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For me it is mostly edition dependent. There has been a point where the game just doesnt seem to work or be fun anymore. All my campaigns in 1st through 3rd edition stopped around 12th level where the game started to be grind, so we just shuffled our PCs and campaign into the sunset. My 4th ed...

I missed out seeing a warlord in 4e but they look awesome, so I hope to see something in 5e.

We have just started a 4e DS campaign. We are just two sessions in and I dont know enough about earlier editions of DS to make a contrast. We are using 2E maps and materials though, so I think you can use previous stuff rather easily. However, I think you find the 4E Psionic Power book very...

If the rounds are dragging then you certainly have a problem. It is important to have interesting opponents (I think 5e has a bit of a problem in this regard), opponents who come into combat later or in waves, and interesting/difficult terrain can make combat really interesting. But the most...

Haha, basically a Dragonborn FTR/ROG/SOR/DRUID

What about non-material rewards? I have often wondered if you could have a reputation/honour system built into 4e, where higher reputation for a given PC give bonuses to dealing with relevant organisations and access resources at higher level.

You cant go wrong with a battle cleric, but I voted for wizard. Hopefully a wizard would shorten your combats and reduce the need of the druid and bard to use their spells for cures.

I feel like I have answered this before but the only things I really would want is more options for melee classes and more interesting monster options. But I only want these as an option, not a new damn edition. At a meta level I am finding it interesting that in the last few months there has...

Here is fan curated one I found in the 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons section on Google+ -> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2mLfpEGKv-Sb29tN2tBYVBWZzA/view

Yeah 100% agree with this. I do not want a new edition but some extra modules that spice monsters and melee classes up a bit. These are the only critical problems with 5e for me. But I dont want to inflict my tastes on the whole game.

I remember a brief verse from a really old Dragon magazine that went along the lines of A nymph, one of peace's proponents, never flights but seduces opponents, Their violence she quell, as if using a spell, you should see her material components

I really like this idea ( while I like both 4e and 5e, ultimately I think 4e is a more fun game despite the elegance of 5e). I really like the idea of divorcing of class and role - especially for the core classes. Now in my 4e campaign the best controller in the party is fighter and the...

I agree that 4e as written in the initial books had less attention to practical matters than other editions and I am in two minds about it. On one level I dont have enough time IRL to when I do play to detail every minutiae - lets get straight to the action. I dont want count arrows or how many...

I agree with the claim that monsters in 5e are a bit boring. But I dont think dragons are the best example, I think ogres, gnolls, orcs etc are where a feel like the bag of hit points claim has some merit. I do think that 5e overreacted to the idea that 4e fights take too long and made monsters...

The main impetus for leaving is that I get burnt out by problems in various editions of the game - especially in high level play which I have found to be a repeating (and annoying) problem in D&D from 1e onwards. I gave up on D&D during the 2e period - I found high level 2e unplayable and gave...

I think you will also have to think about your CON. As a toe to toe striker you will get hit and need as many healing surges as you can. I played a ranger up till 30th level (though I was an archer and I converted to a ranger - cleric hybrid at about 8th level because of in game reasons and...

Exactly this. How magic items of power arrive needs to be a core part of the story. In my big 4e campaign, we had Whelm, the rod of Seven parts and the sword of Kas (at two different points), and the eye of Vecna (which we did not use). Sure artefacts worked in a very different way in 4e but in...

I agree that the idea of innovations are subjective - but isnt it the case that the innovations of 5e are designed to replicate the feelings of previous editions rather than create a new experience and playstyle (or wider set of playstyles) . I feel they have been very effective in doing this -...

Agree with this. We found the 4E cosmology to be less "out there" and more usable and evident within in the motivations and allegiances of the PCs. This was because the relationships between the gods/demons/angels and planes was more dynamic. While we did not play in Nerath we did play in a POL...

I am one of the players in the campaign run by pemerton, and I think one of the most crucial reasons the campaign worked the way it did was because of differences of opinion and motive within the party. These differences and tensions were mostly about religion and philosophy and they were...