UUuuugghhh, not another new version of D&D. This crap is exactly the reason I'm so down on playing. I spent a ton of money on AD&D 2nd Ed. stuff back in the mid 90's when I was playing a lot... then I took a few years off from playing, and when I looked at it again, v3.5 was out. Fine, I figured that was fair, a few years had gone by and 2nd ed was pretty dated.
But right after I spent another ton of money on v3 and v3.5 materials, they announce 4th edition! WTF?!? I resisted even touching that edition until last year when I caved in and bought a player handbook and rolled out a character for an impromptu game with a few friends one weekend. And now they want to roll out yet another new version?
Please... I know there's pressure to rev stuff in order to sell more copies of the core rulebooks, but WotC are - IMO - shooting themselves in the foot with the constant version changes. I'm sorry, but I'm not throwing out and replacing a big investment in D&D materials every 4 years or so.
Seriously Wizards, if you want more of my money, you'd be better served pushing out more material for an existing D&D version (preferably 3.5). Give us an updated Ravenloft campaign setting and related stuff, give us a modern Planescape, create entirely new realms (have you done anything completely new since Eberron?), etc.
I thought the last sentence of the NYT article was priceless- currently, the only way anyone is bringing D&D material to the table on an iPad is if they steal it, because Wizards still doesn't sell any core digital content (magazine articles and access to a rules website you can get for a monthly subscription, but no books)
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UUuuugghhh, not another new version of D&D. This crap is exactly the reason I'm so down on playing. I spent a ton of money on AD&D 2nd Ed. stuff back in the mid 90's when I was playing a lot... then I took a few years off from playing, and when I looked at it again, v3.5 was out. Fine, I figured that was fair, a few years had gone by and 2nd ed was pretty dated.
But right after I spent another ton of money on v3 and v3.5 materials, they announce 4th edition! WTF?!? I resisted even touching that edition until last year when I caved in and bought a player handbook and rolled out a character for an impromptu game with a few friends one weekend. And now they want to roll out yet another new version?
Please... I know there's pressure to rev stuff in order to sell more copies of the core rulebooks, but WotC are - IMO - shooting themselves in the foot with the constant version changes. I'm sorry, but I'm not throwing out and replacing a big investment in D&D materials every 4 years or so.
Seriously Wizards, if you want more of my money, you'd be better served pushing out more material for an existing D&D version (preferably 3.5). Give us an updated Ravenloft campaign setting and related stuff, give us a modern Planescape, create entirely new realms (have you done anything completely new since Eberron?), etc.
OK, rant over. :-)
I thought the last sentence of the NYT article was priceless- currently, the only way anyone is bringing D&D material to the table on an iPad is if they steal it, because Wizards still doesn't sell any core digital content (magazine articles and access to a rules website you can get for a monthly subscription, but no books)
I'd be absolutely willing to buy more 3.5e material.