tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6792039121162822569.post3602333034368920104..comments2023-02-11T08:08:44.091-08:00Comments on Writing, Game Design, World Domination: Reactions to 4EDarrin Draderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14852453294474595386noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6792039121162822569.post-26081316156475834272009-03-26T19:45:00.000-07:002009-03-26T19:45:00.000-07:00I think you are right on about 4th edition. I thin...I think you are right on about 4th edition. I think I might even like it as a sort of hero quest or table top dungeon crawl game. Being a WOW player I could actually see how this could be a fun table top mini game. Just not happy with calling it D&D. During the d20 hay day I mostly played GURPS and missed the first round. Now though more and more I find myself playing off shoot OGL systems. True20, modern20, and pathfinder. I'm So much more impressed with what 3rd company publishers are doing with it than WOTC ever did. <BR/><BR/>Iv enjoyed your true20 products and look forward to seeing some more products in the future.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6792039121162822569.post-26503278616199569502009-01-17T15:50:00.000-08:002009-01-17T15:50:00.000-08:00I've never played World of Warcraft and personally...I've never played World of Warcraft and personally don't understand why anyone would want to spend hours on end it. In my opinion, it and games like it aren't even really RPGs. Sure, they have similar mechanics, but oftentimes players don't actually role play, which in my mind is one of the greatest benefits of pen and paper games. I also don't think I would like playing a game where the majority of your adventures involve killing X amount of a certain creature.<BR/><BR/> Last year I tried to get some of my friends in college to play a game of Dungeons and Dragons Third Edition. Interestingly enough, the only one who had no interest in playing was the one who played World of Warcraft.<BR/><BR/> I started playing Dungeons and Dragons several years ago with Third Edition. One of my friends in high school had the Player's Handbook with him one day and let me look at it. Soon after I rolling up my first character, as Half-Elf Monk. After playing for a while I decided to start running my own game.<BR/><BR/> Since then I had spent a lot of money on supplement books, Dragon and Dungeon magazines, and issues of Pathfinder. When Fourth Edition was announced, I planned to stick with Third because I felt that I hadn't used the material I'd bought enough. I looked to Pathfinder to see if it would fix some of the problems I had with the game.<BR/><BR/> That said, I bought the Fourth Edition books a week after first perusing them in the bookstore. Many of the problems with Third Edition that Pathfinder tried to fix with band-aids were more properly dealt with in Fourth Edition. Fighters can do more than attack or full attack; Wizards don't have to resort to pulling out a crossbow; many different types of the same kind of monster make adding class levels unnecessary; creating brand new monsters is more along the lines of "What abilities should it have?" and less "Did I calculate their BAB correctly?";combat goes faster and no one character type hogs the spotlight; etc.<BR/><BR/> I can understand why longtime DnD players are upset with the changes made in Fourth Edition. It's a drastic difference. At the same time, I've also read comments from First and Second Edition enthusiasts who claim that Third Edition lacks the spirit of DnD, saying that the game is too easy and lacks truly threatening scenarios such as reaching into a statue's mouth and being destroyed by an Orb of Annihilation. <BR/><BR/> I'm a young un', so I'll never fully understand the feelings of the longtime Dungeons and Dragons fans who feel alienated by Fourth Edition. I'm also a bit strange in that although I greatly prefer Fourth Edition, I feel bad whenever a longtime DnD fan says that it isn't truly Dungeons and Dragons. <BR/><BR/> I'm lost to Third Edition as I've gotten my fill of it, but I'm interested in playing a Second Edition game to see what its like. Who knows? Maybe if I do I'll see the light and discover that Fourth Edition isn't Dungeons and Dragons.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00382600731039873403noreply@blogger.com