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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Zardoz" data-source="post: 4142460" data-attributes="member: 704">I like the idea of open source products, whether they are game systems or software.However, only an idiot would base his purchase of a product solely on whether or not it was using open content.The only reason to purchase or use a product is if you have reason to believe that it is better than the one you currently use.  Based on the information to date, it is very possible that 4th edition will simply be a better game than 3rd edition.  If it lives up to its promises, it will be faster to run, both in combat in for game prep.  It will remove elements of the game that generally do not work out well in practice, such as Save or Screwed effects (Most hold and paralysis stuff).  High level play should not break down as it does presently.  It will integrate technology that will make playing less logistically complicated, which is better than the current state of improvised solutions that currently exist.Of course there are plenty of reasons not to purchase the game.  The rules are going to change dramatically enough that they may very well change the essential feel of the game.  Running without miniatures will be yet more difficult.  Low level characters feel a great deal more powerful.  The official rule for diagonal movement being the same as non diagonal is just mind crushingly stupid.  We lose the gnome and instead gain draconic and demon races.  The power of spell casters loses alot of glamour when the idiot swinging a sword can do essentially the same kind of tricks.  Purely mechanical restrictions on when a character can use certain magical items.  There is plenty of be wary of.But in neither case is there reason to believe that 3rd party publishers being able to create content for a system would meaningfully impact actual play at the table with respect to how the core system feels in play.END COMMUNICATION</blockquote>

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