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[featherynscale]

Soooo.... D&D 4th edition. triadruid asked me this morning, "So they said they'd make it simpler than 3.x. How much simpler could they possibly make it?". I couldn't let it rest, I had to find out.

As it turns out, in the Brave New World, apparently, one's choices of character class will be limited to four, with variants: a tank sort, a healing sort, a ranged weapons sort, and magic-using sort. Apparently, if you would like to know more, you could watch this video. (Disclaimer: I haven't done so yet, but will probably check it out later. I took the above assessment from the general feeling of the D&D board at wizards.com, which one has to subscribe to a service for now... when did that happen?)

Anyway. I don't imagine we'll convert any time soon. Aside from the general ...meh... factor, I own too many 3.x books.

And all of this doesn't answer the most burning D&D question currently on my mind: Why the hell do rangers even get spells? Where does their magic come from? (In most campaign settings, this probably wouldn't make a bit of difference, but in mine it will. Feh. Why can't we just build a medieval-fantasy-britain-world with wizards and dragons and nobody asks why anything exists in the way it does? You know, like everyone else does.)

Comments

[celtic-elk.livejournal.com]

True confessions time: I stopped buying D&D rulebooks back in the 2nd Edition days. I've been much more interested lately in urban-fantastic settings (the White Wolf games and Shadowrun, for example). I read Order of the Stick, though, which really tells me everything I need to know about more recent incarnations of the game. =)

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I enjoy urban fantasy, but I picked up an irrational fear of GMing anything with guns at some point, so we play lower-tech than that. :)

I'd like to play some Shadowrun at some point, though. I've picked up the book several times and utterly failed to grasp some of the rules, primarily the magic system.

[celtic-elk.livejournal.com]

In keeping with my "hi, I'm an out-of-date gamer!" theme, my only experience with Shadowrun has been with the 1.0/2.0 rules, so I may not be all that much help. It's an interesting setting, but combat resolution can take *forever*. (This was *not* helped by the fact that our campaign played about once every six months, and was largely made up of non-gamer-geek players.)

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think I have the Shadowrun 2nd ed. book. I thought surely if I had the book in my home, I would be able to sort out how to play. No. And I have played other FASA product before, mind you. Totally different systems. *sigh*

[kittenpants.livejournal.com]

White Wolf? ::headdesk:: ...Wait, I think we've discussed that.

Ah, once we all have that transporter technology, we have to get our groups together for a steampunk/gaslight fantasy sort of game.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Totally. And I'll run that. Because, you know, guns, but guns what shoot lightning and whatnot. Unreliably. Warms the rusted cockles of my little clockwork heart.

Steampunk!

[auraseer.livejournal.com]

GURPS Girl Genius is under development and should be done Any Time Now.

GURPS isn't my favorite system, but I'd put up with it for a game full of Jagermonsters, death-rays, and clockwork clanks.

Re: Steampunk!

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

For the win!! (We played our first game of GURPS the other day, and found it madly complicated in setup but fairly manageable and fun in gameplay. And I would totally play a Girl Genius mod.)