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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 4193760" data-attributes="member: 50987">I would rate my interest at around 3.  Maybe I am more pessimistic than the next nerd, but I just can't bring myself to assume that 4E will be the Best Game Evar, sight-unseen.  Right now, it seems that its biggest selling point is "look everyone...it's not three-five!"  And while that proclaimation is easy to rally around, it is hardly unique.  There are a lot of games that "aren't three-five" out there.  I need a bigger reason to like 4E. Up until just last week, we have been given very little "real" information on 4E.  Sure, there were little teaser bits, rumors, rampant speculation, a picture of a mini or a pregenerated character...some of it good, some of it bad.  But there was nothing solid, nothing really playable.  I tried to run a "pre-4E" game with the piecemeal information that fans had collected and a fan-written adventure, and it was a catastrophe.  Now that WotC has started filling the information void, my interest has started to pick up...but for a while there, I was getting tired of hearing about it.  It's hard to stay excited about gossip.This is probably why I am more interested in Pathfinder right now.  Paizo has released much more information than WotC has, and they've released it in a much more useful format.  Paizo is also soliciting playtesting from a much wider base of players...anyone who wants to playtest it can do so.  In short: I've seen more of Pathfinder than I have of 4E, and I've played more Pathfinder than I have 4E.  This doesn't make it a better game, necessarily...but it does make me more interested.I imagine my interest will go up 2 or 3 points once I have the books...but unless 4E jumps the shark as soon as I open the box, my interest won't go much higher than that.</blockquote>

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