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Hmmm...
Or we could just say no to you.
I understand that you like 3.5 and you don't want to have tons of obsolete books and have to buy all new ones. But change can be good. Every time a new edition has come out, people have been hesitant. But in the end, the new edition was loved more than the old one.
Now, on the other hand, this is Wizards of the Coast we're dealing with. They did a good job on 3.x D&D. However, in recent years they've shown a decline. However, I'm having the faith in them to at least buy all three core books if nothing else and try the new edition out.
Because sometimes you just need to accept change.
Yay! I'm so happy someone started this thread. I was going to do so, but didn't quite get around to it. So, let me just hop on with a suggestion:
Let's make this thread the "I'll never buy 4e and I really mean it thread"
Here's how it works: You, the outraged fan, post about how you will never ever ever switch to 4e. I want to help you keep that commitment, so I will add some peer pressure. If you post on this thread saying that you will never ever ever switch, and subsequently do switch, I will remind you of this fact in a smug way while saying "I told you so."
Because most of you will switch. I'll even tell you how it will happen:
First, WotC will release previews. They'll change some things you didn't particularly like about 3.5. You'll think to yourself, "ooh, that's a good idea." They'll tell you about some new cool features of the game. You'll think "huh. That's pretty cool. Maybe I'll just buy the phb."
Then they'll start putting up art and showing off the new look. You'll complain that it's too pokemon-esque. You'll say that it makes the game look childish. But deep down, you'll feel your inner fanboy reacting. You'll start thinking (secretly) that it's pretty cool.
Finally, swept up in the excitement of the release, you'll go out and purchase the 4e core rules. You'll complain about some minor things ("half-orcs are broken! I hate how the mechanics are intuitive and work well!"), but you'll be very happy about a few others.
Once the first non-core book is released, you'll think, "what the heck, the core rules were good. I'll give this supplement a try." And you'll like that too. And before you know it, you'll be playing 4e.
And somewhere, out in the ether, will be this post on this thread, presaging your eventual caving in.
And I will be wiping off the crumbs of I-told-you-so pie.
Well OF COURSE there will be a new edition every few years. That should go without saying. It's like Magic Cards. You KNOW they're not going to stop doing expansions. If they ever do, the game will stagnate and die. Same with this.
Honestly, I can't imagine needing too many more 3.5 supplements. They've pretty much covered everything. So, it's time to start over. They pay their bills by making books. They've made a ton of 3.5 books, so they're starting to run out of good material to put into another one. Time to re-start the cycle.
You can either join in and buy the new edition, or not. It won't stop WotC either way. And rest assured, if you DO buy the new edition, there WILL be another one after that someday. If it ever DOES stop, then you need to be worried about the continued existence of the game.
If you don't do it now, it will never stop. Every 5 years or so they'll give it a little tweak. And most of it will just be the same thing with a little buff to shine it up.
Your money talks.
Say no? Are you insane? I'm not going to be some caveman still playing clunky old 3.5...
Seriously though, I may be in the minority here but I am actually excited about 4th edition, I like what I have read so far...
Hmmm...
Or we could just say no to you.
I understand that you like 3.5 and you don't want to have tons of obsolete books and have to buy all new ones. But change can be good. Every time a new edition has come out, people have been hesitant. But in the end, the new edition was loved more than the old one.
Now, on the other hand, this is Wizards of the Coast we're dealing with. They did a good job on 3.x D&D. However, in recent years they've shown a decline. However, I'm having the faith in them to at least buy all three core books if nothing else and try the new edition out.
Because sometimes you just need to accept change.
I didn't say that I'm pro 3.5 and nothing else. I've played since the D&D red book. I've done 1st edition, 2nd edition, skipped 3.0, and am doing 3.5 now.
My sole point is that if you keep buying in they will never stop "revising" the game to get your dollars. And how much of each revision has actually been new and not a rehash of old stuff?
They've never even finished converting 3.0 to 3.5.
Yay! I'm so happy someone started this thread. I was going to do so, but didn't quite get around to it. So, let me just hop on with a suggestion:
Let's make this thread the "I'll never buy 4e and I really mean it thread"
Here's how it works: You, the outraged fan, post about how you will never ever ever switch to 4e. I want to help you keep that commitment, so I will add some peer pressure. If you post on this thread saying that you will never ever ever switch, and subsequently do switch, I will remind you of this fact in a smug way while saying "I told you so."
Because most of you will switch. I'll even tell you how it will happen:
First, WotC will release previews. They'll change some things you didn't particularly like about 3.5. You'll think to yourself, "ooh, that's a good idea." They'll tell you about some new cool features of the game. You'll think "huh. That's pretty cool. Maybe I'll just buy the phb."
Then they'll start putting up art and showing off the new look. You'll complain that it's too pokemon-esque. You'll say that it makes the game look childish. But deep down, you'll feel your inner fanboy reacting. You'll start thinking (secretly) that it's pretty cool.
Finally, swept up in the excitement of the release, you'll go out and purchase the 4e core rules. You'll complain about some minor things ("half-orcs are broken! I hate how the mechanics are intuitive and work well!"), but you'll be very happy about a few others.
Once the first non-core book is released, you'll think, "what the heck, the core rules were good. I'll give this supplement a try." And you'll like that too. And before you know it, you'll be playing 4e.
And somewhere, out in the ether, will be this post on this thread, presaging your eventual caving in.
And I will be wiping off the crumbs of I-told-you-so pie.
Thank you for your snarky sarcasm. Reread my original post and my actual point.
Thank you for your snarky sarcasm. Reread my original post and my actual point.
Maybe you could explain it, I'm a little slow. It seems like the title of the thread is "Just say no to 4.0" and that your original post advocated not paying for 4.0. I guess maybe you were suggesting that people shoplift the 4e books instead of purchasing them, but I took it to mean you were taking a stand against 4e. And, as I mentioned in my post, I want to help you make that stand.
I want to help everyone make that stand!
Edit: Aw, who am I kidding. I want to smugly smile when you declare that you are making the stand but don't go through with it.
I think my problem is that I don't feel like I have played 3.5 out yet. With the original AD&D, I played for years and then with 2d edition it was possible to ignore most of the rules changes and continue using original AD&D. As a result, I had characters and campaigns that lasted decades and involved tremendous fun.
All that changed with 3.0. To retrofit characters from AD&D to work in the new system was virtually impossible. I accepted that and worked all my old characters into 'concept NPCs' (all flavor, no stats) and built new games. 3.5 fixed most of what was broken in 3.0 (although I still don't know why anyone would play a half-elf) and finally I have built campaigns worthy of the original AD&D.
Going to another new rule-set right now seems premature. I would prefer it if they would simply ret-con in their new 20 level race rules (fixing the biggest missed opportunity of 3.5) and give us another couple of years before they dump 4.0 on us. After all, the well is not dry for new rules and game play options with 3.5.
Consider:
20 level race optional rules (one book for each race perhaps? that could add up)
Grittier adventures in a low magic milieu (Heroes of Horror, and Battle could have another installment)
Theme books to explore Magical Beasts in greater details (like Draconomicon, Libris Mortis, and Lords of Madness)
Setting books (Arabian Nights, Harry Potter's world--modern with hidden magic, Ancient Rome, Spelljammer, etc., the list is endless)
Converted 3.5 versions of the 'Mature Line' of books
and more.
Just another couple of years of 3.5 goodness would be great.
As it is, I will probably hold my party back from converting so that I can get that anyway.
Reread my original post and my actual point.What was your point? "Don't buy more WotC books and maybe they will stop publishing"? That'll show them.
My point is that they aren't being given any incentive to do anything other than rehash what they've already done.
Is there really nowhere else they can go with the current rules?
Maybe they shouldn't have let go of all those designers back in the 3.0 to 3.5 days.
Yeah, in retrospect, given that those were the only designers on the planet Earth, it was a mistake to let them go. It's not as if new designers could have been hired.
Maybe they shouldn't have let go of all those designers back in the 3.0 to 3.5 days.
Gosh, you're just all fired up over this, aren't you?
Guess we'll see in the long run whether they sink or swim.
Going to another new rule-set right now seems premature. I would prefer it if they would simply ret-con in their new 20 level race rules (fixing the biggest missed opportunity of 3.5) and give us another couple of years before they dump 4.0 on us. After all, the well is not dry for new rules and game play options with 3.5.
It is premature -- it isn't coming out for quite a few months yet.
"The well is not dry".
Maybe that is the point. I have been compiling a list of all the new feats introduced in Dragon Magazine alone and am currently somewhere around 150 different feats and I haven't even hit half of them yet. How much is enough? Maybe there is too much. I love 3.5, but how many prestige classes before you have too many? Spells? Feats? It is bordering on the insane trying to keep up with it all.
Maybe the well isn't dry yet, but it also might be time to wipe the slate clean and start over. If not, then maybe you can come up with another 300 feats and make 3.5 complete.
And I don't think that a couple more years would truly make any difference. It is probably the right time for WotC to make this change. And people will gripe just as much no matter when it happened. In two years people will have gotten even more material that they would feel was just a waste. It doesn't really matter.
They've never even finished converting 3.0 to 3.5.
This point got lost in the wash, but I felt it was worth revisiting.
Do you have anything specific in mind when you say that? Is there some 3.0 concept they haven't recovered in 3.5? I'd be interested in some examples, because I can't really think of anything.
I'll agree with a lot of that. No more new feats needed. We've got plenty of prestige classes.
But are they really done exploring Eberron before having to convert it all to a new edition?
Sigh. I kind of wished they'd given us a Planescape hardcover. Or even (heaven help me) a Spelljammer hardcover.
Once again, I find myself *shudder* thinking along the same lines as Sebastian (except about the pie thing. I'm not a big fan of pie). This whole thing is really just a "let's wait and see" situation.
Will I at least buy the 4E PHB? Probably, just to see what its all about.
Does that mean I will immediately convert? No, and I probably will keep with 3.5 for a few years. My group is happy with it, and has enoguh stuff to keep going for about 10 years or so. Hell, we started AoW before it had even finished, and we're just about half-way through that.
Edit: Wow, Steve Greer says it even better right above.
If you don't do it now, it will never stop. Every 5 years or so they'll give it a little tweak. And most of it will just be the same thing with a little buff to shine it up.
Your money talks.
I'm not sure I'm won over by this idea yet, but if you think about the core of what you said, it boils down to this:
"If we all quit buying, there won't be any more D&D books."
What a releif . . .
DitheringFool
(Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Roleplaying Game, Campaign Setting, Companion, Modules, GameMastery Cards Subscriber)
<snip>Because most of you will switch. I'll even tell you how it will happen:
First, WotC will release previews. They'll change some things you didn't particularly like about 3.5. You'll think to yourself, "ooh, that's a good idea." They'll tell you about some new cool features of the game. You'll think "huh. That's pretty cool. Maybe I'll just buy the phb."
Then they'll start putting up art and showing off the new look. You'll complain that it's too pokemon-esque. You'll say that it makes the game look childish. But deep down, you'll feel your inner fanboy reacting. You'll start thinking (secretly) that it's pretty cool.
Finally, swept up in the excitement of the release, you'll go out and purchase the 4e core rules. You'll complain about some minor things ("half-orcs are broken! I hate how the mechanics are intuitive and work well!"), but you'll be very happy about a few others.
Once the first non-core book is released, you'll think, "what the heck, the core rules were good. I'll give this supplement a try." And you'll like that too. And before you know it, you'll be playing 4e.
And somewhere, out in the ether, will be this post on this thread, presaging your eventual caving in.<snip>
You are absolutely right and it makes me even more irratated. Although I must say, I wont switch until Paizo does. The first 4e Pathfinder will probably win me over. I hate that I am such a Paizo-wh*re...
I'm not sure I'm won over by this idea yet, but if you think about the core of what you said, it boils down to this:"If we all quit buying, there won't be any more D&D books."
What a releif . . .
Well, if you take the approach of "I have so much stuff I don´t need anything new for the next years" to extreme, then why should you even care if D&D swims or sinks? And if D&D would sink because no one is buying it, why on Oerth should any company buy the licence if the game failed once due to non-existent revenue? "Once bitten, twice shy."
I´m also on the "wait and see" side of things. But if WotC is to continue their business, they have to sell new editions from time to time. I´m as upset about their crappy communications as the next guy, but if the product is ok, I can live with that. It´s waay better the way communications are with paizo, so at present, my gaming money goes here.
Stefan
Here's how it works: You, the outraged fan, post about how you will never ever ever switch to 4e. I want to help you keep that commitment, so I will add some peer pressure. If you post on this thread saying that you will never ever ever switch, and subsequently do switch, I will remind you of this fact in a smug way while saying "I told you so."
Tell you what Sebastian, since you are so determined to relish in 4th edition, I'll make you the same deal. You're saying you will switch, and should you subsequently not do so or revert from the hogwash of 4th, I will remind you in just as smug a way (should that even be possible).
Because most of you will switch.
I will not, but admittedly that's simply because I only play odd editions. (1st edition is #1!)
Tata.
DitheringFool
(Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Roleplaying Game, Campaign Setting, Companion, Modules, GameMastery Cards Subscriber)
If were suppose to support 4th edition does that mean I shouldn’t buy any 3.5 products for the next nine months seeing as some of the game designers at WOTC dislike it so much what would be the point??? Help, I’m confused.
James Wyatt -- And it is a rise, let me tell you. I'm so excited about Fourth Edition I can barely contain myself. Running the Delve in our booth yesterday was awkward—I saw so many of the things I have grown to dislike about 3E come into play. Oh, the poor rogue's useless against all these plants and elementals. Oh, the poor dwarf didn't confirm his crit. Oh, look at all the people forgetting about attacks of opportunity (especially at reach) and getting pummeled as a result. I can't say too much about it, but you can be sure it's not just grapple that got an overhaul.
Tell you what Sebastian, since you are so determined to relish in 4th edition, I'll make you the same deal. You're saying you will switch, and should you subsequently not do so or revert from the hogwash of 4th, I will remind you in just as smug a way (should that even be possible).
That's because a key ingredient of smugness is being right.
But sure, feel free to mock me when I revert back to 3e. I would also appreciate it if you would push my wheelchair over by the window so that I can have the sun shining in my face and bring some extra mashed peas, because clearly I will have suffered some sort of debilitating brain injury.
Karelzarath
(Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Roleplaying Game, Campaign Setting, Companion, Battles Case Subscriber)
As much as it pains me to say it, I agree with Sebastian on this. However, that gives rise to an inquiry. Sebastian, if everyone is going to convert anyway, why the call to arms to buy? Aren't you being a bit redundant?
Sebastian suffers from the same problem as all laywers: they tell you something you don't want to hear, you try to deny it, but in the end they end up either changing your mind or altering the fundamental laws of the universe so that they've always been right. I know, I'm marrying one.
And yeah, I'll buy the core books and give it a shot. I just hope it's worth sticking with.
Sebastian suffers from the same problem as all laywers: they tell you something you don't want to hear, you try to deny it, but in the end they end up either changing your mind or altering the fundamental laws of the universe so that they've always been right. I know, I'm marrying one.
Being married to a lawyer myself, you have my deepest sympathies. ;-D
I'm more like a Paizo-fiend. Can't get enough of them super-golden crisps....I hate that I am such a Paizo-wh*re...That has such a negative connotation to it... why not call yourself a Paizo-friend? :)
Wait, if we're supposed to be Paizo-fiends and not Paizo-wh*res, then my local retailed wont be offering 'A Pimp Slap With Every Purchase?' Great. I might as well just order online.
::sigh::