Comments on: Tonight is my last 4e game

By: shent_lodge

shent_lodge — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:44:46 +0000

@Old D&D Coot, I had those spell cards, man they were cool until I left a set somewhere that had all my main spells for my wizard…
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By: Old D&D Coot

Old D&D Coot — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:08:14 +0000

Having played D&D for well..longer than I care to recall and loved it in all its forms, I can say this 4E thing is not D&D. That said let me say that 4E isnt a bad game, Ive played nearly every system atleast once and this is not a bad system..But we are talking about D&D, this 4E is a WoW hybrid. If I want to play WoW i’ll sign up and zone out and feed the Blizzard monster. I for one feel Pathfinder is more in the “spirit” of my beloved game and my group as turned away from 4E and made Pathfinder our system of choice to feed the D&D “need” so to speak. While I admit I dont like bright shiny new things and I two recall the funny wired phones with a dail of all things on them, A great deal of my group are “new” blood having only played 3-3.5E but they two read over 4E and found it lacking. Having vented now I can only hope that the next incarnation of D&D is something akin to the game of old, the rolls royce of fantasy rpgs. Thank you for the time and the forum to shake my fist at this system- The only cards D&D ever had in my opinion where the super handy spell cards that were nothing more than the spell stats in a card from..ahh 2E those were better days TSR days.

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By: Jonathan Drain | D20 Source

Jonathan Drain | D20 Source — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:27:51 +0000

I like that 4E gives me all the monsters, classes, and magic items digitally, like the D20 SRD did for 3E, with the inclusion of every WotC book including ones I haven’t bought. I also like the emphasis on saving the DM work.

I don’t like how 4E combat seems slow and drawn-out, and we spend a lot of effort tracking and forgetting status effects. Even in third edition we often forgot status effects buffs, like Entropic Shield or Ethereal Jaunt. It seems like a bad design choice to base the core gameplay around that.
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By: shent_lodge

shent_lodge — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:54:29 +0000

@Bobby, I am hearing similar stories from friends all over. The pathfinder beta download was a smart play by Paizo. I still have not played Pathfinder yet but I like what I have read so far. I plan to play it at Winter War here in Urbana IL.
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