Game Geeks #61 Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Previews

Game Master Kurt Wiegel reviews and educates viewers on role playing games. On episode #61 Kurt reviews Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Preview: Race and Class and World and Monsters by Wizards of the Coast.
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[tetsubo57]

When I found out that they were charging for the preview books, I knew doom was on the march.

4E isn't D&D to me. It's a tactical miniatures game with a fantasy expansion tacked onto it.

The last version of D&D is 3.5.

[arrugao]

2nd edition for ever!

[sonoNEKO]

D&D was never really Tolkien-based, as a big Tolkien fan, I really had a hard time getting into D&D because I hated how elves were, I hated gnomes, good dragons were weird, the gods were weird, and so on. I had to really step away from Tolkien fantasy and really get into the D&D stuff before the Greyhawk setting stuck to me. Gygax has also stated in an article in the Dragon that he wasn't even a fan of Lord of the Rings and didn't take much inspiration from it.

[ADnDsDM]

@ZachariasClub

DAMN RIGHT! OD&D started it all and 1st edition enhanced the rules further. After that the game becomes a competition between what was popular at the time. 2nd edition was created to get into the Magic the Gathering Market, (Wizard & Cleric Spell Card Boxes as well as The Trading Card sets. 3rd was an attempt (poor as it was) to bring the old system back, 3.5 was done to make money, pure and simple, while 4th edition was made to tap into the World of Warcraft Market.

[ZachariasClub]

@Orklord90 4th is ok for starting... but you should try earlier editions. once you've played a little, you might want try 1st edition. ask be questions!

[ZachariasClub]

@capndax ... and then 4th edition came out.

[ZachariasClub]

@arrugao 1st edition forever!!!!!!!!

[ADnDsDM]

@quequien2002

Yep. Talks so much BS about it here then trashes it later. Would have been better to have kept him mouth shut till he actually played the game to begin with. He educates viewers my aunt Fanny.

[capndax]

Thank you D&D !!

D&D inspired us to make movies in the fantasy world and rules and characters.

Monsters and various races are used.

Our movies are all put on You Tube

Movies by: Shadowyn Films

movies like: Soul Searching

If you like D&D you will like these movies a well.

Ideas are welcome!

[pspboy7]

Elves, Dwarves, Humans, Halflings, dragons, wraiths... that is as far as D&D is compared to Tolkien's world, after that the similarities end. D&D is very magic heavy, Tolkien's world is not... But yes, it is obvious that D&D was heavily influenced but Tolkien, albeit indirectly.

[MhicWombat]

I started with OD&D ... pre-"1st ed"; I dropped out with AD&D, I got brought back with 3e, never fully converted to 3.5, and have subsequently moved away from D&D again. I am glad there are so many other game systems out there -- D&D does not satisfy my needs in the slightest.

[tetsubo57]

Well, we are all entitled to our opinions.

And I've preordered Pathfinder.

The best version of 3.5 I have yet seen is Everstone. I even did a video on it on my channel.