So, after only 4 years

[skull_bearer]

Wizards of the Coast have packed it in, realised 4th ed will continue to stink like month-old salmon and announced a fifth edition. Am really rather pleased. 4th ed was to D&D what Vista was to Windows and the best thing to do is to go back to the winning formula and stop the 'we want to be Apple MMORG' thing that's just pissing money away.

Ps, My favourite system is in fact 2nd ed, but 3rd ed and 3.5 sold so many books its ridiculous, there were entire shelves of the things in my house. But for some reason WotC went, 'you know what, we'll scrap these hundreds of books that have been making us money from sheer variety, and start over with a massively limited system, firing the guys who wrote most of the last books, and now we're standing blankly staring at where our heaps of money used to be'.

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[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

Gary Gravlax

[johnnash.livejournal.com]

All of my geek friends have been rejoicing since this came down the pipeline (the announcement, not the 4th edition).

[delkaetre-ni.livejournal.com]

I think Pathfinder's sort of the 'proper' 4th Ed anyway - made people who actually worked on 3 and 3.5, used the open source rules and loads of community input, and came up with a super-refined version of D&D except not under the brand name. This is, at least, the impression I get from groups of people who play it.

I'm sticking with Chaosium's d100, though, until I hear strong reviews of the final version of 5th Ed. I don't like getting my hopes up.