What's your game plan?

[Flynn]

I'm going to playtest it before making a decision. After the current campaign ends in a year or three, it'll either be Savage Worlds or 4E, and I won't know which until I get the chance to play a little 4E first.

With Regards,
Flynn

 

[xnosipjpqmhd]

I voted pie.

I and my group are as likely to play 4e as we are to play anything else. No system/edition has an exclusive lock on our time.

That said, I don't plan to rush right out and buy any books as soon as they are released.

 

[Gundark]

Interesting...IMHO we all should be voting for option 1. As my sig suggests, we really don't know anything yet, something we think we hate (or like) could be quiet different once we play it.

I'll buy the books. I'll try out the game. I've been encouraged with a lot of the developers comments, not to mention the comments from some of the playtesters. I want a game that is easy to run, easy to DM, but is complex for the players.

One thing though I'll never play 3e again.

 

[Aus_Snow]

'I have already decided not to switch'. . . yep, that'd be me.

There are already enough aspects that I dislike sufficiently for me to have decided that. And so, I have.

I am not a 'hater', and - in all honesty - if 4e had looked more like something I was after, I probably would've pounced on it, or at least contemplated doing so. I certainly don't have an aversion to picking up new games, or even revisions on occasion, and I do have the money to spare.

But yeah, 4e has turned me off already, so as a DM I will not be buying, let alone running it. Simple as that.

 

[Grimstaff]

"Pie" has a really great showing! They are close to outnumbering the "won't try 4E"'ers...

I wonder how "bread pudding" would have done?

 

[Roadkill101]

Mmmm, pie! I like pie, so that's my answer.

I was using my own personal system before WOTC acquired TSR. I tried 3.x briefly after it's initial release and went back to my system.

I'm pretty much the GM within my group and I've stuck to my system, though when someone else in the group want's to GM, it's been 3.x.

I'll buy the initial 3 core books and maybe H1 for 4e and give it a whirl. If it's a significant improvement over other editions of D&D, and providing I like it enough, I may run a second campaign using 4e instead of my system. One of the other members of the group plans on trying out 4e when it's released for their next campaign.

 

[Incenjucar]

Due to obnoxious circumstances of location, culture, and the need to focus on education, I pretty much missed out on 3E, outside of a single adventure I ran online (though I bought my share of books, eh heh...). 4E comes out now that I'm better set up to play online, and just before I'm planning to move to an area rich in appropriate culture (hopefully Seattle itself), so it's perfect for me to jump back into gaming with.

The design style also works extremely well with my fantasy preferences (though 3.5E touched on a major part of them with Incarnium), where warriors can take down wizards one-on-one without a single magic item, and spell casting is much more personal than whatever spellbooks you've dug up.

4E just clicks with me on so many levels. I have a few things I may houserule, but I love the overall design philosophy. May help that I have no loyalty to the old school styles of wading into dungeons with hobbits.

 

[Knightfall]

I'm in a somewhat similar situation where my Namea (my current homebrew) will remain an Iron Hero game. Too much work put into it to change over and 4e is still too "high magic" for it anyway.

However, I've pretty much talked myself into updating my Greyhawk-Planescape game to 4e so I'm sure I'll give that a whirl at some point...

If I do become interested in 4e, then I'll likely continue the creation of a new campaign world for it. Right now, I only have the campaign's name and a map.

The world's name is going to be Tarras, and the map is a generic continent map that was posted here on EN World by someone. (I can't remember who.)

Until I gain some "real" interest in 4e Tarras will remain just and idea.

 

[Steely Dan]

I plan on buying it as it looks like it's shaping up to be a good edition of the game, but I kind of have to buy it as a D&Der of over 20 years, I can't exactly not own at least the PHB, MM, and DMG from any edition of the game, if nothing else for reference – 'See, this was a particularly crappy edition of the game…' etc.

…And £90, give or take, is nothing for something that can provide countless hours of entertainment. Hell, it costs about £50 to walk down the street where I live.

 

[SSquirrel]

I never bought 3.5 so haven't bought a core book since 3E came out Compared to 3 and 3.5 I'm switching. I don't know if I will want to play it more than say, AE merged w/Ptolus, but I would have to run that and I prefer to play heh