d my players through last week with crappy pre-gen characters. We actually interrupted an ongoing 3.x campaign because the DM was out of town that week (me and another guy alternate DMing, he gets the last 3.x, I get the first 4e), so I decided that I would run a 4e demo to acclimate the other 5 people in our regular group to 4e. Needless to say, everyone enjoyed it immensely, and at the bar afterwards we all seemed to be in agreement that our poor DM who was MIA that week would have trouble finishing out his 3.x campaign because everyone was so insanely excited about the changes 4e brings to the table.

This is not to say that I don't have concerns, of course I do, and I have detailed them in other threads. However, this poll is "how interested are you", and my anticipation level is the highest it has ever been for an RPG, largely biased by how well my group recieved the demo... which doesn't even let you design your own character. So yea, I'm stoked. I'm gonna be up visiting my dad in Seattle the weekend 4e comes out, and although I've pre-ordered, I have contemplated ninja-raiding WotC headquarters while I'm up there

 

[UngeheuerLich]

9. I like a lot of the ideas behind 4e.

And whats more important:
-its shiney
-its new
-I want to really try it out if it actually meets my expectations (HOMM5 didn´t until the second add-on)

 

[Jack99]

But mmu, aren't people voting for how hotly they are anticipating it, not actually rating the game?

Did I misunderstand the question?

No, Sir!

 

[WhimsyTheFae]

I think that I've been between a 7 and 8 in the past, but I am now at about a 4. I will probably end up playing in a 4e game, if we switch over, but I am having so much fun running SWSE that I don't have much interest in 4e (let alone 3.5e, 2e, 1e, etc.).