Comments on: There’s only one reason to switch to D&D4E (video)

By: ShortStraw

ShortStraw — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:56:02 +0000

Not going to play 4th going to play pathfinder. All characters operate in an essentially identical manner which I find rather limiting – hell even wow offers more options for class mechanics (rage + energy + mana). As for 3rd and 3.5 being a powergamers paradise well obviously you have never heard of the word no. It is a simple word that allows the DM to keep things in control but more importantly keeps them making sense.

By: Nightmare

Nightmare — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:49:28 +0000

i dont plan on switching to DnD 4…..i wanna play a roleplaing game not a tabletop game.
3.0 is a roleplaying game
4.0 is so clearly a tabletop game.
im not going to buy a whole bunch of usless figures just because most new gamers can imagine what a dragon looks like.
if i wanna play a board game ill play Hero Quest

By: Overfiend_87

Overfiend_87 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:53:22 +0000

I perfer sticking with the group I’m in with 3.5 edition. It’s better imo and I don’t like the idea of having classed “Balanced” and using “balanced” encounters. Just making things balanced makes it hard to believe in that world. It would be as if accidents and deaths never happened to innocents, but happened to those who did terrible things which all together keeps the world “Balanced.” sory of like Karma on Steroids.

I’m sure you all know what I meant when you fear more for you’re characters life if you go against something new that you havn’t fought before rarther than having something balanced so that you know you can beat it.

By: Name Level

Name Level — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:35:02 +0000

Two things:

1. 4e may be a great game. But at this point, it is so far removed from the D&D tradition that it might as well be renamed. If it isn’t core D&D, then don’t call it D&D.

2. This constant revision is just one of several signs that WOTC has taken what should have gone down as a game of tradition and turned it into a collectibles game. I used 1e sourcebooks for over a decade. Since 3e, we haven’t yet gone four years without a major upgrade. This plus the countless supplements, and it’s no surprise that the makers of Magic: The Gathering have been at the helm. I’m an adult. I like buying a game and playing the hell out of it for years. Someday I want to play the same game with my son that I played years in the past. The greatest games ever invented – Chess, Go, Poker, Monopoly, Risk – when is the last time they’ve undergone a rules update? WOTC has combined the collectibles model with the software/video game model to create a constant money suck. Good business, but in the end bad for the integrity of a game that once had an unshakable tradition. Like I said, nothing against 4e as a stand-alone system, but with each new edition D&D’s identity becomes less and less distinguishable.

By: Jahre

Jahre — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:39:22 +0000

Hey you guys, I’m a DM from Denmark how have tried some 4e and me and my player agreed that 4e in a way don’t bring that many things that we like… I mean the 3,5e have a lot more books and there by possibilities. Second a lot of us have personal feelings about the still in 3,5. Like the time I looked at what they had done to my beloved devil’s I was on the brink of crying…. and i must agsay that 4e is just to much a hack and slash game some of my new players like it for being simpel, in my eye’s it’s to simpel..

So for my gaming group it’s still 3,5 that will rule….

Good gaming for DM Jahre Denmark