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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 3910100" data-attributes="member: 19675">I'll probably buy the Core 3 and then make my decision as to whether I'll continue to purchase anything else based on my answers to the following questions:1) Is it priced properly?If the game is too expensive, I'll be the only one buying any of the books.While I am sort of a game librarian and even buy duplicates of books that see heavy use, that is by choice- I'd be miffed if it were by neccessity.2) Is it needlessly complex or oversimplified?If I look at the mechanics and see areas where I or my fellow co-DMs will be HR-ing again and again, it won't be worth my trouble.Ditto if a game group with dozens of collegiate and post-graduate degrees can't come to concensus on how a section of the rules is supposed to operate.3) Does it let me design the PCs I (and my fellow gamers) imagine?The game has steadily progressed towards increased flexibility of PC design, something of which I wholeheartedly approve.&nbsp; If there is a ChaGen retrograde, I'll stick with 3.X or HERO.4) Is is still recognizably D&amp;D?There are lots of FRPGs out there- and I own lots of them- and if 4Ed isn't somehow distinguishable from the others (mechanics and fluff), then there isn't a point to playing the game.Similarly, some of the fluff that I've seen really doesn't appeal to me as part of the game's Core.&nbsp; I'd be fine with some of what I've seen getting released as supplemental material, but I forsee much &quot;blacklining&quot; of 4Ed material in the hands of DMs in my game group.5) Is it fun?I think that speaks for itself.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 3910100, member: 19675"] I'll probably buy the Core 3 and then make my decision as to whether I'll continue to purchase anything else based on my answers to the following questions: [B]1) Is it priced properly?[/B] If the game is too expensive, I'll be the only one buying any of the books. While I am sort of a game librarian and even buy duplicates of books that see heavy use, that is by choice- I'd be miffed if it were by neccessity. [B]2) Is it needlessly complex or oversimplified?[/B] If I look at the mechanics and see areas where I or my fellow co-DMs will be HR-ing again and again, it won't be worth my trouble. Ditto if a game group with dozens of collegiate and post-graduate degrees can't come to concensus on how a section of the rules is supposed to operate. [B]3) Does it let me design the PCs I (and my fellow gamers) imagine?[/B] The game has steadily progressed towards increased flexibility of PC design, something of which I wholeheartedly approve. If there is a ChaGen retrograde, I'll stick with 3.X or HERO. [B]4) Is is still recognizably D&D?[/B] There are lots of FRPGs out there- and I own lots of them- and if 4Ed isn't somehow distinguishable from the others (mechanics and fluff), then there isn't a point to playing the game. Similarly, some of the fluff that I've seen really doesn't appeal to me as part of the game's [I]Core.[/I] I'd be fine with some of what I've seen getting released as supplemental material, but I forsee much "blacklining" of 4Ed material in the hands of DMs in my game group. [B]5) Is it fun?[/B] I think that speaks for itself. [/QUOTE]

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