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D&D 4E When will 4E appear?
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Warp Demon
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Starman said:Don't forget the can opener.
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And the dice, can't forget the dice.
Warp Demon
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Telperion said:My guess is around 2009 or 2010.
Other than that: how about using the SRD 3.5, if you don't feel like giving some money for the actual books? I'm using the SRD pretty much whenever when I'm not at home, which seems to be all the time these days, and it works out quite nicely
Heh, I don't even have the 3E books. I'm kind of getting back into D&D after a long "vacation". Everything looks so different. I feel like I have woke up from a 10 year coma or something. So, I'm quite familiar with AD&D, just not 3E. Which is why I was sort of cautious.
The last time this topic came up, I know I said 2006-2007, with the reasoning behind that being that Hasbro, liking the CCG business model so much that it has applied it to D&D.MerricB said:
Also, there is the fact that 3.5 was originally scheduled to be released in 2005, but was moved up 2 years (3 years seems to be the cycle on M:tG). Now if 3.5 was due in 2005, it makes sense that 4.0 would be out in 2010. However, since 3.5 was released in 2003 (2 years ahead of schedule), that means that if 4.0 sticks with the original 5 year span that was scheduled between 3.0 and 3.5 you could it in 2008. However, since they cut two years off the time for 3.5, if they do the same to the development of 4.0, that makes 2006 the earliest you might see it.
Ealier this year, Charles Ryan (brand manager for D&D) was interviewed, and the interviewer asked about 4.0. Charles was slick though. He refused to comment on anything more than 18 months down the pike (which would be around the beginning of 2006), and basically gave "no comment" answers by side-stepping the question when asked in several different ways.
Now, no matter when 4.0 is coming out, don't expect any announcements until early in the year that it will be released (and expect it to be a GenCon release, like both 3.0 & 3.5) as they start ramping up for the new edition.
arche
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It's not even worth worrying about. I got the 3.5 for some reason, but I won't convert to another version until I'm really tired of this one. It's stable enough for me. 2.0 was driving me nuts and that's why I went on hiatus. I could have stuck with 3.0, but I succumbed to peer pressure . This time, I will not be tempted by a slick new cover!
. This time, I will not be tempted by a slick new cover!
Buzzardo
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arche said:
Ha. Me too. I played the daylights out of 1st edition. 2nd edition lost me completely. I literally didn't do much playing at all between 1991 and 2000. 3rd edition was for me the ultimate renaissance. I hated 2nd edition. How rare is that opinion I wonder? Are there many hard core 2nd edition fans?
Psion
Adventurer
Buzzardo said:
Not many, but I've seen them (primarily on WebRPG). The complaints are pretty much the same ones you here from 1e & odler Grognards (it's munchkin blah blah blah.)
Truth be told, I wasn't going to update to 3e, being happy with my highly house ruled 2e game world, and I didn't feel like porting it over.
But then I saw the Monster Manual and saw how much better the treatment of monsters was. The rest is history.
Fedifensor
Explorer
That's the reason WotC keeps the RPGA around. If you're playing an RPGA game, you'll have to convert when 4.0 comes out. They'll just dump any of the Living campaigns that don't convert. And it seems that RPGA games (like Living Greyhawk) had an explosion of popularity when 3.0 came out. I see a lot more people playing RPGA games than I ever did before D&D 3.0 hit the stores.arche said:
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