D&D 3E/3.5 Would you be interested in a 4E book of 3E designs?

[Alzrius]

If WotC were to release, say as one of their annual PHB/DMG series, a book that had 4E versions of various 3E-isms, would you be interested in buying it?

By "3e-isms," I mean things like having variant planar monsters that more closely resembled the traditional baatezu and tanar'ri, the Great Wheel planar structure, Vancian magic, gnomes, druids, saving throws, altered base classes to be more like in 3.5E, etc?

 

[Nifft]

Anything I care about enough to want in such a book, I have confidence that I could do better myself, or find already done by someone else here.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Rechan]

You DO realize they will have gnomes and druids in 4e, right? If the gnome isn't in the PHB it will be in the MM.

 

[Alzrius]

You DO realize they will have gnomes and druids in 4e, right? If the gnome isn't in the PHB it will be in the MM.

It hasn't been confirmed, so it works for the scenario I'm describing.

 

[The Little Raven]

Yeah, druids probably won't make the PHBI, but will most likely appear again in the future. And the gnome has already been confirmed as one of the monsters that gets a racial writeup in the MM appendix.

Vancian Magic isn't completely dead, as it sounds like even with arcane strikes (at will) and power words (per encounter), wizards spells (per day) might still follow the traditional "Shove a mostly-completed spell, sealed in a tupperware container, into my brain for later use" model.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Someone's got to say it

If they did a 4e 3e-Style-FRCS, which takes the good old Realms and gives us a simple rules update, without mass deicide, Divine Soap Opera, and Setting FUBARing, I'd get it.

 

[w_earle_wheeler]

If it could be done in one or two books in the first year, I'd be interested.

I'm not interested in having conversions doled out once a year over the course of five to seven years, only to have the "official" conversion process abruptly end because the next edition will be peaking around the corner at that point.

 

[freyar]

Voted uncertain, but that's mainly because I don't know when I'll finally get around to adopting 4e -- my current group is just getting into 3.5, and I have a ton of stuff to use.

That said, I'd be willing to bet that there are several companies and individuals who frequent these boards who could do a great conversion job faster than WotC will be able to. In addition, if 3.Xe stuff is treated under the new OGL the same way 1e and 2e stuff was under the old OGL, a lot of the 3.X crunch (monsters at least, I expect) should become fair game for OGL updating...