D&D 4E Your habits, considering 4e is coming

[mhacdebhandia]

Will this change any plans for long term campaigns? Going to have your current game finish up around the time of the 4e release? Think you'll be losing gamers from your group if you try 4e?

Not really, to all three.

The two campaigns I've just started were likely to finish around May next year anyway, give or take. As for losing gamers, no-one I play with is heavily invested in D&D as their single game, so an edition change is really no different than playing GURPS next anyway.

 

[hectorse]

Will this change any plans for long term campaigns?

Not really. Current camapaign is set in Eberron and my PC's are around level 9, and I'm interested in finishing this campaign around level 14, so there is enough time to get there and finish this. I plan on running eyes of the lich queen, so maybe it will be like this:

-Finish current adventure at level 10
-Start new and final act in our campaign and end it around level 14
-Do a small epilogue

-Start a fresh campaign in Eberron and end it with eyes of the lich queen, it would take 3 months at most.

Going to have your current game finish up around the time of the 4e release?

Most Probably Yes, I plan on playing SAGA edition for a test run in preparation for 4e


Think you'll be losing gamers from your group if you try 4e?

Not really, we are friends group and we will divide in two. One of the guys will be running 3.5 and I think I'll be running 4e, so no problem there.

 

[Crazy Jerome]

The actual release won't change any of my plans (or the groups' plans) at all. We have planned a Ptolus/Arcana Evolved campaign, a Burning Wheel campaign, Star Wars Saga campaign, and maybe some retro Champions. That's not counting any goofing around we do with homebrew systems. At our rate, that puts us up around 2012 or so.

Now, I like what I'm hearing about 4E so far. If it's widely acknowledged as the bees knees, then I can see us picking up the three core books around 2010 or so, and interspersing it with some of those other campaigns and/or running some of the Ptolus stuff with it. We'll probably be grabbing a few things out of the 4E SRD for house rules. But our group would really rather wait for a later printing that incorporates the inevitable errata.

 

[pogre]

We're looking at adopting 4e pretty quickly. Right now I have stopped all 3.5 purchases. I probably will port my current campaign to 4e. If we do not like it we can always change back.

 

[MoogleEmpMog]

How will your gaming habits be affected by knowing that 4E is coming?

Not at all.

Will this change any plans for long term campaigns?

I'll probably try a 4e campaign, which obviously wouldn't happen if it wasn't released.

Going to have your current game finish up around the time of the 4e release?

No. I'm not actually sure where any of our ongoing campaigns will be when the 4e core comes out.

Think you'll be losing gamers from your group if you try 4e?

No chance whatsoever. My group doesn't play just one system or one campaign. Most of them seem interested in at least trying 4e.

 

[danbuter1]

I haven't bought a 3.5 book in a while (last one was Waterdeep, I think). I am optimistic about the changes I've been hearing, though.

I am sure we will at least do a one-nighter in 4e to test the rules.

 

[Aus_Snow]

How will your gaming habits be affected by knowing that 4E is coming?

Not one bit.

Think you'll be losing gamers from your group if you try 4e?

Definitely, but I'm not going to, so that's fine.

 

[Elephant]

My habits won't change - when I have occasion to game, I'll game.

Once 4e is released, I may or may not play it, depending on what my various gaming friends do. I wouldn't skip out on a group just because they started playing 4e, but I wouldn't refuse to continue a 3e campaign, either.

 

[WayneLigon]

Nothing should change for us. We normally plan for campaigns about 1-2 years in length and we're only about six months into this one. Then when we leave it, we're probably not going to be in the heroic fantasy mood so it's very likely that we'll do something modern-day and perhaps horror oriented. Or we might do Scion or Demigod, or .. something. So when we pick up 4E it's not likely to be until late next year, if then. Now, it could be so transformative and fascinating that we drop what we're doing and play it, but I don't think so.

The switch will probably come, but that depends on the finished product and how specifically they deliver on certain promises - the main ones being streamlining of NPC creation, multiclassing, and how much Vancian casting gets dismantled or made obsolete.

 

[Blackwind]

Our current campaign should be ending right around the time 4E comes out (we'll be anywhere from 12th-16th level by then, at this rate). I'm pretty optimistic about 4E, but I also might wait to read reviews before I buy the new PH.

I like what I'm hearing about 4E so far; it sounds like they're trying to address some of the problems I've had with 3.x. But there's also *tons* of 3.x stuff I'd love to run: Arcana Evolved, Ptolus, Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk, Necromancer stuff, Age of Wyrms, Savage Tide, War of the Burning Sky -- and now the Pathfinder campaigns look great, too. Actually, I prefer to use my homebrew setting, but I hate prepping for 3E. Especially statblocks.

So, basically, if the 4E play experience (and especially the DM experience) is clearly superior, we'll switch, and hopefully I can go back to creating my own stuff and have that not be a total headache.

Our current group is pretty casual, if the other DM and I want to switch, we will, and no one else will care one way or the other.

Also, I haven't bought any 3.x books since the announcement, and won't until after 4E debuts. But I am still buying minis and dungeon tiles.