Whither OotS?

[The Eternal GM]

Despite my preferences, I think it'll swap to 4th Edition within the year.

Why the misgivings? Simply because 4th Edition seems to be without a lot of the cliche and game elements that makes D&D so odd at times. While it'll certainly have its own, I don't know them yet... So I hope OotS remains 3.5 for a while longer yet, and imagine it will.

 

[CleverNickName]

I think it would be funny to have one or two members of the cast change to 4E, while everyone else stays in the 3.5E universe. They could interact with each other, exploiting the flaws of both systems. Hilarity will ensue, from the moment someone needs healing...

 

[Festivus]

Current 3.5 storyline ends, begins again with all new characters (with the same names of course, but different classes), and rerun OOTS #0001, with jibes poking at 4E instead of 3.5.

 

[Fifth Element]

Imo it should stay 3.0 because in 4.0 the amount of metagaming which is one of the thinks which makes OotS funny is supposed to be the norm.
But having one 4E party in OotS so we can laugh about the huge abstraction in the 4E rules is fine by me.

Goodness gracious, can't we even have an OotS thread without the threadcrapping?

And the characters make OotS funny. The in-jokes are good, but the characters are gold.

I, for one, do hope it switches to 4E. The possibilities are endless.

 

[Fifth Element]

I think it would be funny to have one or two members of the cast change to 4E, while everyone else stays in the 3.5E universe. They could interact with each other, exploiting the flaws of both systems. Hilarity will ensue, from the moment someone needs healing...

I like this. It would certainly help the "no 4E bard yet" problem for Elan.

 

[Fifth Element]

Or perhaps they'll playtest 4E for awhile, but decide to return to 3.5?

 

[parvatiquinta]

Warlord. Oh sweet jeebus, let him be the party Warlord.

Oooh yeah, that would be so sweet!
But what about Nale then...

 

[mach1.9pants]

I can see vast comedic value to be gained from many of the (more) gamist parts of 4E. Don't get me wrong I intend to go 4E but the scenarios some the anti-4E crowd come up with to show how gamist/SoD breaking the new rules are are genius. Convoluted, deliberately obtuse and willfully contrary yes, but genius as well. Bring on the the per encounter comedy

 

[Larrin]

If it does switch, i doubt it will be immediately. 4e as a baby will have only a sparse population of what 3.5 had in terms of races/classes/monsters and rather than making awkward substitutions and patches to the system to figure out what to do with bards, half-orcs, etc, he's better off just waiting until he can paint with a full pallette. I can see him waiting for as much as a year or two before doing the switch, if only to give people time to learn the rules of the game. 3.5 rules jokes are funny because they're familiar to us and we've probably experienced it, 4e jokes will need time to get the level of familiarity to be even half as funny. How can he make a 'paragon path powers choice' joke when most of the readers have probably not even cracked into thoses much more than once or twice. Will he go 4e? Only if he likes what it does to the story, and only when it would be a benefit and not a sloppy cheap twist.

 

[Umbran]

I can see him waiting for as much as a year or two before doing the switch, if only to give people time to learn the rules of the game.

Also, to give himself time to learn the rules of the game. it is not easy to write comedy about something you don't know well. And I don't doubt that he draws on the internet public for some guidance on the quirks that are worth poking fun at - he needs time for places like this to build his target for him