MrWaeseL at [unixtime wrote:1187354039[/unixtime]]Do you guys think there will be a 4.5?
There will be a major overhaul of the basic rules partway through before they call it fifth edition. But that's nothing new. Dungeons and Dragons had the original pamphlets, the Greyhawk rules, Red Box Rules, and Blue Box rules - all of which were basically unplayable with one another. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons underwent the Unearthed Arcana overhaul which made the game unrecognizable. 2nd Edition AD&D had the original, the "Revised Rules", the "Player's Options: Skills and Powers" rules, and those things were completely unplayable together. The 3rd edition made a "3.5" that was designed by different people and was only nominally playable with the original.
So do I think that they wll attempt to resell the core books during 4th edition by making a slightly different version that makes you get the core books again? Hellz yeah I do! They've done that for all four previous editions of the game. Hell, on the face of it, "4th edition" is actually the fifth named edition of D&D. It's more like the thirteenth distinct edition of the game in any real sense of the term. Of course they'll throw a couple of curve balls in there to sell more books.
Do you think the designers designed monster under flawed assumptions like in 3e and need to come back to them at some point in the future?
Yes. Do you think that will be the
reason that they redseign shit? Absolutely not.
virgileso wrote:And now I contemplate the idea of 4e being leaked and getting a real idea of whether to even consider this system, as anything they put out in preparation is going to be some of the most biased and spin-factored crap out there.
Really? Because I could tell from the 3.5 preview spin-doctoring that they had a pile of poop on a platter.
Haste,
Harm, and
Hold? Are you fvcking kidding me?
In this write up, the only thing they seemed to learn is that Polymorph is bad and warriors need maneuvers. But it still seems like they are going to trot out warriors as Diablo II characters (I am a Jabazon, so I have multi-thrust), while Wizards are still probably playing Battlefield Artillery.
-Username17