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What edition of D&D do you currently expect to be playing at the end of 2008?
Probably one campaign in 4th edition, and another in 3.5+.
Since were planning on playing the Savage Tide adventure path in a month or two and that it took us 2 years to finish the Age of Worms I'm not worried about 4e as of right now. In fact I view it as the Vista of RPG, I'll give them a year or two to work out the bugs!!!
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Since were planning on playing the Savage Tide adventure path in a month or two and that it took us 2 years to finish the Age of Worms I'm not worried about 4e as of right now. In fact I view it as the Vista of RPG, I'll give them a year or two to work out the bugs!!!
So you're saying you'll buy 4.5 when it comes out in May 2010.
Probably Something Completely The Same. I mean different. Not D&D, I'm worn out by all these continual rule changes/errata/updates/versions/flavours/new shiny rulebooks. It's time to let the imagination free of the restrictive bonds of neverending rules!
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In fact I view it as the Vista of RPG, I'll give them a year or two to work out the bugs!!!
Excellently and succinctly said!
I will be playing 3.5 until I finish my current game (will end sometime in Spring 08) and then will run either AoW or ST. That will definately take me into 2009. I will probably buy and playtest the 4e books at some point and will follow Paizo with my subscription dollars because I feel the change is inevitable, but I am not in any rush to move in that direction. When I do move (and bring my 7 players with me), I will have a nice backlog of 4e stuff from my favorite publisher and if 4e disintegrates and we fall back to a 3.75e, then I will move in that direction instead.
What edition of D&D do you currently expect to be playing at the end of 2008?
(Note: You may change your vote at any time!)
No doubt here, 3.5 from here on out for our group. I'm just hoping that Pathfinder, and now Kobold Quarterly, will be there with me!
I'll probably check out the SRD for 4.0 when it is available, but our group doesn't want to learn new rules now.
For reference, our group is full of 30-somethings and play about once a month...
I don't expect to be playing 4E at all it will more likely 4.999 by the time they get it right! The group I DM for are the target audience for WOTC and they are already hostile to them. They save their money to buy the books and now WoTC want them to spend again. my group already no way. They're happy and I am too. Paizo give me 3.5 till death us do part.
I strongly expect to be playing a very house ruled 3.5 by this time next year.
What edition of D&D do you currently expect to be playing at the end of 2008?
3.6 (3.5 heavily houseruled). i might incorporate stuff from 4e, but for now, 3.6 works. :-)
messy
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It was a toss up between "I go where Paizo goes" and "The jury is still out". What system I use is fairly irrelevant to me. I'm looking for story, plot, monsters, and situations to throw at the PCs. Aside from monsters, little of that matters what system I use (and monsters can be converted/rewritten).
Maybe I shouldn't say "irrelevant" -- the system still needs to work well, but I feel that it is secondary to other aspects of the game.
I'm looking forward to D&D 4e. What? I like new things. I changed the mines of a lot of '2nd editions fo' lyphers" seven years ago. I bet I can do it again next year for "3rd edtion fo' lyphers".
It was a toss up between "I go where Paizo goes" and "The jury is still out". What system I use is fairly irrelevant to me. I'm looking for story, plot, monsters, and situations to throw at the PCs. Aside from monsters, little of that matters what system I use (and monsters can be converted/rewritten).
Maybe I shouldn't say "irrelevant" -- the system still needs to work well, but I feel that it is secondary to other aspects of the game.
I'm with Moff here.
I voted "I go where Paizo goes", not to kiss their backsides.. but I honestly only started to run DnD again after 18 years because they have quality background setting.
3.5 works. I plan on finishing Runelords and starting Crimson Throne. That's pretty much logically where I'm going to be until the end of 2008.
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3.6 (3.5 heavily houseruled). i might incorporate stuff from 4e, but for now, 3.6 works. :-)
messy
Same here. 3.5 with a boatload of variant rules and house rules. I'll take a look at the 4.0 SRD to see if there's something worth prying and retro-fitting.
But I'll stick with 3.5 for quite some time.
Some variation of v.3.5, with house rules of course.
I like 3.5, sure there are bugs, there will always be something that is not fixed until it comes up in your game.
Regardless though, I am going to follow Paizo. I really don't like the idea of 4.0 and what it seems to represent, but if I am sticking with 3.5 and Paizo moves up, then I will have lost access to a source of wonderfully varied materials and sources that I have come to depend on.
Even when I am not using an adventure or anything else out of a Dungeon or Dragon, I still use them for inspiration.
-A horror-based Styes game, inspired by Mr. Pett and the wonderful game James Keegan is running, done that, I'm doing that now.
-The awesomely evil Pathfinder goblins...I'm going to move to Pathfinder and Golarion here in a bit I think, but for now...Imported for my game.
All kinds of other stuff too. I can't even begin to list them all.
I will follow Paizo.
I'll probably start ROTRL in Dec/Jan. Then I plan on running at least 2 more 3.5 campaigns. If my group changes to 4.0 it'll probably be years from now.
I will be running a 3.5 edition game sometime next year. I will get the 4.0 edition rules, if only so I can play in other peoples games, but that is it. All of my other friends who play D & D have a fortune in 3.5 material just like me. ~shrugs~ Why change what isn't really too terribly broken?
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Paizo has my trust and my gaming money for the foreseeable future, however, even if Paizo switches to 4.0, I will be sticking with 3.5 until at least early 2009 and more likely towards mid-2009. I will be checking out the SRD for 4.0 though to make the decision, follow the messageboards to hear some trusted reviews of the system and see if I can come to grips with how WotC has treated us old "grognards".
I will only switch if Paizo does though.
FH
If this is about what to do with your 3rd AP, i'll still be on RotRL in the fall despite the fact I'm ripping through campaign right now faster than a monkey through peaches. I would like to wait long enough to get an updated version of 4.0 (ie. 4.5).
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At the end of 2008? I will still likely be playing 3.5.
I plan to give 4e a look when it comes out. But I don't plan on runing any immediate games using 4e. So I would be fine with Pathfinder staying 3.5 for a while, expecially if the 4e OGL is only shared at the last minute.
(Feels like WotC is running behind schedule - moved back the release date of the player's handbook. It also feels like maybe they will not be sharing an OGL like they did with 3.5...)
Well, I'd be influenced by the direction Paizo takes, it's true. However, I really like 3.5 and would like to stick with it as long as possible; 4e will have to more or less blow my socks off to convince me to switch. Regardless, I continue to have no play group at the moment, so I'm not playing anything. I hope to whatever powers may be that the situation will be fixed after two long years by 2008, in which case I plan to be playing AoW, and very much using 3.5 (and thus it recieves my vote).
Ok - I'm seeing the poll results but I haven't voted - how do I vote in this poll?
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What edition of D&D do you currently expect to be playing at the end of 2008?
(Note: You may change your vote at any time!)
I have no intention of converting to 4e. I have enough 3.5 product for many years of gaming. I am currently DMing a group through Shackled City (we just started Flood Season). After that I intend to start the first Pathfinder AP. I would support a Paizo 3.75, but I will not purchase any 4e products unless a full 3.5 conversion is included.
You can vote in this poll on the left-hand side of this page or the front page of the paizo.com site.
Thank you, Mr. Eye, for leading the blind mage....
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I will be voting for 3e. By the end of 2008 is probably too soon for me to convert anyway, Not because 'you have to pry the books from my cold dead hands' I will examine 4e but doubt I will change (if I do) in the first 6 months it is out.
I will be playing 1e, maybe some 2e, 3.5, and likley some 4e... along with select other game systems... shrug... it will be more or less as it is now with the addition of 1 more system.
Fourth Edition.
That doesn't mean I won't still be using Pathfinder, even if Paizo isn't able to convert or chooses not to - after all, I realised that I could easily turn "The Skinsaw Murders" into a story for Mage: The Awakening (and may still do so, even if I run Rise of the Runelords as a D&D game), so converting between Third Edition and Fourth won't be that hard!
I voted for 3E but not because I think it's the end-all be-all. I am just really cautious and slow about buying stuff. Unless I see a PHB for some ridiculously low price, I won't be buying any new edition until the dust clears.
I voted for 3.5 due to that being the edition I want and hope to be playing . . . . but considering I'll be dropping close to $250 for the core books on june sixth . . . oh well.
Where my gaming group goes . . . I must follow. Considering they all want to order their books from amazon.com to get a cheaper price and order in a bulk to save in shipping . . .
As a DM, I'll be running something entirely different. I vowed to never run D&D again, and I never will.
I do, however, foresee me in a/some 4e campaigns in the future as our core group converts immediately. That means I will only purchase the PHB.
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Wow, thanks for the poll, Paizo!!
My group is going to finish our SCAP w/ Aow (modified homebrew --3.5) in about a month. Then we will run a new campaign using a gaming system I and my Undergraduate group developed back in the mid 90s. When 3.0 came out I was working on my PHD and I started a group in Philly using our old Undergraduate gaming model but with a d20 revamp (instead of White Wolf's d10).
Starting Dec 07 I am going to teach this method to my current group and play test it with some ideas that have been floating in my evil DM brain. Meanwhile, another group has asked me to DM for them and I may teach it to them.
So, by the end of 08 I will be playing a heavily modified "d20" homebrew system. It is more homebrew than d20.
-W. E. Ray
Jury's still out. Need more information. But ultimately, I'll follow Paizo.
All of the above?
