In article <Xns9A181B7803BCBDragonFyre@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
FlameStryke@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> Draco18s <draco18s2_NO_@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
> news:MPG.21e26190dabb0ae3989c5b@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> >> 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
Ha, I doubt it.
> > 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.
I don't know enough about the Star Wars system to talk about it in any
great
length.
> >> 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.
No worries.
--
Draco18s
DC2.Dw Gm L- W- T Phvwalt Sks Cag^ Bco|# A- Fr++ Nu M--- O H+ $ Fo R+++
Ac+ J+
S+ I-# V++ Q++ Tc+++[C++]/Tc--- E+
"Yum!" |> v-v-v-v |>
| , , .|. | n | .|.
'. |_/| | |'''''''''''| | \
(q p),-| | HERSHEY'S | |'-._ ))
/_(/ | | CHO|"|LIT | | ) '-.___//
---W"W----'-'----'-'----'-'----------'--------------
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bearer of the Bronze Medal for Most Posts in March 2007 (283)
|
