What's your game plan?

[kennew142]

My FR Sembia game 3e will be ending around the time when the new edition comes out. I will be replacing it with a 4e game at that time (homebrew this time).

My brother-in-law will be finishing his 3e Sword Coast game in two weeks. He'll be running a 3e (plus as many 4e rules we can work into it) Expedition to Castle Ravenloft to tide us over until the 4e release. Once this campaign comes to a conclusion, he will begin working on a 4e Waterdeep campaign. It will have to wait at least until the FR campaign book comes out.

My friend's Shackled City campaign will end after four more scenarios. He will replace it with a 4e PoL campaign (homebrew) based loosely on Keep on the Borderlands.

My brother-in-law's Age of Worms campaign will be ending in two more scenarios. Once the new edition comes out he will be replacing it with a campaign in which we all play performers in a carnival traveling a circuit in the world of Golarion.

I will begin a 4e campaign for my children and a few others shortly after the new edition comes out as well.

We play on both Friday and Saturday. Our group of 9 players have already placed orders for the new books. We want to convert asap. We've been dissatisfied with 3e for some time.

 

[Belorin]

Duplicate post

 

[Belorin]

Our FR campaign will end just about the time the new FR CS comes out, but I will be playtesting 4E bbefore then, I'll put together a PoL home brew to play while I decide whether or not to switch to 4E FR.
Plus we Have an Arduin Eternal campaign a friend is DMing when that comes out.

Bel

 

[TheAuldGrump]

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

That last is about the only reason I can think of that would make me buy 4.0. I have too much invested in 3.X to start another edition.

The Auld Grump

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

Not going to 4e. The fluff, the design philosophy, many of the bits I've seen so far just aren't to my taste. I liked 3e, even many of the things being singled out as "game-breaking," "unfun," or "disruptive" I liked.

That said I'll probably buy at least some of the books if I see mechanical ideas that appear swipeable. If they have really good art I may buy some of them just for the art, I've done that before with a few Palladium books even though I don't use the system. As it is I'm taking all my HR'ed stuff and compiling it into a TiddlyWiki SRD. As of now I'm filling in the races and classes.

 

[jdrakeh]

I have finally come down on the 'will not switch' side of the fence. At least for the time being. I also won't be sticking with D&D 3x. If the new edition fallout is anything like it was in 2000, I think that there will be a real window of opportunity insofar as finding players for games other than D&D is concerned. As I did in 2000, I'll be using this period of fallout to take advantage of people wanting to try different games -- I'll be playing HarnMaster, Tunnels & Trolls, Daredevils, The Dark Eye, and other games that I normally wouldn't be able to get players for. I'll probably pick up D&D three or four years down the road, when the hobby settles into another 'nothing but D&D' rut.

 

[Jan van Leyden]

Pie-like switching policy, of course!


One of my campaigns ended in TPK two weeks ago. Now another player takes over for a single adventure, after which I'll start a Ptouls-based campaign. As this will happen in May or June we'll play this game in 3.5 for maybe 4 or 5 levels. Afterwards I'll decide wether I want to convert the Ptolus-stuff and, if so, whether we convert the characters or start anew.

The second group returned to me after a LotR excourse with the expressed wish to play a game in the 7-10 level range. I run them through unconnected adventures, not making this a full-blown campaign. This group will switch with new characters to 4e in summer.

In May I'll start a new, separate group running the 4e playtest adventure. There's a good possibility that this group will keep playing - 4e of course - after this endeavour.

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Huldvoll

Jan van Leyden

 

[Lanefan]

If they have really good art I may buy some of them just for the art, ...

If the art in Worlds and Monsters is anything to go by, prepare to do some buyin'.

Lanefan

 

[pukunui]

If the art in Worlds and Monsters is anything to go by, prepare to do some buyin'.

Lanefan

The art in both preview books is certainly an improvement on much of the 3.5 catalog ... but nevertheless, I think I still prefer non-computer-generated art. Hopefully not everything in the 4e books will be CGI. I don't think WAR's stuff is computer-generated, so we'll have to wait and see ...

 

[delericho]

No, I'm out.

I really wanted to like 4e. I was ready for a new edition, and I am well aware of many of the flaws with 3e (it's a nightmare to prep for if you go off the beaten track, high level play becomes tedious rather than fun, there are just a few too many 'proud nails', and there are several cases where small but fundamental changes to the rules would make for a vastly better game experience). And, initially, it looked like the 4e designers has identified the problems I saw as being the biggest issues in the game, and were working towards fixing that.

Unfortunately, what we've heard has left me gradually more and more disappointed. .

The breaking point came with this "diagonals are 1 square" thing. That's not the only issue, but it's the one that takes my definate house rules to a longer list than I ever used in 3e. With the game not even being released yet, it's just too much.

That said...

Early on in the process there was an issue raised that was and is an absolute deal-breaker for me. I said way back then that if WotC reversed that decision then I would buy the three core rulebooks, no questions asked. I stick with that - if the issue in question is removed then I will buy the core rulebooks.

Otherwise, though, I'm now working from the assumption that this game is just not for me.