D&D 4th?!
August 17, 2007 by Matt.
I don’t know how I feel about it, honestly.
The Pros:
- They can fix their issues. Fixing the grappling rules? Fighters getting things to do other than roll to-hit/damage? Whee!
- Getting access to stuff you buy online when you purchase the paper version is very tasty. No more scanning for yours truly, and hopefully it’s freakin’ searchable.
- A legitimate chargen program that hopefully won’t act/look like it came out of a monkey’s butt.
- A digital table that hopefully won’t…. etc etc.
Cons:
- Monthly fee for online content? For what, specifically?
- Whenever you touch something, you have a chance at breaking it. They’re going to touch polymorph and wildshape, but what exactly are they going to do to it?
- Actually, I’m still a bit nervous about the online thing. Online is for MMOs, PnP is for sitting at the table with friends.
- Buying more books. *grumble*
- The books are coming out in a staggered manner, which will bite horribly. PHB, then MM, then DMG.
- The idea of the SRD’s supposed to come with as well. Now some good things have come from letting anyone play in your sandbox, but there’s been some damn scary things out there too, and I’d rather see cheaper licensing and some quality control than everything becoming part of everyone.
Of course it’s all speculation until next May and like the little sheep I am I’ll probably buy the PHB at least, but I get this feeling that unless that book’s an orgasm on paper people will be a bit slow to switch.