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<blockquote data-quote="wayne62682" data-source="post: 4333506" data-attributes="member: 40455"><p>IMO the quote was originally being used to condemn 4E because, basically, the Fighter doesn't get overshadowed and outperformed by the Cleric/Druid/Wizard/anyone else. "When everyone is special, nobody is special" seems to only refer to the perceived "dumbing down" of 4E, in that now everyone does the same thing with some minor flourishes; there's no more Wizard using some broken twink spell to shatter all semblance of a fair and balanced game and do so legally and within the rules.</p><p></p><p>In my opinion, the use of that quote and making analogies to the movie are fallacies in themselves - the movie represents what made 3.5 suck so much; the fact that some people ARE better than others because they're more special. In 3.5 the Wizard was Superman, and the Fighter was your average beat cop on the street. When some hood robs a bank, the beat cop can stop him just fine, unless Superman gets there first (and he usually did), but when there's another supervillain (or even an above-average normal villain like Batman faces), the beat cop is well out of his league -- no matter how hard he tries or how determined he is to stop the bad guy, he physically CAN'T. And, while that might be a realistic interpreation in the 3.5 context, it <em>wasn't fun</em> in the context of "Me and my buddies want to spend a couple hours playing a game for our enjoyment"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wayne62682, post: 4333506, member: 40455"] IMO the quote was originally being used to condemn 4E because, basically, the Fighter doesn't get overshadowed and outperformed by the Cleric/Druid/Wizard/anyone else. "When everyone is special, nobody is special" seems to only refer to the perceived "dumbing down" of 4E, in that now everyone does the same thing with some minor flourishes; there's no more Wizard using some broken twink spell to shatter all semblance of a fair and balanced game and do so legally and within the rules. In my opinion, the use of that quote and making analogies to the movie are fallacies in themselves - the movie represents what made 3.5 suck so much; the fact that some people ARE better than others because they're more special. In 3.5 the Wizard was Superman, and the Fighter was your average beat cop on the street. When some hood robs a bank, the beat cop can stop him just fine, unless Superman gets there first (and he usually did), but when there's another supervillain (or even an above-average normal villain like Batman faces), the beat cop is well out of his league -- no matter how hard he tries or how determined he is to stop the bad guy, he physically CAN'T. And, while that might be a realistic interpreation in the 3.5 context, it [i]wasn't fun[/i] in the context of "Me and my buddies want to spend a couple hours playing a game for our enjoyment" [/QUOTE]
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