The Book of Experimental Might: Now in Print!

[Turanil]

Would you be interested in such a product for 3.x?

No I would not.

 

[Driddle]

pass.
the impending release of 4th ed screws up everything.

 

[Odhanan]

The interesting thing about it too is that, whether someone's switching to 4E or not, chances are the ideas in there will still be usable to fashion all sorts of houserules. It's not only a 20-levels variant, it also has a lot of stuff about wizards being able to do cool things every turn, a variant on clerics and healing, et cetera.

I think the main value in this is the "pick and choose", toolbox aspect such a product would present to 3E, 4E players and those who intend to build hybrids (Raven Crowking, I'm looking at you) alike. After all, 4E is still d20, is it not?

You can get more tidbits about the system on this thread, by the way.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

After all, 4E is still d20, is it not?

Oh, they'll make sure that 3e and 4e will not work well together. Otherwise you might do something bad like keep using old stuff and not get new stuff. They even change the look of monsters to sell their miniatures all over again.

 

[Raevhen]

I am interested in it because I am not 100% sold on 4e, so even though I will buy 4e, if it sucks I can fall back to this.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

pass.
the impending release of 4th ed screws up everything.

Only if you feel compelled to use the most recent edition of the rules whether they're good or not.

 

[SSquirrel]

A lot of people have problems investing further in 3E stuff when they know their group will want to try out the new rules upon release. If they try the new rules and people like them, that 3E purchase may have ended up "wasted".

Myself, I would pick it up just to see what Monte is thinking. I just took advantage of the 1.99 sale and bought all 4 of the Elements of Magic series as I've heard good reviews about them for way too long to pass up at that price.

 

[Uder]

A new spell system by the guy who turned D&D into a spreadsheet? Where don't I sign up?

 

[SSquirrel]

How did Monte turn D&D into a spreadsheet? Monte wasn't the entire design team ya know I actually liked that they made all the math behind the game much more clear, let you pull things apart and put them back together in different ways that you knew would still balance out correctly.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Spreadsheet's good. The mechanics should not seem like actual magic, with arcane formulas no one normal has been working with for millenia. Unless we get to sacrifice small animals to get our spells back, I'd like rules that are easy and make sens, only being used to describe arcane workings, not resemble them.