Will you buy 4th edition?

Will you buy 4th edition?

  • I will buy it sight unseen

    Votes: 222 50.9%
  • I might buy it, after initial reviews

    Votes: 74 17.0%
  • I probably will not buy it, but might eventually

    Votes: 75 17.2%
  • I absolutely will not buy it

    Votes: 43 9.9%
  • I have no idea

    Votes: 22 5.0%

dmccoy1693 said:
Then came a thread by a pro-4Eer that addressed all the anti's and said that the pro-4Eers are sick of their whining and they don't want them here. Some anti-4Eers saw that as a personal attack on them. Several days later that thread was still around and not locked. That gave some anti's the opinion that Enworld management is against the anti-4Eer (again, nothing against Morrus or the mods, just stating preceptions). It was the final staw and some just left.

I saw that also......

figured it was like a ref at a ball game. Makes a bum call. reliezes it so they try to "even" it out later with another bum call. Sucks but understandable.

Push comes to shove, in the early days (weeks) after the announcement there were a lot of strong emotions being expressed. It wasn't meant to be hateful or even offensive but was. It has calmed down considerably since. I credit some of this calming to the Monitors here whom had a hell of a time dealing with it. After that- time to breath. Breathing is good.
 

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I dunno - our gaming group has discussed it, and, frankly, what is the incentive to switch? We've already got thousands of dollars invested in 3.x products (not to mention thousands more dollars of BECMI/1st/2nd edition stuff also).

So far, everything that WotC has provided sneak-peaks on could have just as easily made it into "Unearthed Arcana II." Using items as spell focuses instead of having schools? Using Ability score vs. saves? None of it seems revolutionary.

Compare the little bits of mechanics that WotC has revealed to previous editions, and it looks and feels extremely similar - it doesn't appear that they are really doing much to change the core mechanic.

By way of example, the 1st and 2nd editions of TW:2K look and feel very different because the core mechanics changed.

I say, just adapt SWSE's skill rules and be done with it.
 

CanadienneBacon said:
...more, I think I'm just outgrowing the hobby. :(

If so, I hope you figure it out before May! :D

But, I do know what you mean. I all but quit the boards when 4e was announced. Not that I wanted to hate 4e ... I just like the version of 3.x that I play. [Well, that and all the yelling between 4e fanboys and 4e haters made the mods grumpy, too. This place is less fun when posters are unreasonable and make the mods grumpy!]

So, I began to feel like I didn't want to be around D&D anymore. Slowly I began to realize that I wasn't actually outgrowing the hobby. I was actually saddened by moving beyond the 3.x game/world that I had spent so much time/money/thought invested in. Once I decided to be willing to let the world move on to 4e (and happily so!) I found my enthusiasm for D&D returning. I have no problems with the world moving on to 4e - so long as they don't send in the D&D police and take away my 3.x books! We can exist in the same world ... or at least should be able to.
 

Nonlethal Force said:
I have no problems with the world moving on to 4e - so long as they don't send in the D&D police and take away my 3.x books! We can exist in the same world ... or at least should be able to.
That's pretty much where I"m at too. Next stop ... Grognard-land.
 

I'll be getting it, I'm sure. Whether or not I can find a gaming group in Denver is another story. I tend to be very particular about who I game with--basically, if I wouldn't do other social things with them, it's hard for me to spend a great deal of time gaming with them. That's one of the things that I was really lucky with in Chicago--I found a lot of great people to game with and found some really good friends among them for non-gaming things.
 

Remember me guys?

I have no idea myself. I only recently learned about 4e (hence my return, I figered ENWorld would live up to its legacy and be informative), and I've only scratched the surface of some of the stuff. I read the bit about wizards on the front page toda, and I have to say it seemed completely unreognizable to me. I reall to need to learn more about what's being discussed, but for ever change that sounds good, there seems to be one or two changes that make it seem incomprehensible.

I like the 3.x ruleset too, even though I've played very little since the beginning of 3.5. I understood that 4e would happen eventually, and most of the predictions over the past few years here seem to have been fairly accurate with an average release date of sometime in 2008. I've always felt that 3.5 was a solid ruleset that maybe only needed a bit of tweaking and streamlining, but no really a major overhaul. Yet that major overhaul seems to be what I'm seeing on the surface.

But OTOH, I remember what things were like 8 years ago when 3e was about to be released fairly clearly. There were a lot of doubters and bashers who didn't like it on a misinformed first impression, yet it managed to win a lot of people over. I dunno if the same thing is going on here or what.
 

I'll buy it, run it, and then go with what my group thinks is more fun. I finally have my 3.5 ed prep time and rules down pat - so that will not be a a major influence for me.
 



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