What Angers Me Most About 4th Edition

[Jawsh]

I'm not in on it!

Seriously, these guys are telling us all about the fun they're having with the new rules, and I have to sit here and play with v.3.5 mechanics. I love v.3.5 mechanics, I wish I could go on using them forever, but it just eats at the back of my brain that most of the things I've trained myself to do, even memorized in some cases, with the v.3.5 ruleset will be obsolete within the year. Every time I use a rule or mechanic, I ask myself, "is this the last time I'll be using this?" I'd love to have the new edition in front of me so I could compare the old and the new, but right now all I have is the old, and painfully scarce details of the new.

 

[Turjan]

That's nothing. Just think of all the dust when all my 3.x books will disintegrate next May. I will need a wheelbarrow for that mess.

 

[katakraos]

and you will need a special broomstick to weep the dust, and the only dealers of it are WOTC

 

[Mortellan]

Their excitement reminds me of salesmen on an infomercial.

My 2nd edition books are conspicuously missing, I'm sure the same will happen to my 3E books. Only my 1E books have aesthetic value to me.

 

[Doc_Klueless]

Yah, all I've got left is my Basic Red Box I got waaay back in 1981 and my 1e AD&D books. I pull them out, look through them and sigh... while my girlfriend (actually, she's more woman than girl now) gently mocks me for being a geek.

:::sigh:::

 

[Nifft]

Their excitement reminds me of salesmen on an infomercial.

That's terribly sad.

Infomercials are attempts to emulate the excitement felt by real people working on things they actually find cool. I've worked on several such projects. Excitement can be genuine, too.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Gwathlas]

I'm not in on it!

Seriously, these guys are telling us all about the fun they're having with the new rules, and I have to sit here and play with v.3.5 mechanics. I love v.3.5 mechanics, I wish I could go on using them forever, but it just eats at the back of my brain that most of the things I've trained myself to do, even memorized in some cases, with the v.3.5 ruleset will be obsolete within the year. Every time I use a rule or mechanic, I ask myself, "is this the last time I'll be using this?" I'd love to have the new edition in front of me so I could compare the old and the new, but right now all I have is the old, and painfully scarce details of the new.

I don't like the new rules and won't be buying any wotc/hasbro products. I stopped buying their products in September as a matter of fact. My 3.5 books will continue to let me play D&D as long as I like. wotc can keep it's anime/starwars powers and all the unneeded changes they put in just to dumb the game down.

 

[psionotic]

wotc can keep it's anime/starwars powers and all the unneeded changes they put in just to dumb the game down.

If by 'dumb the game down' you mean 'make the gameplay far more strategic and tactical,' then yes.

 

[Wormwood]

edit: again...never mind.