D&D 4E What will you do first with the 4E PHB?

[mhacdebhandia]

I shall skim through the book to get a feel for the system, and the art, and the implied setting.

 

[Beckett]

Smell it. Seriously. I love the smell of new books. The DMG and MM will be arriving in the same box, so I'll probably open those up and take a sniff, just so I can be sure no one else gets the first scent.

After that, I'll probably flip through to see the pretty pictures, then start reading from page one... until I start jumping ahead to read some of the classes, and feats, and equipment.

 

[Irda Ranger]

 

[Cmarco]

More than likely, I will start at page 1, read through (cover-to-cover) and sigh contently.

 

[HeinorNY]

Something else: I'll come to the newly created 3E Forums and start a thread named "How did I play this crap for 8 years?"

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

I will attempt to convince a bunch of overworked biologists living in tents on an island that they want to spend their precious daylight hours playing Dungeons and Dragons instead of getting anything useful done.

 

[architect.zero]

something else

I always, always, always look for a character sheet, if one is in the book. A well made sheet usually reveals, to me, a lot about the game. Then I start with page 1.

 

[Intrope]

Spend a solid week at home poring over it, the DMG and MM. No, seriously -- I took the week it's released as a vacation week at work.

You too?

 

[Rechan]

Immediately go to the classes. Do not pass go, do not collect $200.

I shall then sacrifice a lamb to the dice gods and Mike Mearls.

Finally I will cry, once I realize I'll be starting Grad school soon and likely have no time to run a 4e campaign.

 

[Henry]

I'll do what I always do for a new edition: I'll sniff it. The smell of a fresh printed book is a unique smell, one that ties me to the fact that it's a brand-new edition. Weird as it sounds, every one of my PHBs has a different smell to me, but for the most part it's the scent of where I played the most under those editions. My 1E PHB pages smell like the house I grew up in; the 2E PHB smells like cigarette smoke, since so many of my college friends used to smoke while playing, and the 3E book doesn't really have much of a smell to me -- maybe because I still frequent the places I've played that edition at.