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[Tales and Chronicles]

Very unpopular opinion. If you could streamline D&D 4E combat to be as quick as 5E's combat, or quicker, and revise the skill challenge system to be looser and more manageable, it would be just about my ideal expression of D&D as a game system. Just pile on optional rules to mod it so you could also get gritty OSR-style play and port in all the fantastic lore and settings from over the years and it would be perfect.

I played a few games of 4e using only either PHB 1-2-3 or Essentials classes.

• I removed feats, they are too fiddly.
• Used the Proficiency Bonus of 5e instead of the 1/2 level of 4e.
• I used MM3 monsters but I think I'd go with 5e monsters instead for a future game.

I guess you could even go with Essentials Fighter-Cleric-Thief-Mage if you wanted to, removing skills in favor of roll-under.

 

[Maxperson]

Necessity is the mother of leniency.
-Members of the Donner Party, probably.

 

[overgeeked]

“Why are you upset? The majority of this niche hobby you’re involved in has actively shat on a thing you really like for the last 15 years straight. So what?”

Gee. I wonder.

 

[JAMUMU]

The Donner Party should have packed more kebabs, is all I'm saying.

 

[Scribe]

“Why are you upset? The majority of this niche hobby you’re involved in has actively shat on a thing you really like for the last 15 years straight. So what?”

Gee. I wonder.

psst - wrong shade thread.

 

[overgeeked]

psst - wrong shade thread.

Either, or. Really. Humans should have empathy for other humans is clearly an unpopular opinion.

 

[Jd Smith1]

Either, or. Really. Humans should have empathy for other humans is clearly an unpopular opinion.

A casual read of history will hammer that home as a fact.

I have spent countless hours over the last 2.5 decades on forums dedicated to various hobbies and specialized interests, and the experience has left me with a sense of wonder that the Human race still exists.

 

[MGibster]

Makes as much sense as beaver tail being 'fish' for Lenten dietary purposes.

And how we've classified animals over the years doesn't always make sense to use like our modern classifications do.

THAT was originally a directive to a limited population for a limited time to stave off malnutrition issues. Religious leaders of various kinds have done similar things in the past. Some rabbis in the 1930s-40s advised their people to eat pork to avoid starvation when it was all they could get.

It makes a certain sense to me to classify animals that are aquatic or semi-aquatic as fish. A tomato might be a fruit, but culturally it's a vegetable.

Based on my experiences and that of my fellow Southern expats, I do believe that your average Southerner in the United States does eat different things at home than the average New Englander or Californian.

No question. My wife grew up in the South and her diet growing up was quite a bit different from mine. You should have seen my face the first time I was at my in-laws and they tried serving me chocolate gravy one morning.

 

[Jd Smith1]

“Why are you upset? The majority of this niche hobby you’re involved in has actively shat on a thing you really like for the last 15 years straight. So what?”

Gee. I wonder.

Others opinions do not change the thing you like.

 

[Thomas Shey]

No question. My wife grew up in the South and her diet growing up was quite a bit different from mine. You should have seen my face the first time I was at my in-laws and they tried serving me chocolate gravy one morning.

My mother visited back with her sister (who lived in the South) many years ago, and her comment at the time (this would have been, keep in mind, probably the early 70's) was that it seemed like they put sugar in everything.