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The new age has begun…

Written by The Game on Saturday, 7 June 200817 Comments

Out with the old, in with the new!

Now, back to reading the Monster Manual with me…

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Dave The Game is Dave Chalker, son of science fiction author Jack L. Chalker. In addition to being a semi-professional game designer Dave is the Editor-in-Chief of Critical Hits (which means he writes about everything.) Dave is also Executive Director of the RPG Bloggers Network. (Email Dave)

17 Comments »

  • The Chatty DM said:

    Fucking Awesome!

    The Chatty DMs last blog post..Playing 4e: Initial Thoughts

  • Reverend Mike said:

    The first thing I looked at when I opened the new MM was whether those images were compatible enough to be overlaid…I know realize just how long I’ve been coming here…

    Fucking awesome indeed…

    EDIT: YAY!…

  • The Game (author) said:

    Mwahaha, we have infected your brain!

    Bartoneus did both the old ’shop job and the new one, and was amazed at how easy they fit together in 4e. Like it was meant to happen.

  • Bartoneus said:

    Thanks for the props and compliments! I actually thought the 3rd Edition one was way easy too, they just seemed to merge together perfectly. The same for this one, but it’s a far more dynamic composition and that’s the big improvement.

    Rev.Mike: The infection only gets worse from here…

  • Krog said:

    I’m underwhelmed with the new edition at this point. I’ve read a lot of the PHB and played in a game. Lots of hype. Too much like a video game, too little like D&D.

  • The Game (author) said:

    Ah, Krog, you’re just bitter because I killed you off in my last 3.5 game :)

    I’ll have to do my best to change your mind. When I play 4e, it feels like D&D all the way.

  • Yax said:

    Gotta love umber-bulettes. The good thing about new books is all the new monster art. It’s always fun.

    Yax’s last post: Summer is here! (summer 08 preview and the links)

  • Reverend Mike said:

    4e seems to be feeling pretty meh to my players…probably cause we’re still working through Keep on the Shadowfell…I’m working to generate some excitement once I get my actual campaign going…

  • Bartoneus said:

    Looks like this has become an impromptu complain thread about 4E, so here goes:

    I’ve been struggling a LOT with the basic character sheet. You can list all of your powers on the back, but then there’s no room to write what they do and the front only provides a short list for attacks and I still can’t fully figure out the usefulness of the Attack / Damage workspaces.

    Am I missing something here? Hopefully D&DI releases a sheet creator that uses the power blocks from the PHB.

  • The Game (author) said:

    The character sheet folio is supposed to come with power cards, which should eliminate that problem. Once I get more toner for my printer, I’ll be making my own.

  • Graham said:

    Yeah, if they don’t release downloadable power cards soon, I’ll be firing up Illustrator as well.

    …or checking enworld. There’s probably some there.

    Graham’s last post: Final thoughts after marathon 4e release day events

  • The Game (author) said:

    If someone had access to, say, a PDF version of the file used to print the PHB, it’d be relatively easy to open the file in Illustrator and extract the power blocks (though there’d be some font weirdness.)

    Not that I would know or anything.

  • Graham said:

    While true, I’m much more interested in blank ones, customizable with whatever powers you have, including homebrew.

    Space for all the needed bits, of course. And sized to fit into a CCG sleeve, so you can write on it in wet-erase marker.

    Graham’s last post: Final thoughts after marathon 4e release day events

  • Hazard J Simpson said:

    Yeah, please use cards, Wizards wants that. They sell them.

    In fact, please fork over tons of cash for new crap for the new crap game. Wizards will love it.

    4E: Crappy game, poor design, obviously tired copy of Warcraft in lots of ways, struggling to come up with something new, and then actually using crap like CARDS to track crap that won’t fit on a sheet?

    Seriously, all the gamers out there who don’t see/understand what a sack of crap 4E is are the problem with the industry. Some people have NO standards when it comes to the shit they will buy, play, and slobber over endlessly. Seriously people, have some nuts and play a real ROLEPLAYING game, not a Diablo clone on paper.

  • The Game (author) said:

    Or maybe you’re the problem with the industry, endlessly ranting against a game you haven’t played, and calling it poor design without an understanding of what good game design is?

    Ah, and here I was thinking I’d get through a day without arguing about 4e…

  • Bartoneus said:

    Wait, I’m confused, you can roleplay for real?

  • Reverend Mike said:

    I’m pretty sure that’s called “multiple personality disorder”…

    Also, lame new commenter is LAME…

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