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Topic: D&D 4.0 Discussion
Subject: I tried it and well 4.0 is the New Coke!!!!
Hello everyone from Huntington Beach Ca.
I've been reading the thread on 3.5 versus 4.0. As a new return to D&D after 15+ years away,well I was shocked at the changes.
I played 1st edition AD&D and D&D anyone who's been around will understand. In fact what has changed is the way D&D is played it is becoming more of a tabletop game then role playing. I play table top games at the Game and Hobby day 2nd Sat of every month(Mini Convention) in Anaheim Ca. There we Play Battletech,Star fleet Battles,Flames of War and more.
Well one weekend my Daughter 11 was introduced to AD&D and begged me to buy D&D which is the boxed set Basic for 3.5 . What a dramatic change some of it was good. Some of it stinks. But what I noticed now is the that it resembles a Board game more now. Also 3.5 wow so many new things it was overwhelming. Lucky for me I have a good 3.5 DM in Long Beach at the Game Store the WarHouse teaching me.
I had to admit that at first I didn't like the changes but some how I feel 3.5 has some neat ideas . But I miss Role Playing vs Roll Playing I get enough of that in BattleTech.
SO in the spirit of trying to be open I tried 4.0 and OMG I felt like at 41 I was being asked to play like a kid in a PC game. It left me with such a bad feeling and my wife hates it as she loves a story based thinking game,solve the mystery see how the plot runs the course etc. She won't ever play again. So I decided to get out all my remaining books I had dust them off buy some on E bay what I had lost and Run AD&D 1st edition and D&D Basic edition .
In fact I will be running the Original Keep on the Borderlands.
Now with that all said I think D&D will evolve even more into camps AD&D players,D&D, D&D 3.5 and 4.0 for the kids.
It is just a matter of what you want Heck we are writing about this already at the OCRPG yahoo group I run and the Orange County Meet-up site. As far as I see WOTC has just splintered the D&D Role Playing and Roll Playing camps even farther apart.
But hopefully in time things will find balance and those who own ther own stuff will save money. Or then maybe we can all hide our heads in the sand and pretend WOTC really cares about our RPG and isn't in for the money.
Posted on 2008-06-24 at 09:34:02.
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