D&D 4E Sight unseen - what are your plans for 4E?

[Arnwyn]

Definitely sticking with a previous edition (3.x). My players have refused to consider (and certainly won't buy, in any case) any new edition, so we definitely will be ignoring it.

Besides, we've been moving away from gaming for a number of years now, not towards it (with significant drops in purchasing year over year), so 4e is completely out of consideration.

 

[Arnwyn]

2. Will Pathfinder use 4e with their second Adventure Path and forward?

You mean their third. (Aug-Jan = first; Feb-Jul = second)

 

[~Johnny~]

Honestly, the feature that has me most excited is the virtual gaming table. If that's any good, I will be all over this new edition. All my RPG time in the past couple of hears has been spent playing via IRC or PBP. If this is a way to do that more easily, it would fulfill my wildest dreams.

...Of course, in the time since I posted this, Wizards.com has been down because it apparently couldn't handle the extra traffic generated by this news. I sure hope they get some extra/better servers between now and the release of their online gaming tables.

 

[Odhanan]

I don't know if I'd be switching. Sure, streamlining the rules, better organization, better ergonomy, full speed ahead for a better, smoother, more efficient gameplay, all this goes IMO in the right direction.

Now, will I switch? I don't know. I have loads of 3.X products I wanna use. Can I use them with 4E? Time will tell. Will the results of 4E live up to the hype? Time will tell. Can WotC actually produce some good, manageable, computer-savvy D.I. content? Time will tell, just as well.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

You mean their third. (Aug-Jan = first; Feb-Jul = second)

Yeah, I realised that, too, after I thought about it. The first two will have to be 3e, but the question is: Will Pathfinder 3 be 4e? If so, It becomes likely that I'll at least pick up the core rules.

If the D&D Insider part turns out to be worth its money, I will even subscribe. They'll really have to use the technology for that, though.

 

[arwink]

I'm about 85% likely to convert over. At this point I'm probably one of those gamers that WotC is actively trying to bring back with the selling points of 4e - I stopped running regular games because of the workload and the lack of excitement.