D&D 4E Ben Riggs' "What the Heck Happened with 4th Edition?" seminar at Gen Con 2023

[Mannahnin]

Maybe so, but I have seen it around here. A lot.

If all your friends jumped off a bridge...

 

[darjr]

If all your friends jumped off a bridge...

Depends on what level they are.

 

[Mannahnin]

Depends on what level they are.

And what level you are, I hope!

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

If all your friends jumped off a bridge...

I'd jump too!

After all, no one wants to be lonely.

 

[Alzrius]

I'd jump too!

After all, no one wants to be lonely.

Fun fact: I was actually jumped off of a bridge once, not with any friends but by myself.

Of course, it was a footbridge maybe sixteen inches above the bed of a dried stream, but it still counts!

 

[Ondath]

Fun fact: I was actually jumped off of a bridge once, not with any friends but by myself.

Of course, it was a footbridge maybe sixteen inches above the bed of a dried stream, but it still counts!

The real question is, would your friends jump off just because you did?

 

[RealAlHazred]

The real question is, would your friends jump off just because you did?

It really depends on where this footbridge is located, and how far away it is from my current location...

j/k, I don't have any friends...

 

[Mannahnin]

Fun fact: I was actually jumped off of a bridge once, not with any friends but by myself.

Of course, it was a footbridge maybe sixteen inches above the bed of a dried stream, but it still counts!

There's a train trestle bridge in my town that folks used to jump off of regularly for fun. (Into a river).

 

[bulletmeat]

My friends & I jumped onto a bridge from a moving car. Does that count?

 

[Zaukrie]

I really disliked 4e's style, including the monster's statblocks. Way too clinical and cold-seeming. Extraordinarily gamist to my mind.

That's what a statblock is for, IMO. You can get the rest of the stuff elsewhere, but a REALLY EASY to use statblock is a DM's best friend.

I loved 4e. Now, some of that might be that that was the system that had my longest running campaign with mostly the same guys......context matters. But, I really loved how the rules (like statblocks) were strait forward, and there was a TON of lore in the non-statblocks. I liked the "gamist" language in the rules parts a lot. It just made it easier to actually run the game. There was plenty of lore and stuff outside the blocks.