…he drop any purples?
not until the new patch comes out for D&D 4.11.6a”
aaaand.. i just died a little inside.
Gamespy: D&D 4th Edition comes to PC
Wizards of the Coast will be releasing the 4th edition of the hallmark RPG, Dungeons & Dragons, this summer. The company was kind enough to give us an early look at the game, a one-on-four with some of the key team members for 4th Edition, which gave us a chance to see how the new edition is bringing D&D into the digital age and the realm of online gaming.
Let Slip the Dogs of War, One d20 at a Time
From a design perspective, the most shocking change to 4th Edition is its explicit resemblance to MMOs — specifically, World of Warcraft. Classes now explicitly fill one of five roles in combat, mimicking the MMO trinity of healer, tank and damage guy.
The tiles revolve around the key feature of Insider: the ability to play digitally. In the maps you’ve assembled, players can manipulate virtual miniatures, make their dice rolls, and play the tactical level of D&D almost as easily as if you were all in one room together. With integrated voice and text chat, the program becomes an easy-to-use, centralized solution for playing D&D without having to get an entire group into one room.furniture Bulgariafurniture Videnovmebeli
AND they’re going to charge us… a MONTHLY fee… to use this software. remember when you could buy a book and OWN it? put it proudly into your bookshelf collection? no longer, people.
Virtual monster miniature pricing hasn’t been set, but an Insider subscription (that is, Dungeon and Dragon magazines, access to the rules encyclopedia, and use of the character builder, virtual mini builder, and dungeon creator) will run $15 a month, or $10 a month with a subscription.
4th Edition is trying to compete with a genre that core D&D has no business even being in same MEDIA as. If people wanted to play D&D Online, they could play.. well… D&D Online. Or even NWN2. But to go head to head with WoW? thats insanely stupid. 4th Ed. is NOT going to pull people in from WoW and it CERTAINLY WILL push D&Ders AWAY by alienating them will subscriptions fees and unnecessary technological reliance.
Yeah, yeah… people will mock those who wail “DOOOOOOM!” when something changes… but this in not a simple rules upgrade… say like, from 2nd Edition to 3rd. No, this is a fundamental alteration to the very essence of what D&D is.. was… is supposed to be: sitting at a table, with your real-life friends, snacking, joking, playing a game and telling a communal story.
Now… your friends. If they haven’t already abandoned the gaming table because of WoW, they WILL be replaced by scratchy digitized voices, random-number generator dice and pixels in place of the fat guys B.O. and the stench of Mountain Dew breath.
Take that how you may.
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