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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 3895306" data-attributes="member: 2205">I would actually prefer to see few (if any) of those products updated to 4e, William Ronald.&nbsp; Most of them are not D&amp;D per se, but are variant systems built around the d20 engine.&nbsp; Updating them accomplishes... what exactly?&nbsp; The system already isn't D&amp;D, so there's no need.&nbsp; Arcana Unearthed in particular doesn't need another update.&nbsp; In fact, it didn't need the one it got.&nbsp; I'm still ticked off that I ran off and bought Arcana Unearthed only to have Arcana Evolved supercede it in short order.&nbsp; WTF?&nbsp; No thanks.&nbsp; The system worked just fine as it was, and the updates aren't based on any percieved need of the system to be improved, but rather on a percieved need to make updates because 3e was moving to 3.5.&nbsp; Doing this again for 4e, unless there's some significant improvement and update to the system, is a waste of effort.&nbsp; Hamunaptra and Testament are in the same boat.Freeport, which you mention, is at least a D&amp;D setting.&nbsp; However, since the latest Freeport product is systemless, it's essentially already updated to 4e as it is.&nbsp; I guess there's still an issue around what the d20 support book will look like (based on the 3.5 SRD, or the 4e one, or two books; one for each, etc.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 3895306, member: 2205"] I would actually prefer to see few (if any) of those products updated to 4e, William Ronald. Most of them are [i]not[/i] D&D per se, but are variant systems built around the d20 engine. Updating them accomplishes... what exactly? The system already isn't D&D, so there's no need. [i]Arcana Unearthed[/i] in particular doesn't need another update. In fact, it didn't need the one it got. I'm still ticked off that I ran off and bought [i]Arcana Unearthed[/i] only to have [i]Arcana Evolved[/i] supercede it in short order. WTF? No thanks. The system worked just fine as it was, and the updates aren't based on any percieved need of the system to be improved, but rather on a percieved need to make updates because 3e was moving to 3.5. Doing this again for 4e, unless there's some significant improvement and update to the system, is a waste of effort. Hamunaptra and Testament are in the same boat. Freeport, which you mention, is at least a D&D setting. However, since the latest Freeport product is systemless, it's essentially already updated to 4e as it is. I guess there's still an issue around what the d20 support book will look like (based on the 3.5 SRD, or the 4e one, or two books; one for each, etc.) [/QUOTE]

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