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JonestheSpy
2008-11-23, 03:10 PM
Don't know if this has ever been mentioned. Just want to say, god damn I friggin hope not.

Got a huge kick in strip #1 when everyone converted from 3E to 3.5, and I can see lots of humor potential from making the characters adapt again, but I think I'd hate it. Two reasons:

1) Everything I've seen in previews and heard from folks about it make me think 4E just sucks big time, utterly dumbing it down to appeal to computer gamers who couldn't be bothered to learn complicated rules and want their characters to act like Conan at 1st level.

2) So much of the humor is based on the intricacies of 3.5 physics. No way I'm going to be absorbing the details of yet another rules system to, so the jokes would just fly by me.


Little comments lie Haley's dad being a first edition thief make me a little anxious that our little 3.5 world will be taken away. Has this possibility ever come up before?

Istari
2008-11-23, 03:13 PM
No
News (http://www.giantitp.com/index.html) 5/20/08

Zeful
2008-11-23, 03:14 PM
Look at the news for 5/20/2008. You'll get your answer.

As for the rest. I disagree. That is all.

MReav
2008-11-23, 03:24 PM
I think there was a post that stated that anyone who brought this up would have his or her kidneys harvested by Belkar.

Hydro Globus
2008-11-23, 03:37 PM
No.

As for the rest, I agree. Strongly.

chiasaur11
2008-11-23, 03:45 PM
Man, been a while since we had this kind of thread.

And, as others have said, the answer is no. And just as well.

Mauve Shirt
2008-11-23, 03:47 PM
This came up sooo much months ago.

NerfTW
2008-11-23, 04:44 PM
utterly dumbing it down to appeal to computer gamers who couldn't be bothered to learn complicated rules and want their characters to act like Conan at 1st level.

Ah, the gaming heirarchy:

Everyone else on the planet
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LARPers

Hydro Globus
2008-11-23, 04:53 PM
What do you mean "Everyone else on the planet"? They are somewhere between computer and console players :D

Also, (just one example:) if paragon paths don't scream talent trees for you, you obviously don't know what Blizzard is...

(No, I'm not gonna bring up another example. This forum is not for this kind of discussions.)

JonestheSpy
2008-11-23, 05:29 PM
Glad to hear it's a no go. Thought it it probably been discussed before, but didn't feel like searching all the archives. and dissing 4E is always worth a couple of minutes.

Roland St. Jude
2008-11-23, 05:44 PM
No
News (http://www.giantitp.com/index.html) 5/20/08

Sheriff of Moddingham: Indeed. And starting threads or posting just for "dissing 4E" is a bad idea on the GitP board.