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Last week, we presented the nominations for Best YouTube of the Year, and had you select your favorites. And the winner is… COLLEGE SAGA! Congratulations to Mark Leung for creating such an awesome video and sharing it with the world. Second place went to the hilarious and oft-quoted 300 Rated PG. To those of you who did not vote, I still encourage you to check out all the nominees- the poll entries link to each one so you can check them out.
GenCon seems to be the new place for publishers to announce their big new games. Fantasy Flight announced that they’re reprinting two classics: Cosmic Encounter and Dune (albeit without the actual Dune license, rethemed to fit the Twilight Imperium universe.)
But of course, nothing could come close to overshadowing the announcement of Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition. Like certain other sequels, it has been met with a mix of excitement and snark, with some fans proclaiming doom and others proclaiming the next big thing. There are those who don’t trust anything Wizards does (especially those who felt ripped off by the release of 3.5), but the market has spoken that gamers will pay for all new books every 4-5 years, and in the words of D&D’s former brand manager, not making new editions is like leaving money sitting on a table.
But as always, we here at Critical Hits are on hand to take the pulse of the industry. Knowing what little we do about the new edition, just based on your gut reaction to the announcement:
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10 Responses to “Inquisition of the Week: D&D 4e Reaction”
Posted: Aug 20th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Is that the official announced/released cover? I really loved the clever covers they used for 3e and I’m interested to see where they’re going with the books aesthetically. Thankfully it looks like they are using WAR a lot, which is always a good idea!
Posted: Aug 20th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
I think they’re subject to a little change, but I’m sure it’s pretty darn close. The other covers are here, about 2/3 the way down:
http://www.enworld.org/index.php?page=4e
I know that they are doing full page artwork covers again, and dropping the “magic textbook” look of all the 3.x books.
Posted: Aug 20th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
While it is an inside joke, I was expecting some sort of “Sometimes it’s just good to get back to basics” option for the poll. As an aside, what’s the rough-estimate for a release date for the PHB/MM/DMG?
Posted: Aug 20th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
B. D. & D.!
Pain in Campain.
Imagine a world without psionics.
Dakka Dakka Dakka.
Posted: Aug 20th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
I’m psyched…but I’ll probably nly be buying the corebooks…then pirating others as I tend to do…
The Macbook is all I need…
Posted: Aug 20th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
O: Yeah, I missed the back to basics joke…
The PHB launches May of next year, DMG month after, MM month after that.
Posted: Aug 21st, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Are they redoing the licensing thing?
Posted: Aug 21st, 2007 at 3:51 pm
They’re now saying flat out that there will be an Open Gaming License and System Reference Document for D&D4e, meaning that anyone can produce material for D&D still. It *sounds* like there will be an option offered by Wizards to the “best” producers of such content to have the actual D&D logo slapped on their products for a fee, but that’s more of a branding issue than a producing content issue.
Posted: Aug 27th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
[...] poll will continue through the week, asking you what you thought about the announcement of D&D 4th Edition, right now the majority seems to be cautiously optimistic which in my opinion is the best way to [...]
Posted: Sep 3rd, 2007 at 10:52 pm
[...] Our poll is now closed, and as expected, most of you will wait to see what D&D 4e is like before deciding to shell out or not. In a closer second than I expected are those of you who were swayed by my cunning arguments about why it’s going to be awesome. Then in third: those of you who are worried about being blindsided by a new edition too soon and unwilling to lay out the cash right away to keep it from the greedy corporation. [...]
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