D&D 4E Will 4E be announced at D&D Experience?

[Quartz]

Personally, I highly doubt that a fourth edition would be successful at the moment

What if 4e were a vast clean-up? d20 is rapidly becoming a mess with all the splatbooks.

 

[Mark Plemmons]

[*]An apocalyptic FR adventure path trilogy

I find this most interesting, since we saw apocalyptic adventure just before 3.0.

My guess has always been for a 2008 release, so I'm sticking with that.

 

[Le Noir Faineant]

But the d20 stuff out for DL isn't by WoTC, it's by another company.

WoTC will make money off the books, not the RPGs.

Yes, yet the DLCS was co-produced by WotC. - In the end, of course, but

What if 4e were a vast clean-up? d20 is rapidly becoming a mess with all the splatbooks.

Like a 3.75, maybe with some expansions? - That would be okay for most of us, yet I doubt it.

Yet, I bet they will announce something concerning FR this year. "The Sundering of the World" and a follow-up "History of the Realms" sounds very like "we will discontinue this setting" to me... Now, as I said on earlier occassions, never liked Elminster in any case...

 

[Pramas]

I find this most interesting, since we saw apocalyptic adventure just before 3.0.

Yes, and I wrote it (with Jason Carl). The Apocalypse Stone was a deliberate attempt to get people to end their campaigns and start fresh with 3E.

 

[BRP2]

If they do make a 4E, I'd like to see it something more 'centric'. Power Attack, Criticals, Sneak Attack, Precise Strike, Sudden Strike... it all seems the same, but it is explained in so many different ways. I would also like it if they made it less based on bonuses and more on dice. 5d6 > 1d6+24 in my opinion, because at some point, you are better off not rolling dice at all and that kind of kills some of the fun for DnD. And I'd really like it for once they made some type of balance between melee and mages. If they expect me to throw 3/3.5 away for 4 then they should be fixing the bigger problems.

 

[airwalkrr]

Gotta get all the 4e threads to the top.

 

[teitan]

I think we'll see revised books before a 4e. Nothing special, maybe new covers and interiors, changing up the cover theme for something fresh, get the MM into the new Monster Manual stat layout. Inclusion of rules like the swift and immediate actions etc. When you consider the difference in how material is presented in 2e to 3e, they really haven't touched on lot in 3e like they did in 2e where most of the product was text etc. as opposed to rules. A revision that updates the artwork, the cover design etc. could give 3.5 a needed shot in the arm and delay a 4e for a few years as long as the changes are as minor as the 2e revision. I hope this is what we see first but with the rules compendium I doubt it.

 

[teitan]

But the d20 stuff out for DL isn't by WoTC, it's by another company.

WoTC will make money off the books, not the RPGs.

WOTC does get money from the RPG books... that's what licensing is...

 

[prosfilaes]

No major game has as long an edition cycle as D&D does so far and yet you don't hear people scream about it.

GURPS does. 3rd Edition came out in 1989, and 4th edition came out in 2004. In between there, there was one update to the Basic Book that removed the sample adventure and added 16 pages of rules that had been printed in too many supplements already, without changing the page numbers on anything else in the book.

 

[mhensley]

just 8 more days to find out...