Who will take a vacation from these boards?

[Dice4Hire]

Based in part onthe how will you read the 4E books thread.

Note: I am not trying to be in any way insulting.

I know that once I get the books in my hand, and until I get a feel for the game and how it plays, I will be taking a break from Enworld. For a week, or a couple weeks, or even for a month or so.

Why?

Spoilers, commentary, and the like.

I do not mean this in a bad way, not at all, but I want to experience 4e for myself. Read the rules, absorb them and think about them without outside interference.

Too many times I see people join online video games after reading all the advice and walkthroughs, the expert commentary and the been-there-done-that crowd. And I think they lose a big part of the game. The newness, the discovery, and frankly, the trial and eror.

Too many people are interested in instant, and effortless experience.

But not for me, I plan to do it the slow way. Anyone else?

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

The only reason I will be taking a vacation from EN World is because I'm starting a new job the week 4e comes out. Knowing my lack of control when it comes to surfing this site and the intensity of this new job, for the sake of my career I'm going to stay out of this place during the workday.

Once my books come in, during the evening after I get the kids to bed, I will probably be reading about 4e rather than surfing to this site to talk about it.

 

[Greatwyrm]

All the 4e excitement is what brought me back.

 

[smootrk]

Since the particular forums that I used to frequent just disappeared recently (or was folded into some other area), and I have no particular interest in 4e (without malice - just no interest)... I will likely find myself here much less.... and I have no real interest in looking at that awful bright white ad squashing the forum structure.

Hopefully when dust settles and things sort themselves out I can return with renewed enthusiasm... otherwise, I will just be a sporadic lurker for a while.

 

[ShinHakkaider]

I'll be taking a vacation from ENworld once 4E is released because this will pretty much become a 4E board and thus not be a place for me.

I'll probably move permanently to the Paizo boards. I'll miss this place a little bit though and it's going to hard not to check this place out since I've been doing it every day for the past 8 - 9 years.

 

[Delta]

My time on ENWorld has radically dropped off in the last few months, because of the shift to 4E. I still have a habit of checking it once a day, but then I realize that there's nothing that I'm interacting with anymore. So yeah, I think if the focus is on the radically redesigned 4E game, it's really not the place for me anymore.

 

[Styracosaurus]

Being a fan of both 3e and 4e (so far), I'll keep on coming back. I mostly lurk, but it is a great place for fans of any D&D edition. This is still the best place to read up on gaming advice, rules, etc.....

 

[Crothian]

I found it is easiest to just not read the threads I don't want to read.

 

[Kzach]

Meh, only reason I post these days is 'cause I've got nothing better to do.

Soon as I get full-time work again, I'll go back to lurking like I have for the last eight years.

4e, 3e, doesn't matter and has no influence on this.

 

[lutecius]

And I think they lose a big part of the game. The newness, the discovery, and frankly, the trial and eror.

Too many people are interested in instant, and effortless experience.

But not for me, I plan to do it the slow way. Anyone else?

Wanting to make your own opinion without being influenced by other's positive or negative comments, or to have your own experience without being told what the one true style of play is... I can see.

But you lost me at the "trial/error/effort/slow is good" part. Trying to figure how something works or being annoyed by a rule I think is broken and then realize I've been getting it wrong for weeks is definitely not what I enjoy or look for in a game. I just don't have the time or any interest for that. So if a forum can help me skip this part that's great.