Yet Another Edition of DND.

Old news really. But somehow I've got nowhere else to write about it but here.

I have just reviewed the 'preview' book for 4e: Races and Classes, and after spending a good hour reading its 90 pages, I couldn't help but be in awe.


In awe for the daunting work Wizards of the Coast must have put into making it... in awe, because yet again, I have to relearn the game which taught me to dream, and create.

Well, it's been a decade since 3rd Edition first hit the printers, now another one looms on the horizon. It will be this June, that geekdom will then again receive its new RPG.

Naysayers, and it's faithful have gone on a fullscale debate whether the game will rock... or suck. Who's to say really, no one will ever be able to determine the outcome of the product until it is right in our hands.

If I must take sides about this, I must say that I have been playing this game long enough to admit, that WotC's acquisition of TSR's rights over DND was the best thing that happened to the game. Whether we like it or not, the reason why TSR didn't fare so well is because it didn't know how to market the game!

I remember many years ago, before PC Rpg made its debut... I remember playing DND. And it was so hard to teach new people the game. Hard enough to remain in obscurity.

With 4e just around the corner, WotC has let go of a promise:

The game will still use the d20 System.
There will be an SRD.
Faster gameplay.
Each level will have equally meaningful options. No more dead levels.
Simplified game system. Yes, you're still rolling a d20, but the rules behind it will be much more simpler.
The rules will be simpler, and DM'ng preptime will be decreased.
Classes will now have equal opportunity at options. Combat for fighters in 3e, were not much different than any other encounter. "Power Attack, Whirlwind Attack, or Spring Attack".
'Feats' will retain its usefulness throughout the levels of your character.




What I like about 4e's premise is the goal of cutting down prep time for the DM. God knows the Dm could use some 'free' time for other things... oh, I don't know... Real Life, maybe?


As of now, WotC is still showing previews on their webpage. To the non-geeks, the website is here.


And to close this off, I took the liberty to add in WotC's 4e Teaser.

And yes, he's a French Geek. And NO, I don't want his babies.



Enjoy.

Another Blog...

What the hey... I figured I already tried writing, I might as well get into the IT thing where every nerd would eventually find himself doing...

Blogging..

I do have a sorry-excuse-of-a-blog already but somehow I found the space somewhat stiffling. A bit too compact... the space on that service made me a bit claustrophobic.

Nerds: an unstylish, unattractive, or socially inept person; especially : one slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits

I don't know about the 'inept' part, but I think I have the other things down to an art. Ha!

It will be my aim, to torture you, my readers with a somewhat regular stream of half-baked opinions about the world, biased interpretations of world events (whoever THINKS they are unbiased are only fooling themselves), and lots of geekiness on the side.