Some interesting news about 4th edition

[Rasyr]

My FLGS owner, who is a close friend of mine, was told by a source at WotC that 4th edition will be integrated with Magic: the Gathering. He was vague on *how* this would be done, as 4th edition is still very much in the preliminary stages. But the terms "feat cards", "spell cards" and "power boost cards" (?) were used.

Hmm...

You might want to check back with him and verify that his source actually said "integrated with M:TG" as opposed to the source saying that "it will use cards like M:tG". There is a world of distance between the two.

Back when I was in Kindergarten, our teacher had us try a little experiment. The whole class stood in line, and she whispered something to the person who was last, and they passed the comment forward (whispering from person to person). What the kid at the front of the line heard was vastly different from what the first kid had heard.

Thus, when you hear something from somebody who has heard it from somebody else, it is always good to take it with a grain of salt and to realize that things may have been garbled in the retelling.....

As to the use of cards itself. Personally, I have no idea whether it is true or not or even a possibility, but I do know that the RPGA recently (within the last couple of years) tried something along these lines (not exactly the same thing as you are saying, but similar), though I don't what the final results of that was, or if it is still continuing.

In any case, time will tell....

 

[Alzrius]

But still, the idea is a good one.

The reason the idea is a ridiculous one is that it introduces the idea of randomization into a game that is not a CCG. Nobody wants to have to buy booster packs just to be able to find the correct feat for your character.

 

[Herremann the Wise]

Hmmm...
I don't believe this for a minute - checks date [it's the first of November, not April].

However, A magic "block" based upon D&D (possibly Greyhawk or even Eberron) would be a lot of fun - I played magic back in the day. It would be some cool advertising for D&D, that's for sure.

I think it would be more a case of D&D hitching a ride upon the MtG juggernaut more so than the other way around.

Best Regards
Herremann the Wise

 

[twofalls]

Um... yeah.

When I was a kid I had very little cash and so I painstakingly built a large collection of AD&D books and supplements over many years and treasured it all.

Now I'm in my 30's and over a four year span have built a HUGE library of books and supplements that I wont be able to exhaust in 60 years of gaming, and I like it okay.

Now, WoTC could unite 4th ed with Mr. Magoo cartoons and Barney Dolls and I'm not sure I would care less. Wasn't D&D made into a card game once already? Wasn't it called Spellfire? Didn't it die a quiet death?

 

[Rasyr]

Nope. It's a complete troll. Integrating D&D with M:tG is such a cosmically stupid thing to do that this can be nothing else.

Just because you think it is a stupid idea, does not mean somebody else disagrees with you...

 

[SWBaxter]

Nope. It's a complete troll. Integrating D&D with M:tG is such a cosmically stupid thing to do that this can be nothing else.

While I have no opinion on the veracity of the OP's rumour, integrating D&D with M:tG doesn't seem cosmically stupid to me. Quite the opposite - I was frankly amazed it didn't happen with 3.0. Lots of RPGs have associated CCGs, after all, I'm sure WOTC could put together a package that'd appeal to many gamers. Not to me in particular, of course, but such is marketing.

 

[Rasyr]

this just smells funny.

and dumb.

and i dont believe it for a second.

there is no way theyll make an RPG "collectible" unless they want to lose a large segment of thier buyers.

There is a story floating around that there was once an employee at WotC who said the same thing about a miniatures game, to some Hasbro exec. However, that was before WhizKids came out with their clix games.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

this just smells funny.

and dumb.

and i dont believe it for a second.

there is no way theyll make an RPG "collectible" unless they want to lose a large segment of thier buyers.

Psssst... White Wolf tried collectible cards for the magic system in the first edition of Changeling: the Dreaming... it sank like a rock.

The Auld Grump - who thinks the FLGS owner was talking out of his a... er, I mean hat, yes, definitely hat.

 

[Crothian]

When news like this is posted by a guy named Cowpie Zombie; it has to be true!!

 

[Aaron L]

There is a story floating around that there was once an employee at WotC who said the same thing about a miniatures game, to some Hasbro exec. However, that was before WhizKids came out with their clix games.

Mechwarrior: Dark Ages lost a large segment of the Battletech audience (Including me). And Battletech wasnt a roleplaying game. If I need to buy booster packs to find what iI need for my RPG character, I will not play that RPG.

Collectibility is great for companies; its horrible for people who actually want to play the game and dont have the money to throw it away trying to get what they want.