[Deptheads] 4e

[Chris Carlson]

> D&D 4th

> 

> Ever since I was contracted by WotC and worked briefly with Chaz on ideas
for what 

> became Chainmail, WotC discovered the money to be made
selling miniatures. I am 

> NOT an expert on what 4th edition will entail, but
apparently it is more combat based and 

> has a “screw role playing” mentality. I have seen the
suggestions on the listserve, and 

> offer my own compromise on the subject. In May, we give
D&D 4th edition its own 

> space. Keep D&D 3rd edition (or 3.5 or 3.75 or
3.927384, whatever the hell they are up 

> to now) in RPG where it belongs. Most people still
think of D&D as the original Role 

> Playing Game, and moving it to collectibles right away
would be a mistake. Giving it a 

> space of its own will give people a rallying point if
they want to learn what it is or see 

> how it works. Conventions work best when you “give the
people what they want” (hence 

> the feedback seminars), so I suggest we see how it
goes, and decide after May what to do 

> with it afterwards. Even if it is more of a
miniatures/collectibles game, the players and 

> GMs may still want the separate rooms that RPGs have
for any token/miniscule role-playing 

> they come up with. Note, Chaz and myself were trying to
sell Chainmail as a large-scale 

> miniatures battle in a D&D world system, so in the
end maybe the Miniatures room will be 

> best for it. Version 3.0 had a book called the
Miniatures Handbook that had/has rules for 

> large scale battles with D&D figures and
rules(where did they get that? hmmm). From 

> what I’ve heard, however unreliable, D&D 4th may
best be served by its own space and own 

> HQ separate from RPG, Collectibles, and Miniatures
because it is a blend all its own.



Wow! How much more wrong can a person be? That is so far removed from anything resembling fact, I don’t know where to begin. Please stop spewing sour grapes
and reminiscing about the good ol’ days when D&D was a real game. 4e is an
RPG. First, last and every way in between. The D&D Miniatures game is being
revamped to coincide with the new 4e RPG rules. These are two separate games. You should already know that.
 




4e does not need its own department. But more importantly,
as big as it is going to be for us, it sure as heck doesn’t need staff members
going around trashing it before they even know the first thing about it.

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