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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 4637015" data-attributes="member: 22424"><p>Understandable. However, I think the big problems with 3.5 weren't so much the concept, but rather that it was put out too soon, and made a lot of minor changes to things that didn't really need fixed (I recall a number of complaints about it being "Andy Collins' house rules"). It also didn't help that a lot of the fixes either didn't really fix the underlying problem (as with polymorph), or in some cases were actually worse than what they replaced (weapon sizes - good concept, but far too fiddly in implementation).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Indeed.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I really suspect they won't be. However, I also think we probably don't know what areas will need the work done. 4e has only been out for 8 months, after all. According to WotC's own expectations, that should be just enough time for the first campaigns to have run from 1st to 30th level, and I bet very few groups have done anything like that.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, even now we know of some other areas that may not <em>require</em> redseign, but could certainly use some work:</p><p></p><p>- Grinding combats (probably the biggest one, actually - the combats do work as written, but they could certainly be a whole lot better)</p><p></p><p>- Solo monsters (as mentioned by the OP)</p><p></p><p>- Stealth</p><p></p><p>(None of this is surprising, btw, and not even something WotC should necessarily be blamed for. The game has undergone a total redesign, and so it was inevitable that there would be problems. It's just that, in light of that, I think a 4.5e would be justified. But then, I'm not entirely convinced they won't do one anyway... they'll just call it 5e.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delericho, post: 4637015, member: 22424"] Understandable. However, I think the big problems with 3.5 weren't so much the concept, but rather that it was put out too soon, and made a lot of minor changes to things that didn't really need fixed (I recall a number of complaints about it being "Andy Collins' house rules"). It also didn't help that a lot of the fixes either didn't really fix the underlying problem (as with polymorph), or in some cases were actually worse than what they replaced (weapon sizes - good concept, but far too fiddly in implementation). Indeed. I really suspect they won't be. However, I also think we probably don't know what areas will need the work done. 4e has only been out for 8 months, after all. According to WotC's own expectations, that should be just enough time for the first campaigns to have run from 1st to 30th level, and I bet very few groups have done anything like that. Anyway, even now we know of some other areas that may not [i]require[/i] redseign, but could certainly use some work: - Grinding combats (probably the biggest one, actually - the combats do work as written, but they could certainly be a whole lot better) - Solo monsters (as mentioned by the OP) - Stealth (None of this is surprising, btw, and not even something WotC should necessarily be blamed for. The game has undergone a total redesign, and so it was inevitable that there would be problems. It's just that, in light of that, I think a 4.5e would be justified. But then, I'm not entirely convinced they won't do one anyway... they'll just call it 5e.) [/QUOTE]
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