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

[CanadienneBacon]

I'm a skimmer, myself. But since I am dead broke, I will be doing my skimming in a bookstore and probably during a very hurried two to three minutes before I put the PHB back on the shelf.

I'm okay with that.

 

[Deadguy]

I always play the game, as-is, before thinking about making a single change or addition, because playing the game teaches you more about how it actually works than just reading it on a page.

Yes, I am going to learn that lesson from the arrival of Third Edition. Then, I immediately wrote scores of pages of modified classes, monsters and setting-specific magic rules. Most of which has languished on file ever since, as a relic of initial enthusiastic mis-dabbling.

This time I am going to try and run a simple, by the book game for a couple of weeks and see how the mechanics play out.

The first step therefore will be getting an overview and then turning to page 1 to learn the rules.

 

[Thanee]

I havn't fully read even a single of my RPG books... skim it and then put it in the shelf to stay there until needed.

Bye
Thanee

 

[drothgery]

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.

I've told my boss for years that I'd be taking the week off when the US Open was played at the golf course across the street from my office in 2008 (or at least Thursday and Friday) because the traffic gets bad enough for the regular PGA event there that I have no intention of trying to get through it for a major. By happy coincidence, that's the week after 4e launches.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

As long as my response isn't anything like this I'll be good.

I suppose, technically, that's more likely to be the DI response...

 

[simply not edible]

I'll probably be leafing through all three books simultaneously and erratically, reading the smaller chapters first, checking out artwork, and checking out a couple of classes and stuff.

I'll end up having read it all, but in an order that would make no sense whatsoever.

 

[GishBandit]

Howdy folks, I'll read through the classes, then the races, then the combat chapter of the book and last, I'll read the spells. This of course after I've skimmed through it.

I figure the classes is the most important part of the book then the races. The Combat chapter and the spells are must reads for how to run a character in the campaign. As for the rest of the book, I'll like I said, skim through it.

 

[Mercule]

Skim it for an overview.

Then go back and cherry pick a couple of changes (probably one race, one or two classes, and a couple spells/powers).

Then read front to back.