I am Jack's complete lack of surprise

[mrteapot]

Wizards of the Coast announced 4th edition D&D at GenCon.

Which shouldn't be too surprising. Several of the recent supplements have had the same "trying out a lot of crazy stuff" that you got in late 2nd ed stuff, when they were creating 3rd edition.

What makes me interested is this article with an (unsourced) claim that "Concepts for 4th

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[scholarinexile]

Honestly, I'm not terribly enthused about this. I sort of like 3.5 as constructed, and while it's not perfect (hence my house rules), I feel like it works well enough, and offers enough flexibility within the system that there's not really a need for a new-edition level overhaul. I suspect that the "4th edition" may be something along the lines of codifying the mechanics from non-core books that have become de facto parts of the core system...things like swift and immediate actions, spellcasting classes built on the model of the warmage and dread necromancer, the recent tweaks to polymorphing, making the warlock a core class (it's proven popular enough that I rather expect that) and combat mechanics along the lines of the "one use per encounter" maneuvers pioneered in ToB. If that's as far as the 4th edition goes, honestly, I'll be okay with that. Unless the new rules totally wow me, I'm somewhat disinclined to chuck everything for a new system at this point.

[little__one]

Honestly, I will never have the time nor the energy to convert WLD into something usable with a different system. So it will have to be completed in 3.5 or not at all. And gestalt, byt the very nature of the thing, is about using a bit of overpower rules to make the PCs Awesome, so unless something similar can be made with 4, it will probably also be finished out in 3.5. Other future endeavors will be based on the merits of the new system. And I wanna play Lacuna first anyway.

[mrteapot]

I have zero problem abandoning every D&D game we have in favor of Lacuna. Or a lot of other games, for that matter.

[little__one]

Here's my plan:
I will run a session of Lacuna just for you, establishing your pc for future sessions. I will then run an invite-only session of Lacuna on a Saturday night, during which your pc will be the official group leader. From feedback on that, we can decide to make Lacuna an ongoing game or move to something else.

[mrteapot]

Sounds like a good plan to me.