Would you Swap 3.5e for Exalted?

[Ranger REG]

Though it's probably useless to ask this question on a D&D-centric board!

Which is why I posted the poll question here and not on WotC/Gleemax board.

That and my paranoid evil twin want to know who would betray us.*

*I kid. I kid.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

I voted no. I tried Exalted, and whilst I love the fluff I found the crunch really difficult to play.

The fluff is all about epic battles from rooftop to rooftop, dancing swords clashing in the setting sun, etc etc etc - however, the mechanics are about desperately trying to work how many dice you have to roll, how many you get to parry with...argh. Drove me beserk.

Give me 4e, thanks!

 

[Herzog]

Maybe I'm a bit crazy but.....

I have played using only Core Books for several years, dreading the explosion of Splatbooks I would be buying should I dare to pick some of them up.

However, with 4e around the corner, the release of 3.5 books is drying up.
And with that, I find myself buying more 3.5 books in the last two months than in the 3 years before that.
(also, the low dollar is helping. Shipping from america to the Netherlands included, it's still cheaper to buy them online than in the local bookstore.....)

My main problem is that some of them are getting hard to obtain.

I don't see myself switching to 4e any time soon. maybe 5th edition, considering I was playing Rules Cyclopedia D&D before 3rd edition, skipping AD&D entirely.....

so, I voted No.
Although I might check out Exalted at some time. For that matter, I'm also (irregularly) playing GURPS and Call of Chthulhu, so why not?

Herzog

 

[glass]

Intriguing. If I had a spare PHB, I'd totally take them up on the offer.

I do have a 'spare' PHB.

Unfortunately, the offer is not open to me. Read my 'yes' vote as 'yes, but...'.


glass.

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

Heh. I already own the Exalted 2e Corebook, but interesting marketing ploy.

 

[Kesh]

I would absolutely do this…

… if I hadn't already taken my 3.5e books to Half Price Books a while back.

 

[Psion]

Would I consider Exalted as an alternative to fantasy gaming in the same vein as 4e? Yep.

Would it replace 3.5 as my main fantasy workhorse? Not a chance in a million years.

I am actually less bothered at their "graduating" ad slogan than the fact that they are willfully trying to take 3.5 books off the secondary market that could be used for future players.

 

[Thanee]

Nope. Not interested in Exalted at all.

Besides, I want to keep my 3.5 books, in case 4E doesn't work out for me.

Bye
Thanee

 

[an_idol_mind]

Not interested. Exalted and D&D fill two entirely different niches, in my opinion.

I'd be interested in checking out Exalted, but not at the expense of another game I enjoy. The only way I'd be interested in this offer was if I was convinced that 4th edition is a replacement for 3rd edition. As it is, the two editions look like they'll play very differently, in effect making them two separate games for two separate styles of play.

 

[Keefe the Thief]

No, because the books are going to be destroyed. And there´s not a lot things i hate more than books getting destroyed.