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12 months ago ::
Jun 23, 2012 - 4:14AM
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Dear 4e Fans,
It seems the death of our lovely edition is near and from the looks of it is growing rapidly closer. Look at our 4e forums, they are already dying gown we have posts from 6 and 7 days ago. On the first Page! It inevitable that this Is going to happen, 4e will be a but a memory to these old forums. So I am here to say, it is our duty as the fans, to not give in on 4e. This is the day and age of the OGL! There is no reason to switch editions simply because it's not officially supported any more. Look at 3.5 players and Pathfinder... Could 4e have a game like that? Sure why not? Essentially all it is names of monsters, spells, and feats, and some attacks changed. Though I already know of a couple games/clones trying to do this, they seem to move a little farther away from 4e the more they are developed than I would like. All pre-3e games have a place to call home over at Dragonsfoot, 3e has Private Sanctuary and multiple good blogs. So, shouldn't 4e? Wouldn't it be nice to have a place to discuss 4e in place were flame wars and personal attack risks are low? A place where 4e can get 3rd party support, and have fan made adventures for download? A place like this doesn't need to exist, it has to exist. SO what do you say? What are we, the fans of 4e going to do do make 4e's life permanent?
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.” - H. P. Lovecraft Games I Play: - D&D 4e - D&D 3.5 - AD&D 2e - Pathfinder - Call of Cthulhu
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12 months ago ::
Jun 23, 2012 - 5:02AM
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Date Joined:
Jun 13, 2008
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One place already working is frothsof's 4e blog, with an e-zine in the works, frothsof4e.blogspot.com/
Old School meets New School at http://community.wizards.com/retrogamingvtgroup
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12 months ago ::
Jun 23, 2012 - 4:13PM
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here Here! I still play 2nd Ed Star Wars because, darn it, WEG rules were greatly better than WotC's (plus they aren't infected by the prequels). So let us keep 4th Ed alive. (but kill Essentials!  )
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For some reason, none of my friends were surprised by this...
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12 months ago ::
Jun 23, 2012 - 6:57PM
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Date Joined:
Sep 19, 2007
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So let us keep 4th Ed alive. (but kill Essentials! )
Let's stop the hate. Not all of Essentials was bad, and it does provide a much needed breadth of complexity across 4E. Essentials can be integrated painlessly or ignored just as painlessly by any 4E campaign.
Edit: (fixing odd sentence structure) Let's give 4E a graceful exit and put an end to the pointless infighting.
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12 months ago ::
Jun 23, 2012 - 7:10PM
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Date Joined:
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As much as I consider Essentials the killing blow of 4e (and yet mor proof that D&D's marketing department is horrible) I have to say I have to thank essentials for making custom class (or subclass) assmbly easy.
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12 months ago ::
Jun 23, 2012 - 7:32PM
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You might want to check out Fourth Party.
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12 months ago ::
Jun 23, 2012 - 9:45PM
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Date Joined:
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Contining to play the Fourth Edition and getting others to play it is one important thing.
Since I live far away in Korea (and am surrounded by Pathfinder or Old School enthusiasts) I have resorted to on-line roleplaying. Google+ Hangout is one terrific tool for this: no subscription required. Although I do subscribe to the Dungeons & Dragons Insider, I cannot persuade my friends to do so, nor woudl I expect beginning players to make such a commitment.
Member of Grognards for 4th Edition
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12 months ago ::
Jun 23, 2012 - 10:35PM
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You might want to check out Fourth Party.
I've been a member for a couple of months now.
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.” - H. P. Lovecraft Games I Play: - D&D 4e - D&D 3.5 - AD&D 2e - Pathfinder - Call of Cthulhu
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12 months ago ::
Jun 24, 2012 - 12:26AM
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One place already working is frothsof's 4e blog, with an e-zine in the works, frothsof4e.blogspot.com/
I might take that site more seriously when Frothsof starts using capital letters properly in his sentences.
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12 months ago ::
Jun 24, 2012 - 2:15AM
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Two things: 1. Editions will never die, and neither will the wars associated with them. 2. I find that 13th Age is D&D 4E's spiritual successor, and thus am preparing to switch over to it  Until I can acquire a copy though, I have already created a 4E/13th Age hybrid system, taking what is already available online and tweaking 4E to fit that system I may end up getting a copy of Savage Lands and a few other TRPGs to complement 13th Age and 4E though That said, I feel that unlike previous editions, 4E never really got to get its full potential, especially considering how previous editions got modified halfway around the world almost from the onset, whereas 4E barely gets modded, so while every group has their own version of an older system, 4E groups have barely scratched the houseruling area... ... even when just about everyone knows that's where the real magic of a game comes out Then again, 4E is really that good and solid a system anyway, at least IMHO :p
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