D&D 4E How Do You Plan to Fix 4E?

[Brown Jenkin]

I don't understand this poll. Will the process be markedly different from house ruling any other game?

Yes, in this version the WotC Ninjas (tm) will immediately come to your house and take back all the 4e stuff if you make a houserule.

 

[CleverNickName]

I'm not sure is "ask hong" was included as a joke or not, but I often find it's a very productive and helpful thing to do. He's a statistician, you know.

Only a little. Sure, I'm picking on him a bit, and he can be snarky when he wants to be, but the Iron Pimp usually has good insight into the way that games work and how they could work better. I figured he would be a good stand-in for the "ask someone on ENWorld for advice" option.

Nifft is also a good go-to guy for suggestions and feedback, but he seems to focus mostly on the 3.x stuff.

 

[Dragonbait]

I don't know who or what Hong is, but I feel compelled to want to have his babies. This is extra consternating because I am neither a female or a load-bearing truck.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

I'd go with Houserules. I will probably be doing lots of houserules/aesthetic changes anyways for my campaign-world (after playing a more RAW oriented adventure) given how different it is from normal fantasy worlds.

 

[Kahoots]

Yup. Beat Ask Hong. It's the only possible, legitimate choice.

This.

 

[Agamon]

This is what house rules are for.

Yep.

No alignment needed. Slow down level gaining a lot. Limit player races. Give bonuses to compensate for low magic. Easy peasy.

 

[Agamon]

I'm not sure is "ask hong" was included as a joke or not, but I often find it's a very productive and helpful thing to do. He's a statistician, you know.

Hey, hong, what do you think of this?

 

[lutecius]

probably won't play 4e, but will stick around anyway and whine until every last 4on sees the errors of his ways.

More seriously, I will probably give it a try as is but can't see myself buying the books. There are already so many things that rub me the wrong way that I feel like a krenshar.

The dealbreakers are so tied to the design philosophy and the core of the game that they would be impossible to ignore and houseruling them would be too much effort.

Which is a shame because I was really looking forward to a new edition, well before it was announced, and there are many things i do like about 4e.

 

[Silvercat Moonpaw]

You forgot:
"A blow torch."
"I will recall Gary Gygax from the grave."
"I will subject it to enough [insert your most hated form of entertainment, preferably D&D related, here] until it cries for its mommy."

 

[Ace]

I probably won't be playing 4e but if I do from what can tell I really will only be using 1 house rule -- Backgrounds

Each player will have a background (place of birth, secondary skills etc) that can be used as a trained skill --

I'll likely require that it fit the skills the character has of course but say you are playing a Seafolk Wizard -- I can't see why you can make a skill check to do nautical stuff

same with say a Lumberjack (who is OK, spare me the reference) turned Warlord -- he could roll to cut a tree or whatever