D&D 4E When the time eventually comes, will you play a retro-clone of 4e?

[C4]

Why wait 'til 4e becomes retro? I'm compiling everything and fixing it up right now!

 

[MatthewJHanson]

It depends on what 5e is like. So far 4th is my favorite edition. If I like the next one better, I'll switch to that. Otherwise I'd be happy to play a clone.

 

[Incenjucar]

I'll play whichever edition of whichever game feels best to me.

I don't do nostalgia trips.

 

[delericho]

I would be extremely surprised if it was possible to do a 4e retro-clone - WotC deliberately moved away from the OGL for 4e, and the GSL will surely be going away as soon as 4e ends (if not before). I would also be extremely surprised if anyone in my group would want to run a retro-clone of 4e, since those who I'd think might be interested already have the books.

However, my policy with any retro-clone would be the same as with any other game: if a member of my group wants to run a game, I'll play anything. (Yes, up to and including FATAL, if someone is foolish enough to run it.)

I won't run a 4e retro-clone, just as I won't run 4e; it's just not my cup of tea. But I have no problems playing.

 

[Crazy Jerome]

I have learned not to make too many iron-clad predictions as to what I will and will not do concerning systems that aren't out yet. I was initially resistant to 4E, but finally tried it because of all the obviously contradictory things that were said about it prior to lauch--and found that I liked it. (As G.K. Chesterton said about a more serious subject, if something is hammered from all angles for being too round and too square, too oblong and yet too acute, it may very well be a strange thing. But it probably won't be what the critics said it was.)

I'm playing and enjoying 4E right now. When 5E rolls around I may jump on it like a cat on a jitterbuggiing squirrel. Or I may ignore it. Or I may have something else going on right then and get to it later. Who knows? It's not like my choices are limited to 4E and 5E, either.

In any case, I don't play enough for retro rules to matter all that much, for anything that I already own. If I live to be 200, I can't play a long campaign in everything that I already own and like. 5E will either be good enough to jump ahead of some of those--or it won't. 4E will continue to hold my interest well enough to say ahead of some of those--or it won't. Time will tell.

 

[Ourph]

When the time comes, I'll probably play 4e if I want to play 4e. I love what the retro-clones have done for the out-of-print D&D editions in terms of new adventures, but I'm not a big fan of using them as games in themselves.