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[jdotmi]

Why am I looking forward to 4th edition Dungeons and Dragons now? Seriously? At first I was all *blah*, then I read some changes and went "wtf?" then I read about the ass raping they're giving to the Forgotten Realms setting (which apparently Ed Greenwood isn't all happy with, but isn't exactly crying into his cereal over) and went "oh hell no" but then I put all the changes together and went "I could actually do something with this..."

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In other news, I'm at 1000/1000 gamerscore on Viva Piñata now. And Assassin's Creed is really fun.

That is all. For the moment.

Comments

Dare I ask?

[untitled42.livejournal.com]

What are they doing to Forgotten Realms? I have been a FR fan since I was 11. What are they doing to Faerun? It's like a second home to me. =(

Re: Dare I ask?

[jdotmi.livejournal.com]

Flash forwarding 100 years or so, Mystra died (again) but apparently didn't come back this time, Elminster vanished, wizards/mages everywhere went bezerk, many Planes and Gods were destroyed. The face of the land is heavily changed. They're making it the new default campaign setting, too. They're totally messing with the cosmology (buh bye great wheel, hello planar soup) and screwing with basically everything that made D&D D&D and Faerun is going to be "mysterious" and not so well documented again.

[blakesrealm.livejournal.com]

Despite my disinterest in pen-and-paper gaming right now I'm still curious about what it'll be when it comes out. So I'm sure that I'll be among the first batch of customers picking up a copy, out of morbid curiosity I guess.

I mean they have some talented developers working on the game, which gives me hope, but some of the ideas that have come out about it have me worried. Sounds like they're trying too hard to make D&D like a MMO.

[jdotmi.livejournal.com]

Some of it is just plain garbage. Gnomes are being obliterated, Drow are becoming Fey, Druids won't be a base class at launch and will be more shapeshifty, less casty. At the same time, they are making the classes much more dynamic to play from the sounds of it. And pulling Action Points from D20 Modern/Star Wars is excellent. I've been hoping for that for a while.

[kwsapphire.livejournal.com]

They're getting rid of gnomes. Gnomes were my favorite race. :(

[mat-t.livejournal.com]

To be fair, they haven't obliterated gnomes...they've just taken them out of the PHB as a PC race. There's nothing saying that they won't be in a future supplement, like the druid. I'm ambivalent thus far about the addition of dragonborn and tieflings as core races. Today I did something I didn't intend to...I bought the Wizards Presends: Races and Classes preview book. I was flipping through it in the store and found it interesting. I've read most of the meat in it on websites, but I was curious what the though process behind the changes were.

[jdotmi.livejournal.com]

They've flat out said they don't know what gnomes will be like for certain, but they expect something "pixyish", which in my mind is obliterating what gnomes have been in D&D for, basically, ever.

[jdotmi.livejournal.com]

They'll be coming out later, but they won't be the Gnomes we know.