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Message: <blockquote data-quote="atom crash" data-source="post: 4051677" data-attributes="member: 22162">I do not plan to play 4E at the launch. My gaming group has been playing in a continous campaign for the past few years -- it's often slow going with a group of working 30-something professionals with other time constraints, including one player with a kid and another couple planning a wedding -- and we intend to finish that campaign. The WotC previews have showed me some things about 4E I don't like (the Marketing mantra chimes in "don't worry, things are still in flux and could change before the final version hits the shelves") and some things I do like (my inner cynic chimes in here "but again, things are still in flux and could change before the final version hits the shelves"), but the designers have pretty much explicitly said not to bother trying to convert my 3E game to 4E. So I won't.I intend to pick up a PHB when it comes out and read it thoroughly to see if the new edition is for me. That's what I did with 3E as well. I was pretty much against switching to 3E -- "why should I change systems when I'm still having fun with the 1E books I own plus my house rules?" I remember asking -- until I got a copy of the PHB for Christmas and read it. Six months later I found a group and I've been playing 3E/d20 ever since.In the meantime, I'm importing the fluff I like from the previews into my 3E game and continuing to tinker with house ruling approximate mechanics -- fewer skills and second winds, for example.I'm not against 4E on principle. And I know far too little about the game mechanics to know if I'll think it's as cool and fun as the designers want me to believe. I am dissatisfied with the marketing surrounding 4E and I'm beginning to feel I've bought more gaming books than I'll ever need, so I doubt I buy into the entire system and all the future source books, but I'll probably pick up the first 3 books eventually.</blockquote>

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