D&D 4E Anyone playing 4e at the moment?

[Garthanos]

In my opinion low level monsters should change roles and progress by role like solo / elite / standard and become minions and swarms as the hero's advance not be propped up as more dangerous than they need to be / have the same complexity as default. You do not want to be doing a ton of rolling for multitudes nor have the complex abilities they have when they were an elite when they are now outclassed and I do not think even minions always fully do the trick hence swarms.

I disagree about the feeling of advancement being sufficient without the 1/2 and with nothing more than rather narrow attribute advancement .... particularly missing is for skills and 5e proved that for me undermining that is part of what makes the over all game feel smaller.

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

@BigZebra , I found this site which has links to all the 4e errata (and there was a lot). It might be a good idea to check it out: 4e Updates

there was a single consolidated 4e Errata PDF. In fact they published them periodically. The last one includes all of the errata that were ever released, AFAIK, although it is possible there were a couple of tweaks that were included in the last 4e Dragon which were intended to provide clarity in how to multi-class some of the Essentials classes, build hybrids, etc.

Anyway, if they have that PDF, then you have a complete one-stop-shop for looking up all the errata, organized by which book and then by pages. That means you can pretty easily go through and see if anything applies to a specific power or whatnot.

 

[dave2008]

there was a single consolidated 4e Errata PDF. In fact they published them periodically. The last one includes all of the errata that were ever released, AFAIK, although it is possible there were a couple of tweaks that were included in the last 4e Dragon which were intended to provide clarity in how to multi-class some of the Essentials classes, build hybrids, etc.

Anyway, if they have that PDF, then you have a complete one-stop-shop for looking up all the errata, organized by which book and then by pages. That means you can pretty easily go through and see if anything applies to a specific power or whatnot.

Do you have a link to said PDF?

 

[MwaO]

Do you have a link to said PDF?

https://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/UpdateCompiled.pdf

 

[jeffh]

To just answer the question in the thread title, around the beginning of the pandemic I started running Zeitgeist online under 4E. This is the reason for my recent return to being semi-active here, hardly a regular but I'm back to making more than just three comments a year or so. We're maybe a quarter of the way through The Dying Skyseer at the moment (we've missed a lot of weeks).

 

[nogray]

I, too, never quite stopped playing 4e, though I did take an extended hiatus. I am resuming (and will be concluding) the "our group's playtest" campaign that started when 4e was released. I even have a thread about it. (The thread is still in its infancy.)

 

[Myrhdraak]

Never stopped, but I did a lot of house ruling to capture the best from both 4th and 5th edition

 

[le grand fromage]

4th Edition is still our go to "face to face" edition of choice, with terrain, figures & all the trimmings etc. etc. On hold due to Covid at present but been playing now since it was released & one day we shall return....longest running campaigns we've ever managed to maintain interest in, 'cept perhaps some of the early Call of Cthulhu ones...

 

[ctorus]

Still playing 4e; works excellently on Roll20 (or other vtt). My favourite D&D edition by far. I really don't think you need the digital tools at all; character generation is pretty straightforward if you don't try and bring in all the available options for every class at 1st level.

Sold most of my 5e books, but I'd be interested in advice on useful/good things to grab from 5e for running in 4e, if there is anything.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

If you can get hold of the essential line, use it.
The classes are a lot more true to classical DnD and feel even more distinct than the standard 4e ones.