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<blockquote data-quote="Sunderstone" data-source="post: 4052017" data-attributes="member: 23497">My main reason for not switching is the flavor of 4E as other posters have stated. Too much deviation from the classic D&amp;D elements (imho). Also some rule changes , particularly magic and Wizards. Each revision also becomes more miniatures heavy as well. While I like using minis for some main battles, I hate the way it slows down a game for&nbsp; every other battle.Also imho, most broken things in D&amp;D come from poorly-balanced Splatbooks. Be it combat options, classes and PrCs, high-powered races, spells etc. At least we have the option of not having to use it. Then with all these options we get rules bloat as well. So what does WotC do... they say the game is broken (when they are the ones that broke it) and we need to make a new edition because all of us arent having fun. So instead of releasing a new edition with better (faster?) rules, they want to change everything now, even the stuff alot of us like. AND they will now add Splat into the core because it might sell better to the younger more mainstream crowd. Then theres the WotC &quot;our way or the highway&quot; steamroller...1) DDI - now we have to pay a monthly fee for access to additional material, no more free enhancements. 2) Paying for a &quot;preview&quot; of 4E. I still laugh at this blatant money grabber. &quot;Please waste your money and pay us for a peek at what we have in store for you. Even though it all may change before release&quot;. Previews like brochures should be free if you are trying to sell folks on something that may or may not be needed at this time.3) Charging other publishers $5k for an early draft of 4E. They should be giving these out to these companies at no charge with an NDA. It will only help them sell more 4E anyway.&nbsp; And alot of us know some of these independant folks put out really good material, in some cases better material than the in-house WotC staff. 4) The OGL thing.5) The &quot;No negative comment&quot; policy.3.5 is fine for us. My group pretty much is Core only anyway even though I allow the environmental books, Planar Handbook and the XPH (which no one has used yet). We even stopped using the PH2 because of the &quot;warcrafty-ness&quot; (and all but one of us play warcraft pretty much daily).P.S. Grappling might be a tad clunky in 3.5, but it works fine for us.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sunderstone, post: 4052017, member: 23497"] My main reason for not switching is the flavor of 4E as other posters have stated. Too much deviation from the classic D&D elements (imho). Also some rule changes , particularly magic and Wizards. Each revision also becomes more miniatures heavy as well. While I like using minis for some main battles, I hate the way it slows down a game for every other battle. Also imho, most broken things in D&D come from poorly-balanced Splatbooks. Be it combat options, classes and PrCs, high-powered races, spells etc. At least we have the option of not having to use it. Then with all these options we get rules bloat as well. So what does WotC do... they say the game is broken (when they are the ones that broke it) and we need to make a new edition because all of us arent having fun. So instead of releasing a new edition with better (faster?) rules, they want to change everything now, even the stuff alot of us like. AND they will now add Splat into the core because it might sell better to the younger more mainstream crowd. Then theres the WotC "our way or the highway" steamroller... 1) DDI - now we have to pay a monthly fee for access to additional material, no more free enhancements. 2) Paying for a "preview" of 4E. I still laugh at this blatant money grabber. "Please waste your money and pay us for a peek at what we have in store for you. Even though it all may change before release". Previews like brochures should be free if you are trying to sell folks on something that may or may not be needed at this time. 3) Charging other publishers $5k for an early draft of 4E. They should be giving these out to these companies at no charge with an NDA. It will only help them sell more 4E anyway. And alot of us know some of these independant folks put out really good material, in some cases better material than the in-house WotC staff. 4) The OGL thing. 5) The "No negative comment" policy. 3.5 is fine for us. My group pretty much is Core only anyway even though I allow the environmental books, Planar Handbook and the XPH (which no one has used yet). We even stopped using the PH2 because of the "warcrafty-ness" (and all but one of us play warcraft pretty much daily). P.S. Grappling might be a tad clunky in 3.5, but it works fine for us. [/QUOTE]

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