The end of all edition wars?

[Aus_Snow]

IMO the best way is the Dragonsfoot way

TOETSNBN?

 

[rounser]

TOETSNBN?

TATSNBN. As in yuan-ti.

 

[jbear]

There just doesn't seem any point in doing that though - because any discussion about '4e' which isn't about the rules is general enough that it can be useful and interesting to anyone!

e.g. "I'm planning my adventure with the evil duke sisters twin brother having eloped with a succubus but I'm not sure whether I want the baron to know or to be ignorant - and whether the PCs should be hirelings or not. What do you think?"

or

"You won't believe what happened in the adventure last night... < describes it >"

Cheers

I didn't mean to imply that some of the threads in the General RPG discussion related to 4e couldn't be of interest to everybody in general.

My comment was more about the wisdom of giving people their own space to say:
'4e 6 months down the track: What are your impressions' and not have people come on spouting about whether 3e or 4e is the better edition and why.

Nothing more.

 

[jdrakeh]

I do hope you can carry on playing, whatever the system or edition, and enjoy it with your group. I think it would be tragic for you to lose your love of RPG's entirely. I truly hope that doesn't happen.

Thanks. Fortunately, I don't think that's a danger. Although I am taking a more active interest in other hobbies (such as wargaming) at the current time, it's more of a reprieve than a departure (I just bought some more RM books today, in fact).

I'm not saying I understand completely, but that's through no fault of yours. Talking on the internet like this, with other gamers, is actually a rather new thing for me. Until the last year or so, the only people I'd "talk" to about RPG's are the people I game with. Forums are just RPG dessert for me. But, as with anything, mileage and preferences vary.

No problem. I got a bit carried away up the thread. I'm also going through some personal stuff right now that I think has made more irritable than normal (the edition wars thing has bugged me for a long while, and I think this just brought it to a head).

I hope you don't stop coming around here entirely. I like reading your posts. Keep gaming, and I'll hope to see you around here (or over at CM).

Again, thanks. And peace to you, as well.

 

[jdrakeh]

Would appreciate a quick tip on where to find my 'add to ignore' list.

It's under the "My Account" link at the top of the page when you're logged in. When you open that page, the Edit Ignore List feature is on the left-hand side.

 

[Keefe the Thief]

I know, I know. I feel the cruel daggers of shame much in the way Augustus felt them on the floor of the Senate.

WP

You mean Caesar. Augustus died in bed.

And "the best way is the Dragonsfoot way?" What does that mean? Make fun of some newer editions and then have a 40 page flamewar about demihuman level limits?

 

[diaglo]

You mean Caesar. Augustus died in bed.

And "the best way is the Dragonsfoot way?" What does that mean? Make fun of some newer editions and then have a 40 page flamewar about demihuman level limits?

nah, there used to be a forum where you could poke MerricB in the eye.

 

[BryonD]

Probably because when 3e was coming down the pipe, there were quite a lot less of us online talking about the game, there was no central web site for talking about D&D like En World or the WOTC boards to hold on to either. When you've already got a D&D site of tens of thousands of gamers, it's pretty hard to start up a completely new site and try to draw the userbase away.

In other words, the landscape of D&D fansites is pretty much entirely different now than it was ten years ago when 3e started coming into the picture.

So when everyone says the current events of the 3e to 4e transition are exactly the same as the 2e to 3e transition, they are failing to take into account the vastly critical difference of a "pretty much entirely different" landscape now?

That said, I think you are completely wrong. If there was a real demand, creating the site and growing support would be a snap. It would pretty much happen by accident because lots of someones WOULD start little 4e-exclusive websites and the adoring community would start to gravitate to one and things would snowball from there.

The problem isn't one of moving userbase from one site to another. The problem is moving the userbase from one gaming system to another.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

You mean Caesar. Augustus died in bed.

Humor fail.

 

[Gentlegamer]

That's Brutal.