Why won't you switch?

[GVDammerung]

Therefore I bring this question to you: why won't you switch?

There are lots of reasons. Investment, dollars and time, in 3x, coupled with contentment with that rules set. Further "distancing" from what I have known as "D&D." Etc. More than anything else right now for me, however, is "product fatigue." I just don't want to have to go through all the core books, supplements, rules additions and settings - again - after 3x. 4e looks to be a very different game than 3x but how they are going to sell it is, to me, depressingly familiar. Core books. Splat books Mark I. More Core books every year. Doubtless Splat books Mark II. Redo the settings and revisit specific areas. I've heard it called "the treadmill model." I don't want to get on that treadmill. Conversely, I really like the idea that with 3x I can have a "capped" system, particulary as there is so much to 3x that I have not got to in actual play. I'm off the Wotc treadmill and that feels very good. Clean and sober and not switching to the 4e Peruvian marching powder.

 

[Mortellan]

A capped system. I think you're onto something there GVD. Without the threat of ever-spiraling power creep in 3x, I may actually have a chance at going back and using these splatbooks I detest objectively.

 

[Delta]

Hmm...You're right. My math-fu has grown weak over the years (holds head in shame and throws math geek hat into trash )

Eh, it's a common mis-intuition that I see around here a lot. Don't think you're alone, at least you fixed it.

 

[helium3]

at least until the high fructose corn syrup discussion, which was after your post).

What's funny (to me anyhow) is that I think I initiated the HFCS warp core breech and that wasn't even my intention.

 

[Desdichado]

Oh. He must have made an error in quoting, then.

I don't think so.

And forgot the "for me" (never implied on an internet messageboard, sadly, especially when the quoting mechanism is used).

On the contrary, it's always implied in an internet discussion of any stripe.

 

[Arnwyn]

I don't think so.

I do.

On the contrary, it's always implied in an internet discussion of any stripe.

Keep fighting the good fight! I hope to share your optimism soon. Too bad the quote function keeps screwing things up.

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[MichaelK]

I find it puzzling why anyone would not want to switch.

I don't know yet whether I'd want to switch or not. I really need to see more.

However the reasons I might not want to switch are simple:

1) I like 3e (yes it's got its problems but it's still pretty good).
2) I might not like 4e and I've seen enough to get me a little worried that I won't like where it's going.

It's not just a knee-jerk reaction. I played OD&D and switched to AD&D 2e (was out of the hobby when 1e came out) then I went to 3e and 3.5e eagerly. Now on the cusp of 4e I'm nervous like never before... but we'll see.

Besides I'm going to buy the books. I just might not play with them.

 

[maggot]

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Yeah, I'm amazed this thread has been around so long.

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

I won't switch so that I can become the 3e Diaglo and haunt all future D&D gamers for the rest of my natural life in humorous yet biting condemnations of their insignificant derivative editions.

 

[Ahglock]

At first I was fairly sure I was going to switch.

I heard a lot of the design goals like fast dynamic combat and i liked them.

The more that was revealed the more I thought that the design philosophies that they are using to try and reach those goals to not match my own. End result they may end up with something they perceive as a fast and dynamic combat system, I'll see a fast and dynamic combat system wrapped in a suck tortilla.

I hope I am wrong, because I've petered out of playing 3e, only playing it occasionally, and heck I want my fantasy RPG habit satisfied. SR4 is cool and all but it isn't fantasy.