Dungeons & Dragons and 4th Edition
4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons is not a new topic on the web. Some sites already have unofficial 4th Edition D&D pages. It’s been about seven years since the release of 3rd edition and 3.5 has been with us now for about four. But is it time for 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons?
The “Abyssal Maw” said this about 4th Edition at “D&D Experience”, the convention once known as “Winter Fantasy”:
“It’s a long ways away. You’ll get an announcement when that happens, but it’s a long ways away. We have a lot of good stuff coming out through 2008.”
Well, I guess we can still speculate when that long way might be. Until then we sit around the table and try to make the game better for ourselves. But our theories and tweaks are often flawed and lack any solid play-testing. But I think that we might just be trying to rejuvenate the game for ourselves. After a while we seem to get bored with the game as it is. The rule supplements that Wizards of the Coast publishes, such as the Complete Scoundrel, or the Complete Mage, help to
sedate some of us while others sit back and wonder when the Complete Rogue and the Complete Wizard will be out since we already got the Complete Adventurer and the Complete Arcane. It feels as though the material is getting a white wash and a few enhancements but it’s still the same ol’ same ol’.
So I think it’s time for 4th Edition D&D. We need to shake it up again. WotC needs to improve upon their work, which in my opinion was an improvement from the 2nd Edition. They’re on the right track with 3rd Edition but after seven years of play-testing I think we’ve collected enough data see what’s working and what could be improved. Do you agree?
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December 27th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
It’s sad to think that the whole 3rd ed phenomena was merely gathering info, play-testing for the next edition. I only came into D&D after 3rd ed was realesed so I don’t really know taxing drastic changes in new editions can be. 3 to 3.5 was more of a tightener of loopholes in the rules I thought, I have trouble imagining what it will be like in 4th edition, perhaps it will be more streamlined for easier conversion into a D&D MMORPG.
The possibilty that the gaming table could be converted into an ethereal platform rather than a corporeal structure at which we sit is exciting to think about. Perhaps the only thing that might change is players bringing their portable laptops to a gaming table rather than their heavy and expensive harcover books.
January 14th, 2008 at 6:49 am
definitevly agree