What's your game plan?

[Grimstaff]

When it comes to switching to 4E? For me and my group, I am going to run H1 for them in early June. If we like it, we switch, if we hate it, we don't. Anyone else planning on doing this?

 

[ZombieRoboNinja]

Honestly, I've been out of the hobby for long enough that I'd have to buy all new books just to play a 3.5 game (don't even have a copy of the PHB, just used the SRD). And if I wanted to play a 3.5 character that didn't either suck or force me to memorize a hundred pages of spells, I'd need MORE sourcebooks, and I'd need to wheedle a DM into letting me play a warblade or whatever.

So I voted "already decided on 4e." Time for a fresh start.

 

[Captain Tagon]

I've got the core books pre-ordered, but will have to read through them before I decide to switch to it full time over Savage Worlds or Burning Wheel for a default fantasy system.

 

[Lackhand]

I didn't buy into 3.5, so I figure it's about time for me to buy core books again.

It doesn't hurt that a friend has offered to DM

 

[Rechan]

By coincidence, my current campaign will be stopping around June because I am (Hopefully) moving away for school. Converting doesn't become a problem.

Since I know I want to pick up 4e, the new threat becomes "Finding a new group who will play it".

 

[pukunui]

I game with a bunch of guys in their 30s and 40s. Some, like me, played 2e, but a few of them played 1e as well (and they've still got their books to prove it). All of us are relatively inexperienced with the 3.5 ruleset and none of us are particularly enamored of it. There are a number of problems we have with it, but the only one I'll mention here is the one I have the biggest issue with: the amount of math required to adequately prepare for a session. I'd much rather be spending my prep time as DM doing creative stuff and using my imagination to come up with interesting plot hooks, memorable NPC personalities, and so on. Instead, I spend the vast majority of my time doing math - both in developing NPCs and monsters and the like and in "double-checking" the PCs' stats to make sure the math is all correct there too. I don't find it fun at all but I'm much happier as a DM than as a player, so I put up with it.

4e feels like it's been designed with me in mind. The designers appear to be addressing every single issue I have with 3.5, and they're fixing those issues in ways that make me happy. 4e definitely has "this is for you" written all over it.

What I find amusing is that it seems like most of the 4e-haters are older gamers (forgive me if I'm wrong, but that's the impression I get) ... yet my group is composed entirely of older gamers who are virtually chomping at the bit to start playing 4e.

So yeah, I'm definitely in the "already switching" camp. I've preordered the now-discounted core book gift set as well as H1 and H2 (there's no need to jump the gun and preorder absolutely everything, but I'll probably get the FRCG [more to plunder for ideas and mechanics than for anything else], H3, P1, DM Screen, Tome of Treasures, and Martial Power ...)

 

[Hunter In Darkness]

not going to 4e ity may be a fine game just doest look like my d&d so far.

yay me i was the frist not going vote ....kinda makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside

 

[HeinorNY]

IGI.

 

[MaelStorm]

Honestly, I've been out of the hobby for long enough that I'd have to buy all new books just to play a 3.5 game.

So I voted "already decided on 4e." Time for a fresh start.

Same for me. So, 4E all the way!

I will buy all the books. The hardest part will be to find a group to start to play or DM.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I'll read & playtest before making my decision.