Tigh finally Nukes 3e (review)

[Vorput]

This '3e' system is new to me. I'm glad someone finally got around to reviewing it.

Also, what's the difference between the white text and the gold text? Are you quoting something?

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

Why you should support Wizbro (Warning may contain: Flame bait)

Buy a big bulky glossy expensive 4e book. Don't crack the spine. Hell don't even open it. Give it to some younger enthusiast. Now I will tell you why.

Imagine you are a corporation, does the Open Gaming License improve communications with fans, and increase profits. Or, matching fears, does it turn and bite you. Wizbro is one of the few corporations with its "noodly appendage" in the same drawer as some Open Gaming License. We don't want to slam the drawer on them do we.

Not in my feelings. Resisting them to retain our own identity is understandable. And on that note I submit my review of D&D 3e. All these years later I finally get around to playing it.




So support Wizbro. They are training initiate level imagineers. People who can see it, but don't know they have permission to build one all their own yet.


Tigh

Are you being cynical? It's one thing if you're looking at 3E through the perspective of older editions, but to then go and tell people to buy 4E to support WotC, even though it's guilty of ALL the playstyle changes 3E was? Are you trying to critique the OGL? I don't know what you're doing because you can't even write coherent statements.

 

[Shemeska]

Huh wha?

 

[Kinneus]

Heh, this makes me chuckle. I wonder if ten years from now I'll be writing screeds against 5e? "Man, they screwed up with 5e! They just don't get it... 4e was about imagination!"

Anyway, thanks for sharing your opinion. One thing I take issue with (and this is not directed at the OP in particular) is the idea that 4e is a 'beginner's' game. I admit I'm probably on the younger side as far as D&D players go. Only 21, and not very familiar with 3e and only briefly flirted with 2e in elementary school. I don't consider myself an 'initiate level imaginer'. I've been 'imagining' for years, including lots of freeform RPGs (which are, by definition, nothing but imagination).

I like 4e (and 3e, even) because it's a good game with a good system that sparks my imagination. Not because I'm too dull to have an imagination of my own. Please drop the air of superiority; it's really not as charming as you might think.

 

[tenkar]

This was a Feeblemind spell being cast on us I assume, cause I'm more confused then ever

 

[Alzrius]

Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes once said that the purpose of academic writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity.

Here's to the OP for proving that correct.

 

[Oni]

I kind of expected more funny...

You know like...I would rather be ritually circumcised with a pack of rabid dire weasels than play 3e or I decided to have myself sterilized rather than bring children into a world in which 3e passes for entertainment.

Well like that, but funnier and written by a better writer than myself.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Ah.

I get it.

Your hat of d02 know no limit.

Wait....maybe?

 

[AngryMojo]

I'm really trying to understand exactly what is being said here.

 

[Piratecat]

I'm really trying to understand exactly what is being said here.

I'm honestly not quite sure. It's an edition war thread... maybe? It's not a bot (Tigh is active on other D&D boards, with a similar writing style but no asshatitude that I noticed), but it also doesn't make any sense.

As so, I'm going to swing it shut, mostly because I can't figure out if it should be open.

Tigh, shoot me an email at kevin dot kulp at gmail dot com. I'd be interested to understand.

Klunk.