Why won't you switch?

[I'm A Banana]

As a result, many American candy manufacturers went out of business or moved thier factories to Mexico, and Americans pay the highest prices for sugar in the world and all of our processed food is stuffed with HFCS.

Which is actually one of the major reasons that corn is farmed so intensively accross the fruited plains that nothing else can really turn as much of a profit.

But now we're REALLY derailing the thread...

....er....I won't switch to 4e because it hasn't been released yet! Ghar!

 

[Mkhaiwati]

Most of my reasons have already been mentioned. Lots of 3.x material, I like it, etc, etc, ditto, ditto, so on and so forth.

But a big one for me that hasn't been mentioned has been the change in style. I think 3.x moved towards this, but 4e is taking it too far. The best example is the "we go to 30 levels the same time as it now takes to go to 20 levels." It really is too... munchkiny for me. And every level has something bright and shiny, too. Add in all the kewl powers for the non-spellcasters, having per encounter spells and everything else, it just takes D&D into a direction I don't want to play in. Others may like it, and it is a matter of taste, but it isn't for me.

Also, I hate what they did to Forgotten Realms. That is the primary D&D world for me. I don't want to play there with the new 4e setting, why should I purchase 4e? I can always play another game system with a different setting, or transform current FR into another system.

 

[Scarbonac]

Buy Mexican Coke. It uses sugar.

JediSoth

Kosher Coke, too.

 

[Cadfan]

Actually, we tax incoming sugar in order to make domestically produced corn syrup more viable.

 

[Turjan]

What is this here, Agriculture Weekly? Anyway...

A lot of people that posted after me added a lot of things that I agree and forgot about (like paladin abilities that activate with certain types of hits and affecting your whole party) with as reason why I won't be switching (bleeding triggering abilities).

I"m really curious whether actual combat will be faster than in 3.x or bogged down by all the new things to keep track of.

 

[Silent Cartographer]

Best non-news 4th edition discussion thread in several weeks!!!

You guys rock!

Seriously.

That may not be a very high bar, but despite inevitable bits of silly posturing and needless scab picking, the signal survived for a good many pages. Thanks!

I won't switch this spring because I am successfully running a Ptolus 3.5 campaign which has a lot of gas left in the tank. I won't be converting this campaign due to my appreciation of the Ptolus setting as an expression of the 3rd Edition D&D gestalt. Despite the many advantages I hope to receive from 4E, I think converting Ptolus dilutes the strength of its design. When I've exhasted my enthusiam for my current game, I will (pending the actual game release quality) hop right on over to the 4E bandwagon.

By the time I am ready to really switch over in a serious way, I'm hoping for an second printing PHB, and plenty of extras (PHB2, base splats, 4E-ECS, cool third-party stuff, etc.). So its all good for me! Thirty four-odd years and 3-5+ edition treatments worth of all the original fluff is more than enought for me...

Bring on the holy bar-b-q!!!

....er....I won't switch to 4e because it hasn't been released yet! Ghar!

You just made that up from thin air didn't you? That's not even a real reason!!!

P.S. In Tejas, I can easily find real sugared Coke in the Mex aisle of certain nearby grocery chains. Even better, you can find Dr. Pepper locally with imperial cane sugar from the last plant that makes it (in Dublin, TX), if you know where to look. Good stuff!

 

[Celebrim]

P.S. In Tejas, I can easily find real sugared Coke in the Mex aisle of certain nearby grocery chains. Even better, you can find Dr. Pepper locally with imperial cane sugar from the last plant that makes it (in Dublin, TX), if you know where to look. Good stuff!

You make me so jealous.

I already find that I can't even look at another ice cream, I'm already missing Blue Bell so badly.

And I bet the grapefruit are coming in about this time of year too.

 

[Rauol_Duke]

You make me so jealous.

 

[Desdichado]

You make me so jealous.

Reluctant Texas ex-pats unite!

 

[Rauol_Duke]

There's room for ya'll. You can come back...

...well, except for Hobo...