Would you Swap 3.5e for Exalted?

[diaglo]

4e is better than 3.5. 3.0. 2nd, AD&D, Basic D&D, OD&D, Chainmail ... there I said it. Are the previous editions terrible? No! But the game evolves in fact it must evolve if the business of publishing it is to remain viable.

i think you are paraphrasing me incorrectly.

it should read OD&D(1974) is the only true game. All the other editions are just poor imitations of the real thing.

edit: it has been so long i even miswrote it.

 

[GammaPaladin]

This whole "IT'S WRONG TO DESTROY BOOKS!!!111" thing is too precious though

I mean honestly, books get destroyed for all manner of reasons. Retail returns get destroyed constantly as a matter of policy.

Yeah, I'm not happy about that either. Personally I don't think corporations should be allowed to just destroy things like that, they should have to donate them or something. Seriously, it's just... wasteful, and I totally disagree with (Hate, even) the wastefulness in our society.

 

[Vocenoctum]

If 3.5 is a good system and 3.5 doesn't suck, then why do you insisted that you not likely going to go back to using ever again (even for the sake of laughs and nostalgia)? Is it because officially you can not since that might dissuade people from upgrading?

So there's no way he can actually feel anything, right? Anything he says has no meaning except as his position dictates, so why reply to it with such a question? I don't play 1e or 2e, and won't. I find it perfectly reasonable to say you won't replay an older edition, just as I don't mind if someone says they will.

 

[Scott_Rouse]

If 3.5 is a good system and 3.5 doesn't suck, then why do you insisted that you not likely going to go back to using ever again (even for the sake of laughs and nostalgia)? Is it because officially you can not since that might dissuade people from upgrading?

I understand you are the WoTC rep and you are may not allowed to say that you would play 3.x after 4e is released, but to me many here what you said could easily be taken as "3.x sucks. I will never play it again since 4e is the win. So join use at WoTC and upgrade!"

I am saying I like 4e better and I have no reason to go back and play 3.5. If I want to get nostalgic I'll go play AD&D or Gamma World.

 

[Aus_Snow]

What they're doing is saying "Dungeon crawl games are dumb and if you play them you're dumb so don't be dumb give us the dumb rulebooks and you can play a cool game instead."

What they're doing is a thing that they have done, collectively as a company, so many times I've lost count (being the poor, dumb long-term D&Ding shmuck I is.) This thing I refer to is them marketing products with tongue firmly in cheek. Very firmly indeed. Exploiting geek and gamer culture cliches and stereotypes for all they're worth? Check.

Hm. . . sounds a lot like some of the marketing by WotC. And other companies. In fact, Kenzer & Co. (re: your Hackmaster comparison) made/makes a living largely off doing likewise, in their own ways. Yeesh, even the name of that RPG, for starters.

It's a pretty cute method that WW has adopted here. I only wish that the D&D books could be distributed to some people who might get some use out of them.

 

[BadMojo]

I wonder if White Wolf would be able to send me a copy of Aberrant in exchange for my crappy old Exalted 1st edition. I never got to play that game and always wanted to.

For what it's worth, I'm sure this promotion will be forgotten in a month or two anyway. I find it more goofy and pretentious than offensive, so I'm not really losing any sleep over it.

 

[Ranger REG]

I am saying I like 4e better and I have no reason to go back and play 3.5.

I can't really say the same yet. I'm glad to like 3e better and I have no reason to go back and play 2e rules.

 

[moritheil]

Judging from PBEM the result is a resounding no:

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=220335

 

[Maggan]

Judging from PBEM the result is a resounding no:

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=220335

The beauty of marketing is that even if only 10% takes advantage of the offer, I reckon the campaign itself will already be deemed a sucess on a basic level. Now WW has positioned Exalted as a viable alternative to D&D4, and gotten a lot of people who wouldn't have checked it out before to do so.

Aint marketing a swell thing!



/M

 

[Relique du Madde]

I am saying I like 4e better and I have no reason to go back and play 3.5. If I want to get nostalgic I'll go play AD&D or Gamma World.

To each their own. I personally would continue to play 3.x and its derivatives until they stop being fun or until 4e and it's future derivatives (if any will exist beyond d20 Modern subset) proves to be superior 3.x in every aspect. In terms of gaming, I personally never abandon a system unless it proves to be utterly useless for the games I plan on participating in or unless it proves itself to be inferior to another system when applied to a certain goal. That is why I play True20, D20 Modern (and its derivatives), Mutants and Masterminds, and StarWars along with 3.5e.

Hell, I would eagerly jump between rules subsets with if a game interests me and if there was a potential for me to find that someone might want to play it. That is why I snagged a copy MCWOD and was saddened when I later heard that 4e was announced (all of one week later). Sure, I doubt I would ever play it but if given the chance I would because I think some of that book's takes on the d20 ruleset were interesting, albeit somewhat ironic.

Now if you want to know, I would NOT trade in a copy of my PHB for Exalted ONLY because I already own a copy of that book. However, if I didn't I would only because since I own a copy of the deluxe PHB and my old PHB is barely holding itself together.