mattcolville
Adventurer
I have seen the final product. I've seen 4E and I love it. What, exactly, would be the point of switching?
D&D 4E Whose staying with 4e?
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I have seen the final product. I've seen 4E and I love it. What, exactly, would be the point of switching?
the Jester
Legend
You haven't seen the final product for 5e, though.
The point of switching would be if it wows you enough to win you over. It's too early to judge that. We're still far away from release.
Nemesis Destiny
Adventurer
While I will say that I can't pass final judgment on the game as it stands, I have seen the playtest and what I can say, is that if it continues as-is, it isn't shaping up to support the kind of games I want to run. It might wow me enough, but that will require a great many changes and components that are as yet not revealed, not to mention a sincere change of heart in their attitude toward 4e-isms.
If you want a game that has process-first mechanics, flavour and feel of older editions, or just plain don't care, then I'm sure it will be fine. If, on the other hand, you want a game that lends itself to light narrativist play with explicit metagame mechanics baked in, then Next is probably not for you, though there IS a game that does all that.
If I had skipped 4e and gone on to other games, as was my intent back in the dying days of 3.x, seeing this newfangled 5e D&D might have piqued my interest enough to bring me back into the fold, at least as far as wanting to play a D&D-ish game goes.
mattcolville
Adventurer
I guess I'm curious about the idea that somehow 5E's awesomeness might somehow make me like 4E less.
Scrivener of Doom
Adventurer
the Jester
Legend
I'm not saying it might make you like 4e less; I am saying that it might be good enough that you like 5e more than you like 4e.
Not saying it WILL do that- just that we really can't tell yet.
Iosue
Legend
Sorry, man. The Philippines joined the Berne Convention in 1951, and the WIPO Copyright Treaty in 2002.
Balesir
Adventurer
Which is actually irrelevant - creating, updating and maintaining electronic or other databases from published material that you have legal access to, for your own use (and not for distribution - even to your friends) is perfectly legal where I live (UK). I believe that to be true for the USA, also.
Having said that, if the database you operate on a published character builder, it's very likely that you are in breach of its licensing agreement - but that is a very different thing, and will be specific to the license involved, so you would need to check your own license.
S
Sunseeker
Guest
It depends. A single digital scan of some material? Sure. Multiple backup copies, some stored on discs? That can be kinda questionable. "Personal use" on multiple computers for ease of access? That's again, questionable.
Scrivener of Doom
Adventurer
And it completely ignores its obligations under both. Always has and, I daresay, always will.
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