D&D 4th Edition stuff

At GenCon this year, Wizards of the Coast announced 4th Edition. This was a shock, but I will say it didn't completely surprise me. I could "feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air."* Given how it was inevitable, I had to ask myself what I think about it. Before I could, though, I thought briefly about 3rd edition. When 3e came out, I began to get a good feel for it, and grew to like how it was done.

( Really long, so I'm hiding it )

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* - My lame attempt at a LotR movie reference! :-p
** - I should point out that the final villain's race came directly from the Monster's Handbook, released by FFG. Thanks, mearls. :)

Addendum to the 4e post

That's what I get for taking over an hour to type up a post about 4e (but is the benefit of having multiple windows open in your browser).

I forgot to talk about the part that *IS* making me excited about 4e: the assumed game world. It's dark, people are isolated, political borders aren't clear, and things are grim in a Conan "Sword & Sorcery" way. Reading the write up about it in the new Design & Development column by Rich Baker has me giddy almost. This is the kind of world I think about when I sit and pine for the days of old, when we just wanted to kill monsters.

Kudos on this setting idea! This alone has me ready to pick it up. I know it's not going to be a setting per se as much as something people can play in, but the setting sets the vibe for the game. The reason why I turned away from Eberron (despite the fact that it rocks), is that it strikes me more as a D&D-as-Shadowrun setting (which, if I was in the mood for a gritty, urban, world-hopping setting, I would jump at to use). When I am in the mood for D&D, though, I want D&D. :)

Holy freakin' hell!

You know, if you're dumb enough to let someone write $2500 in bad checks, you deserve it. >.<;; Don't play sleuth, and try to find the person yourself. And if you do, for heaven's sake, don't casually tell the person -- who you've already identified isn't the one you want -- that cops may be coming by his home in the middle of the night to check IDs. And certainly, if you DO, don't get upset that the person on the line gets angry about it.

*sigh* Stupid freakin' people. Puppy Corral in Collierville did this to me just now. I could have been eating dinner (fortunately, I was not), and it would have ruined my meal. As it was, it agitated me enough to post about it on LJ. :-p

Who knew that I'd want to post again like I used to, just by taking some time off from WoW?

CLARIFICATION: The part that truly made me mad was that they said, "Oh, I could tell as soon as you answered you weren't the one we were looking for." Yet, they were still saying, "the cops are going to come by your place anyway."

Hey andric!!!

It took me 5 months, but I suddenly was able to figure out HOW to read that text file you sent me that time with all that Supernatural-themed rock music. D'oh! It was so simple. Import into Excel, select Tabs for how the data is separated, and -- BAM! -- it's in a readable format.

Now, to see what all I have.. :)

Well, tomorrow maybe. Tonight, it's bedtime! (Unless, of course, I'm inspired to make that post about my Heart's Desire, which would kinda be bad tonight, given that I have work tomorrow morning, VERY early.)