[WOTC] Revised Corebooks for July confirmed with info

[N Hammer]

I understand why WotC is bringing out revised editions of the core rule book....But I already have a set of rule books and I'm not spending money on the revised books. I'll just wait and get the changes from the 'net, I'm sure some website will have the changes posted...

 

[Barcode]

The only thing that will piss me off is that I'm sure I'll find more editorial errors in my first read-through. If WOTC would like a new editor to work for them I'm availible and am reasonably sure I could get drunk before work every day and still do a better job than those who are doing it now.

Will you promise to spell available correctly?

 

[tleilaxu]

haha... this is a message board i can spell availible howevar i want ((you missed the other errors in my last post... for shame... if you want to be snarky you should have nailed me on them all))

 

[William Ronald]

I think the revisions may serve another useful purpose: they may help people who are undecided about making the switch between editions. In my own gaming group, we have someone who has been largely inactive since 3E came out. Essentially, he does not want to learn a new set of rules that seemed confusing to him. (I miss him, but he also has been very active in collectible card games.)

Will the revised books be perfect? Of course not, human beings are involved in the process. However, if they do clarify a few things, solve a few problems, and bring more enjoyment to my game it will be worth it to buy the books.

Perhaps the DMG could have more examples of role playing and creating complex characters. It might help new gamers out.

 

[Plane Sailing]

I expect the ranger class to be changed... obviously far too powerful as it is, so they ditch the ambi & TWF and replace it with nothing. That'll stop people twinking!



Seriously, I would expect the jump skill to be completely replaced by the description from d20 Modern - a proper DC based way of handling jumps rather than the strange calculator-intensive method in the current PHB. The d20 Modern handle animals will probably find its way in there too.

The difference between star wars and starwars revised character classes was huge. I'd imagine that it will be on a much smaller scale than those revisions. It will be interesting to see how it pans out.

Cheers

 

[Qlippoth]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Curious...

BUT, please realize the point wasn't about having to buy the books, it was simply pointing out that other games--even successful, well-regarded ones--revised their rules in a far shorter span of time than 3 years, and didn't make the same effort to maintain backwards compatability.

Looks like we were on the same page after all. Maxima mea culpa.

 

[tleilaxu]

i bet they won't make as many changes to the classes as people think

 

[Kamard]

i bet I will look at them and buy them if they are something I want. If they aren't, I will make J. Random Player buy them for me.

*insert cruel, DMesque laughter*

 

[F5]

revisions to be posted in the SRD

Well, apparently Bill Slavicsek and Ed Stark have confirmed that Wizards intends to publish the revised materials to the SRD the day the new books are released.

That makes me a lot happier than I was, anyway. People who are reluctant to buy new versions of the books we've already paid for can check out exactly what the new content is, and decide if it's worth the investment. Those that aren't willing still have access to the most "current" version of classes and feats and etc.

Does that change any opinions out there? Is posting the changes to the SRD right away a fair compromise?

 

[Henry]

what are you doing with yours??? mine's still pristine and up until a month ago, i played 3 times a week, every week. now i'm down to once a week, tho once the season is over it'll go back up to a nice regular twice weekly schedule.

~NegZ

Neg Zero: Read Thalmin's post, and reference what others have said in dozens of posts over the past three years about their 1st edition books.

I don't know WHO Gygax got to bind those things, but those 1st edition books had calf-skin pages, bindings of dragon-sinew, spines made of Balrog-horn, and covers permeated with adamant. Those things have lasted generations with gamers who left them baking in cars, inundated with soda pop, buried under debris, and generally abused like red-headed stepchildren.

I'm exaggerating slightly, but I have heard tales of 1st edition books surviving knifings, rain storms, and contortions unheard of. My own books have survived ME for 20 years now, while my 3rd edition players handbook, although still intact, has already begun to slightly separate its binding from its spine. It's not bad, but it flops like it didn't used to.


People say this about things all the time, but in this one case, I can truly say: "They don't make 'em like they used to."

Just my two cents.