Everything old is new again

[khaosworks]

Am slowly going over the core rules for 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons.

Preliminary thoughts: lots of changes, but a lot simpler to grasp, and combat just got a lot more tactical. Basically, they're aiming this for the MMORPG crowd — you can almost immediately translate the mechanics into things that WoW players understand and vice versa. That's not necessarily a bad thing, by the way.

Whether I'll actually play it, well... that depends. The people I'd like to play it with happen, unfortunately, to be over in Georgia and Indiana...

Comments

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

I remember back when we were all playing CoV and CoH there was some program or utility or whatever that let us all do a sort of conference call and talk voice while playing. Isn't there something along those lines you could all do? The time difference can't be eliminated, but with sufficient organziation and motivation I'm sure that can be worked around.

[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

And wind up like this? :)

There's supposed to be some interactive tools released by WOTC that will allow people to play over teh Interwebs, but the biggest problem, as you say, is the time zone interaction. Thursday game nights would be Friday mornings my time, when I'll be at work.

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, so? Isn't that what weekends are for? *grin*

[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

Ah, but would Rob's group want to switch to Friday nights, that's the thing (quite apart from the logistical setup of net.connectivity...)

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be the one to ask, would I? (Seriously, I have no idea. Or if not, maybe a new group... if you, Rob and Bill were interested, I doubt it would be hard for one of you to find at least one other person to play.)