| scott spicer |
I realise that Im going to be bucking a trend here, but why, everytime any company issues a new edition of a game, is there massive uproar?
I first started playing D&D before third edition. When WOC published it, the group I was playing with continued playing TSR's AD&D. And still do to this day.
If you dont want to part with your hard earned cash for a fourth edition, dont. Theres enough material available in 3 / 3.5 ed format in shops and online to keep anyone going for years, and like my old AD&D group, you can always rely on your own imagination rather than published 'canon' material.
Further more, if your regular group wants to see / use the material WOC put on there website, theres nothing to stop you spreading the cost out amongst the group - Ive been a member of several gaming clubs that opperated the same way with print material - the players and DMs all contributed equally to the cost of something new the game needed - everyone benefited from the new toy.
Id also like to say, that while theres not much information on 4th ed available, I like what i've read on the WOC website. The planned changes to the way races work is a great idea, and the fact the the basic systems going to be fairly simmilar (otherwise they wouldnt be able to call it d20) means that we should be able to adapt existing material to it. Ok, the changes in the way classes (esp fighter)work might be inspired buy systems like WOWs (according to my friend. I dont play it), but thats a good move, because itll help bring in the mmorpg players (those that arent already pen and paper players), but I also like the idea of there being a mechanical difference between ( using their example) an axe fighter and a sword fighter.
So long as the new editions an improvemnet on the old, wheres the problem? To this point, it dosent look like WOC are pulling a 'games workshop' - taking there main games lines and dumbing them down (ahem - current ed of 40k)m and making it worse (in my oppinion)
Anyway, ive started to ramble. Any response?