Just as a sanity check, I tried 4e one more time. My neighbor plays 4e and he said I should try it with his group, just to see how it is played as a home game. Before his invitation, all my actual play time with this game system was either at a world wide game day, or as part of a RPGA event. The neighbor thought I should give it another chance, over at his house.
The game was fun, and the players and DM were all cool. What I got out of the game session was: My neighbor is extremely serious about gaming, and D&D in particular. He had the ultimate table built from MDF board (48x97inch) that he had hand drawn a 1inch battle grid onto and then he urethane coated it to protect the table from food and soda spills. He also had a server with Character Builder on it and three or four laptops so people could remote desktop into the server and update and then print out their PCs to a networked color laser jet. He also had a projector and an eight foot screen to project game maps. Serious gear, light years from pen and paper. I thought I was cool for having my game world on the web and an iPad.
Did I mention the buffet? The guy had a buffet with three different snack dishes nachos, tacos and chicken wings, all in food warmers next to a fridge full of pop. For my Tuesday games, I buy Papa Johns pizza to eat with the wife and kid before the game, and the players get leftovers. At my neighbor’s, I was waiting for a guy in a tux with white gloves to offer me horse-dovers… They said they always have about the same amount of food at each game. Wow.
He asked me at the end what I thought. I said I loved the food and the company, but I was unchanged on 4e, mainly because I sold off all of my 4e books, and that I just was not feeling it anymore. I suppose my 3.5 group and my Pathfinder group fill my gaming needs well enough.
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Nice aticle. I love 4th D&D, but pen and paper style.