4th edition!

[CabbageTheif]

no, lazyness wont have anything to do with it. even if you did try to watch it yourself right now you wopuld have problems. i am finding that so many people arre freakin bout the 4th edition that the website is being swamped.

i'm upset that all of the links i had to downloads are gone!

but yeah, if anyone can get through and find the video could you post it here to make it easier. its not on youtube yet,, chacked already.

[rwald]

I've posted a torrent of the main articles and the video at Chaos Wasteland; go to http://cw.enlightning.de:6969/stats....0363b06447a6e0

[ranger89]

Well, we know that dwarves, elves and half-elves are sticking around. That leaves half-orcs and gnomes as candidates for the chopping block.

Fair well, my gnomie homies...

And how do we know that? I read an article earlier today that hinted at a 3e base race being removed but I can't find it now. Thanks in advance for any extra info.

[Skyserpent]

I dunno about you guys, but I'm stoked, psyched, and other old terms from the mid-nineties that denote excitement.

I'm confident about this. This is gonna be bitchin'

[Fixer]

I am on dialup and cannot access the Wizards site. It is timing out. :(

I am hoping someone can paraphrase the differences.

[Thrivol]

Hey guys,

I have the teaser for the video uploading to YouTube right now. It'll be there in a minute.

[brian c]

I am on dialup and cannot access the Wizards site. It is timing out. :(

I am hoping someone can paraphrase the differences.

It's not because of your dialup, the site isn't responding. I guess they didn't anticipate quite this much traffic

[AlterForm]

Teaser vid, for those interested

[Stormcrow]

I liked what I read about the new online tools and I particularly liked that class article. Its allways been a pet peeve of mine that you can't really use your weapons as they should be. Like... spears... If you've seen Hero for example there is a very specifc fighting style there. Not like... Jab, Jab Jab.

I hope 4e keeps up the good work.

[Skyserpent]

Level Adjustment mechanics are apparently going out the window too

also: Book of Nine Swords combat system might come in, but i'm hoping for a fix to the Shopping List style Magic Selection

also: According to the D&D Podcast they plan on overhauling the familiar system. Which would be awesome, since familiars kinda suck right now

[Thrivol]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=QLeL-qYMh4o

This one wasn't uploaded by me.

[Matthew]

Bypassing Armour, though? Doesn't seem very 'specifically' Spear like to me.

[Zaruthustran]

I'm looking forward to it. That bit on classes and weapon-specific fighting styles sounds very cool. I hope sword & board finally gets some love.

[Matthew]

That Teaser Trailer sucked, but hilariously it made 3e look no better than 2e, at least to my mind. What was with the 1989 Music, though? That should have been Metal or Rock or something. Just shows how pants the current Wizards staff were in 1989.. and what was with that dodgy accent guy?

[Thrivol]

That Trailer sucked, but hilariously made 3e look no better than 2e, at least to my mind. What was with the 1989 Music, though? That should have been Metal or rock or something. Just shows how pants Wizards were in 1989.

Yes, well, the trailer was just to show how there are problems with 3.5e, and how 4th edition will have new features but will still stay the same basic game.

[Matthew]

Yeah, I meant in the context of their advertising campaign, which was look how much X is better than Y. Now they are saying X and Y both sucked.

[Zaruthustran]

Well, yeah. That's the nature of incrementally improving a product. Y improves on X. Z improves on Y.

What, did you expect them NOT to say that 4E is better than 3E???

:)

[Matthew]

I didn't expect them to say "2e was too slow and 3e was too slow, maybe slower". Honestly, I expected something better than that video. Maybe, you know, something about 4e (aside from, "it's faster").

(Did anyone else notice that the 2e guys were playing with First Quest Character Cards?)

[AlterForm]

Guys, have I understood/done something wrong as to Youtube's tags? Those are the things that should pull up the video if I search for them, yes?

[Aximili]

Pretty lousy teaser wasn't it?

[Matthew]

Yep, it sucked to say the least. What was going on with that accent?

[Aximili]

I was under the impression that it was an intentional reference to something. Just couldn't guess what =P

[Matthew]

?! Is that your gut instinct or just some cultural reference I am missing?

[SpiderKoopa]

Ugh. Besides poking a little fun at all the editions, that was completely useless. @_@ Well, except saying 4E will be coming out in 2008.

[Rob Knotts]

MerricB on EN World has been compiling info as it becomes available:
http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=204119

[Aximili]

?! Is that your gut instinct or just some cultural reference I am missing?

Just my gut instinct who doesn't want to believe that they'd hire a narrator who can barely pronounce "was" for absolutely no reason.

[de-trick]

it wasn't really a trailer more of a walk through the different editions

[Hurlbut]

Bypassing Armour, though? Doesn't seem very 'specifically' Spear like to me.

Well spear in general is very piercing.

[talsine]

I've posted a torrent of the main articles and the video at Chaos Wasteland; go to http://cw.enlightning.de:6969/stats....0363b06447a6e0

your my hero!!

[Matthew]

Well spear in general is very piercing.

Yeah, it is, and the idea is that it has penetrating power against Body Armour, but I think that could be said for just about any weapon.

So, really, I'm wondering penetration or bypass or both?