D&D 4E Who's still playing 4E

[vagabundo]

Just to give a quick update. My Nentir Vale campaign is still ongoing. Its a mishmash of the best of that settings adventures.

Nearly finished Reavers of the Harkonwold. My PCs are sneaking in the Iron Keep after helping to defeat the Iron Circle's army at Albridge.

It was a great opportunely to do a little mini dungeon in the bowels under the keep. So I had a Drow eating Young Black Dragon make his lair there. It was an AAA session. I don't often break out the grid we play mostly in TotM, but for this I decided it was worth it. The whole thing reinforces why I love 4e so much. I spent more time drawing the map on acetate than I did prepping the mechanics. 4e does so much of the heavy lifting for me and is a breeze to run and improvise with.

Now my only problem is making the climax with the Iron Circle leader as good as the dragon encounter.

 

[Nemesis Destiny]

The Reavers of Harkenwold was such a wonderful module. I used it in my aforementioned Viking campaign and it was a great success both for me and my players; we all had a blast with it.

If the initial batch of 4e modules was this good, the edition might have got off to a better start.

I also heavily modified it to fit my campaign setting. I ended up replacing several of the NPCs and villains and introducing a few other hooks for the rest of the story arc within that module. It was a lot of extra work, but it didn't affect the basic goodness of the module.

I used a certain goblin NPC from that module to lure the PCs into the adventure, and even after the module was done, he continued to shadow them right up to the capstone encounter of my story arc at level 10, where one of the players took him over to replace his fallen character. It's been a while now and the players still talk fondly of the campaign.

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

I can't remember if I've posted in this thread before or not, and it's not old enough to be a necro, especially considering the lack of posts with this tag these days.

So yeah, I'm still playing 4e. I just finished a 1-10 viking-themed game, have restarted another game that I'm co-dming with my wife (we run PCs in each other's game), which also has a higher-level counterpart on the cusp of Paragon that I am a player in. I've also got another game that's on hold, which is a precursor to another game that I haven't started.

I have no intent to switch editions at this point. I just don't like what I've read of 5e, in particular the return of casters having all the cool toys, but other issues as well. I also have no time to learn another new system at this stage of my life. One of the guys in the group really wants to try it but so far has not mustered the time to put together a game, so it remains untested.

There's a lot worse things than 5e, but its no 4e. I mean, in terms of class design, for the purpose it serves, 5e is better, and it presents its aims a little more directly, so it clearly has greater accessibility to a lot of people. I think its quite too bad that the opportunity was lost to make it a more direct descendant of 4e.

 

[Jhaelen]

I'm happy to report that we've recently continued with our 4e campaign after it had been on hiatus for 1.5 years

 

[EzekielRaiden]

I'm happy to report that we've recently continued wit hour 4e campaign after it had been on hiatus for 1.5 years

Wonderful! It's always fun to see a good story continue anew.

 

[Nemesis Destiny]

I think its quite too bad that the opportunity was lost to make it a more direct descendant of 4e.

I agree 100%. Unfortunately it does not look like we'll see that anytime soon, or likely ever. I can always hope though... :\

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

I agree 100%. Unfortunately it does not look like we'll see that anytime soon, or likely ever. I can always hope though... :\

There was a petition being run around to get WotC to OGL 4e. They really don't have an excuse not to anymore.

 

[Nemesis Destiny]

There was a petition being run around to get WotC to OGL 4e. They really don't have an excuse not to anymore.

I'd be shocked if they did though. They've signaled their feelings about 4e and its adherents pretty clearly - they don't care at all, and we can either get on board with 5e, or keep quietly suckling on the ddi tools teat until it runs dry and they shut it off and we're left to fend for ourselves.

I think that if they OGL'd 4e, they would fear it might cannibalize future sales of 5e too much, especially if they're basically giving it away. I don't know how significant it would be, but from Hasborg's PoV, why take the risk?

Edit: For the record though, where is this petition, and where do I sign? lol

Edit 2: Found it; signed. Has this been posted here at all?

 

[Myrhdraak]

Just to give a quick update. My Nentir Vale campaign is still ongoing. Its a mishmash of the best of that settings adventures.

Nearly finished Reavers of the Harkonwold. My PCs are sneaking in the Iron Keep after helping to defeat the Iron Circle's army at Albridge.

It was a great opportunely to do a little mini dungeon in the bowels under the keep. So I had a Drow eating Young Black Dragon make his lair there. It was an AAA session. I don't often break out the grid we play mostly in TotM, but for this I decided it was worth it. The whole thing reinforces why I love 4e so much. I spent more time drawing the map on acetate than I did prepping the mechanics. 4e does so much of the heavy lifting for me and is a breeze to run and improvise with.

Now my only problem is making the climax with the Iron Circle leader as good as the dragon encounter.

I guess the map making must have been a big 4th Edition show stopper for a lot of DMs lacking the Photoshop skills or the money to buy miniatures and dungeon tiles. It takes quite a while to build battle maps in 4th Edition. I think the time is well worth it, but not everybody would not agree to it.

/Myrhdraak

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

I'd be shocked if they did though. They've signaled their feelings about 4e and its adherents pretty clearly - they don't care at all, and we can either get on board with 5e, or keep quietly suckling on the ddi tools teat until it runs dry and they shut it off and we're left to fend for ourselves.

I think that if they OGL'd 4e, they would fear it might cannibalize future sales of 5e too much, especially if they're basically giving it away. I don't know how significant it would be, but from Hasborg's PoV, why take the risk?

Edit: For the record though, where is this petition, and where do I sign? lol

Edit 2: Found it; signed. Has this been posted here at all?

For the record, here it is https://www.change.org/p/wizards-of...eons-dragons-4th-edition-an-open-game-license