Draco18s <draco18s2_NO_@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > Anyone else who's heard things, speak up, I'd like to hear your
>> > opinions.
>> My opinion is that I'll take a look at it (my DM is the official
>> Wizards of the Coast Rep for Calgary, so he'll have to get the books
>> to promote the system -- he's already got lots of promo material for
>> it) but I most likely won't change. I haven't even looked at the new
>> Star Wars Saga Edition (another money-grabber, IMO) which I hear 4e
>> is going to look like. I've got about $2000 invested in various d20
>> v3.5 books, if not more, and about $2500 invested in d20 v3.0 books.
>> Plus, all the things that are compatible with 3.0 and 3.5 but won't
>> work at all with 4e.
> Nothing wrong with that either. I however belong to a group that
> makes the college pay for all our books, so we've had them on
> pre-order for two months now.
Can you order books for me for free then, too?!? I'll pay for ****pping
to get them to me!! };=8Þ
> As for Star Wars, they used it as sort of a testing ground for what
> they were doing with 4E. SW was more complete, but the same ideas
> that happened in SW were feed to the 4E team and vice versa. Not that
> the systems are identical, but that they were trying to acheive the
> same end.
Well, the systems for Revised Star Wars and D&D 3.5 are the same. They
use different units of measure (rounding to 3 feet to the meter rather
than 3 1/3 for ease of calculation) but the mechanics are all the same.
And I say they should have stopped there, it was good enough for
everyone.
>> So, unless it's something so great that it completely blows my mind,
>> I'll stay with my 3.5. And I'm not holding my breath for that, since
>> the Book of Nine Swords, which was supposed to be their first 3.5/4e
>> cross-compatible reference book didn't do anything at all for me. I
>> didn't even pick it up for 3.5.....
> Book of Nine Swords ideas were actually cast of 4E ideas. Ones that
> didn't fit with what they wanted 4E to be (the card aspect), so they
> made them fit with 3.5
Still, not really impressed with it, so I'll bide my time and wait and
see.
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