Archive for September, 2007

Anticipation Versus the Hype Machine

Friday, September 28th, 2007

New core books, oh my!

You can put me on the list of people that are wary of what the Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition is going to look like, but admittedly I’m rather middle-of-the-road about it. After 2nd Edition AD&D and the Skills & Powers expansions (which I think of as AD&D 2.5th Edition) had been out for a few years, I was rather burned out on Dungeons & Dragons. I’d done my time playing with power-gaming, rules-lawyering, munchkin half-elven psionicist/ranger dual-classed super-monkeys and spent some quality time playing Call of Cthulhu, 3rd Edition Earthdawn, and some Cyberpunk 2020 every now and then.
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