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| Bubba Ho-Tep |
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| The Gremlin |
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| jamesmay1983 |
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Not wanting to rain on the chicken brigade, but I have a beef with this idea.
I would prefer the focus be kept on d20 products because that is what I play. Maybe one article a year would be ok for other systems, or if something comes out that is just wonderful, as Hollow Earth Expedition and Rolemaster may be. |
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| Wolfgang |
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The focus WILL be on d20 products, because that's what people write.
I think other systems would need to have articles queried, written, and accepted before there is any danger of them being printed. So far, they're not even at stage one.
Hollow Earth is pretty cool, and could be done with d20 Modern as well. Rolemaster.... Well, I remain skeptical about the size of the audience for it.
KQ is first and foremost a D&D, d20 magazine. Everything else is an occasional bit of spice, and not the main course, ever.
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| thestinkypete |
| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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I would love to see Feng Shui http://www.atlas-games.com/fengshui/ articles. Hell. I might have a query idea in my head right now.
The setting has always been near and dear to my heart, be it the Shadowfist card game or the fact that my only "modern" (if you can call it that) campaign was in this universe. And there really isn't a continuing community for the system. Probably because almost no one plays it anymore. Sad. Time-traveling guns-blazing Hong Kong action movie action is really well done in this simple system with huge history and limitless story potential. |
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| Bubba Ho-Tep |
| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:00 am Post subject: |
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| Wolfgang wrote: |
The focus WILL be on d20 products, because that's what people write.
I think other systems would need to have articles queried, written, and accepted before there is any danger of them being printed. So far, they're not even at stage one.
Hollow Earth is pretty cool, and could be done with d20 Modern as well. Rolemaster.... Well, I remain skeptical about the size of the audience for it.
KQ is first and foremost a D&D, d20 magazine. Everything else is an occasional bit of spice, and not the main course, ever. |
This is exactly what I was looking at, maybe an article here or ther if it was good enough and you thought the readers would like it.
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| Squach |
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I'm relieved by this idea, myself. I was KQ to be the new Dragon. I want to read it for d20/D&D lovin. If there's an occasional article about another system/world/etc. can be okay so long as it's well explained (I don't want to read it like an inside joke that I can't keep up with) and so long it's strong on the fluff so I can mine it for ideas in any of my games.
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| The Gremlin |
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| Not wanting to rain on the chicken brigade... |
Is everyone making fun of my avatar? 
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| Bubba Ho-Tep |
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| The Gremlin |
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*Grumbles*
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| Oldster |
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As I have been seriously playing D&D since the late 70's and in order to continue playing I was forced to learn 3.5 I am very dissappointed to learn that 4.0 will be coming out so soon. It shows me that Hasbro is only looking to generate more profits from the D&D community and not generate more interest from the folk playing the game.
I believe that as hap-hazardly as the 3.5 has been thrown together there should be no support for it, but since I am seriously out-voted by all that were suckered into believing that 3.0 would be the fix for 2ed only to learn that it would be replaced so quickly with 3.5 that the spinning of the head has just barely stopped, I for one will be quiting the game if the only venue I have to continue playing is 4.0.
With this I am not speaking of the "mechanics" of the game but of the need to purchase another library of books to find that the Prc you want is changed again in the next upcoming issue.
I for one am sick and tired of spending my money on outdated material upon release.
With that said, I will not support 4. anything.
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| Wolfgang |
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Wow, good thing that Open Design is continuing 3E support.
I knew that some people wouldn't switch, but .... I dunno, I guess I've been pretty happy just playing with the core books and a very limited set of Paizo and Green Ronin materials.
But why not just keep playing OD&D or 1E or whatever? I'm not clear on what you mean by "in order to keep playing". Did the DM switch? Was it tough to find players for previous editions? What drove you to finally try 3rd Edition at this late date?
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| The Gremlin |
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I'm not switching to 4.0 either. However, I like the comfy seat I have in 3.5. This is where I started, and I can understand it best.
Maybe when D&d crawls back on its hands and knees, and begs to take gnomes back, and to get rid of halflings and elves, and to fix tieflings back to what they were, maybe then I'll switch to 4.0...
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Wolfgang, I sat very comfortable with 2e and enjoyed the company of online gaming since like 1993 or so when the group started to find RL interests and I understand RL does get in the way of play.
After the group broke up, I suffered for lack of play as the TT scene had vanished for Magic and the "kids". Even in such a populated area that I am in, there is no TT D&D at all, which brings me back to having to learn 3.5. The only venue for play has come back to online, and the only "playing" folk I have been able to find is in 3.5, so, forced to learn 3.5, and at the ripe old age of 59 I am the oldest player in the group!
Even with Open Design supporting 3e there is a problem, the folk I play with only use 3.5 from WOTC, and FR only, narrow minded as that is I fully understand as the books coming out for use are still so broken that the "house rules" become a very real problem for play as it would need every article house ruled to make them playable because of the brokeness. So not all the books are allowed.
Sorry to vent, but I am frustrated almost to the point of escape even with the 3.5, and I know 4... will not solve the problem because the minute it does, they loose the bottom line, money.
There are youngsters out there that are not drugged making good "balance" changes that when finished will probably be washed away again because of lack of interest, so, here is hoping that D&D lives on long after my final days of playing.
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| Wolfgang |
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Yeah, I miss the 2E days sometimes. Mostly when I'm doing templated stat blocks with class levels. Bleah.
I'm glad you did find a group, but I'm pretty amused by the FR-only WotC policy. Both Ed Greenwood and Steven Schend have been patrons of Open Design, and I used to work at WotC as an RPG designer. It's not like this stuff is coming out of left field...
My own campaign is pretty relaxed for rules, using the core books, Spell Compendium, and a few other options. But yeah, there is a sense that RPGs churn out a lot of supplements. Part of that is the need for a business to make payroll, but part of it is the clamor of gamers for more.
When 4E launches, I expect part of the complaints to be about all the "missing" races, classes, and specialities. When all the splatbooks have shipped in 5 years or so, the complaint will be about the need for house rules and playability.
It's always a balancing act. My own frustrations right now are more to do with system bloat in 3E and lack of data for 4E. I want to make the right call to please the majority of KQ and Open Design readers. But there's just not enough information.
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