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<blockquote data-quote="Echohawk" data-source="post: 7453075" data-attributes="member: 9849"><p>I enjoyed both of those articles -- a great summary of the design thinking leading up to and during 4th Edition with plenty of supporting quotes. I'm looking forward to the next installment.</p><p></p><p>I've run long-term campaigns for most editions of D&D. My personal experience with 4th Edition was that it allowed me to introduce RPGs to a whole group of fanatical board gamers. I'm not sure a less MMO-like version would have been as effective. They wanted to play 4th Edition <strong>because</strong> it was so much like a complex tactical board game. However, over the course of an extended campaign (75 games, spanning levels 1-30!) they came to enjoy the story-telling and role-playing aspects as much as the tactics and numerous options. Now that we've moved on to 5th Edition, the consensus all round is that 4th Edition (particularly using Essentials) is a fun enough system to <em>have</em> played, but not one that we'd ever want to go back to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Echohawk, post: 7453075, member: 9849"] I enjoyed both of those articles -- a great summary of the design thinking leading up to and during 4th Edition with plenty of supporting quotes. I'm looking forward to the next installment. I've run long-term campaigns for most editions of D&D. My personal experience with 4th Edition was that it allowed me to introduce RPGs to a whole group of fanatical board gamers. I'm not sure a less MMO-like version would have been as effective. They wanted to play 4th Edition [b]because[/b] it was so much like a complex tactical board game. However, over the course of an extended campaign (75 games, spanning levels 1-30!) they came to enjoy the story-telling and role-playing aspects as much as the tactics and numerous options. Now that we've moved on to 5th Edition, the consensus all round is that 4th Edition (particularly using Essentials) is a fun enough system to [i]have[/i] played, but not one that we'd ever want to go back to. [/QUOTE]
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