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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sckeener" data-source="post: 4230657" data-attributes="member: 8801">I haven't read all 5 pages of the thread...mostly because I'm just going to give my personal take...It'll either change the gaming world or bomb in my area.Houston has a difficult gaming scene.  There are plenty of gamers, but we are spread out over a very large city.  If 4e sells well, like as in bringing back the days of it being in Toys-R-Us, then I think it stands a chance of revitalizing the Houston gaming scene.  However, 4e won't sell well at my house or with anyone I know in person.  I'll be buying the core books and maybe some of the splat core book additions (PHB2, DMG2, etc)....but the fluff has changed so much that I have no interest in buying the new setting material.  I'm a collector or I was a collector.  4e is such a departure from the old that I view it as  starting separate collection.  I'm not interested in doing that.  I like to build on what has gone before.  Now I may be less interested in 4e, but still planing on getting the system....my wife on the other hand is actively hostile to 4e.  She feels betrayed by all the system and fluff changes and has absolutely no interest in switching.  She'd like to continue our 3.5 game. Tossing in my gaming group...I foresee 5 people only buying the core books.  None of us have seen anything in Dragon or Dungeon (since it went online) that is worth paying the $. WotC had better online free material before they took back Dragon and Dungeon. just my 2 cents.</blockquote>

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