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Good article. To put it in D&D terms, let's say the worst cases (call it 5% of those infected) need the full-time attention of a cleric to survive. If you have 200 cases and 10 clerics, your mortality rate is 0%. If you have 250 cases and 10 clerics, your mortality rate is 1%. If you have 500...

The common thread I'm seeing here is the primacy of the combat pillar in 4E. It is a fact that A, E, and D are all attack powers, and I can see how a repeated focus on combat over several game sessions can make the play experience seem samey. So, a perhaps slightly off-topic question that I'd...

Thank you for your views. I will just add that for many of us who like 4E, this is a feature not a bug, because it makes combat interesting and every character class is able to contribute more or less equally to combat. That said, I can see how someone who prefers more focus on the other two...

So, 4E characters have more choices in play? More complex, certainly, more concentration needed, maybe, but samey? Not seeing it.

Which is a fine reason to prefer 5E to 4E, and actually a point supporting the assertion that 4E is not samey.

To me, I don't paricularly care whether you prefer 4E to 5E or vice-versa. I'd just like to seek some clarity for my intellectual satisfaction: 1. If you are of the view that the 4E classes feel the same because of the identical AEDU power structure, do the 5E bard, cleric, druid, sorcerer and...

Actually, now that I think about it, there might be a case for presentation making a difference, after all. 4E martial powers were formatted pretty much like 4E arcane or divine spells, with keywords, action required, attack vs defence, targets, and so on. On the other hand, 5E battlemaster...

Since I've broken my silence, I'll go ahead and throw my hat into the ring. Responding to a few points extracted from the first post: 1. Gamers are not a homogenous bunch. I personally happen to like encounter-focused, well-balanced, no-poor-character-building-choices...

The analogy I would use is picking something from the menu of the best restaurant in the world. There are no bad choices because everything is great. However, there may be bad choices for you because you're allergic to shellfish or you are vegetarian. Everything is special, but you choose the...

In general, I don't like to use random encounters, for a number of reasons. If I"m running my own homebrew adventure (as opposed to a published module) and I put effort into designing an encounter, I'm going to want to use it, no matter what the dice say. Random encounters seem to me like...

Sorry, I'm not really keen to get into the whole "which edition is the least challenging" debate, which frankly, to me, has the unpleasant odor of, "REAL MEN play my favourite edition; the other editions are for wimps!" I'm only pointing out that your earlier statement: was not accurate since...

Except that 4E had Healing Surges, not Hit Dice, so each use of Second Wind typically restored one quarter of the character's hit points, regardless of level.

And then there was the time (in 2E) that the party was fighting an enemy who cast stoneskin, which (in 2E) blocked 1d4 + half caster level attacks, regardless of attack rolls. First thing my mage did on his turn was to chuck three darts at him.

I think the paladin is too weak because they ought to be head and shoulders above all the other character classes, just like they were in 1E. I've attached a pdf of what I think the paladin should be like. ;) Seriously, though, I think the base classes are pretty well balanced with each other...

IMO, it's not whether you object, but how you object that determines whether you get called toxic. For example, if someone had told me, "I don't like 4E. I think it puts too much emphasis on combat, I think the player characters recover too quickly from hit point damage, and the non-magical...

Actually (and coincidentally) since Eberron's Gatekeepers are focussed on defending nature against outsiders and other unnatural creatures, the Oath of the Watchers from the recent UA makes a good fit. :p

It's great that we'll all a lot more mature, understanding and accepting now. I, for one, would not like to go back to that point in the not-too-distant past when significant numbers of people were saying that 4E was "not D&D".

I kind of feel the same way, but I don't blame WotC. They are just responding to demand or perceived demand, after all. My favorite edition was 4E, so I've been through the feelings of dissonance and disassociation that a significant number of gamers want to buy stuff that I don't want, and...

I think it was an attempt to mimic the effect of dragon breath weapons, which in the early days did damage equal to the dragon's current hit points (save for half).

Wait - I've been doing it wrong? :eek: