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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anubus" data-source="post: 1093409" data-attributes="member: 12448">I liked the revision thing, that makes sense and generally improves the game.  The new version I have mixed feelings about.  While I think that 3.5 is a much better system than 2 was, I'm not comfortable with the idea of version 4.  I've spent so much on version 2, and now 3, especially 3 thanks to 3rd party publishers,  that if D&D changed out right again, I don't think I'd be going with it.  In fact I would make an effort to avoid seeing the 4 edition books in fear that I would like them, and actually consider switching.  On the other hand should WOTC make another revision, I'd most likely go for that.  Sure its been a pain to switch things from 3 to 3.5, but for the most part changes are easy, like if you needed 5 ranks in wilderness lore before, now you need 5 ranks in survival, easy.  I'm certainly alot more willing to go through this process again than I am willing to buy another system.I often think of how I would like Hasbro to close down WOTC, not that I want those people to lose their jobs or anything,  but as least as far as I'm concerned if there's no WOTC there will be no V4, which makes my wallet very happy.  This is of course assuming that D&D doesn't get sold off to someone else, and Hasbro reserves the name for "Later" projects.I generally feel that if WOTC did try to release V4 soon, that many of the 3rd party publishers would try and resist it, inorder to keep the 3/3.5 people happy.  I'm not sure if WOTC would really be willing to risk splitting the market like that.  So to me it seems to make more sense for them for just continue refining the current system.Wow that's really long winded, sorry  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /> So in summary, revisions good, new versions bad  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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