[Deptheads] 4e

[Janice Sellers]

And for those of us who are not part of the in crowd, can you please
tell me where this came from and who wrote it?

Janice

On 2/22/08, Chris Carlson <ccarlson101 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.