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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gothmog" data-source="post: 4445857" data-attributes="member: 317">Great thread Jurgen, and I agree with your 11 reasons 100%.  D&D 4e has brought me back to D&D, and I'm having a blast with it.  Its hands down the best version of D&D I've ever played or run.  A couple other things I really like about 4e:* I can stat and prep a game in almost not time at all.  In fact, I don't really even need the books with me to prep a game now.  I haven't been able to do that since 1e/2e.* Everytime I play 4e, I discover or find something I hadn't noticed before that makes me think "wow, that is awesome!"  On an emotional level, it reminds me of playing 1e as a kid, and discovering all sorts of cool new stuff.* The new default cosmology is 100% pure win.  I really like the Feywild, Shadowfell, Astral Sea, Elemental Chaos, and FAR REALM.  God, I hope we get a book about the Far Realm.* The tone of D&D has changed subtly from super-high fantasy, to a dark and dangerous high fantasy.  Again, good move.* PCs are mortal now, at pretty much all levels.  There really isn't a point at which PCs become immune to harm, as there has been in previous editions.  Even with bumped up hit points, skills, powers, and being more capable, a 1st level adventure in 4e is far more lethal than a 3e game, and players have to play smarter, not more optomized to survive.* 4e is MUCH more modular than 3e, and you can change, add, or remove stuff without having a cascade of unintended effects.* I LOVE LOVE LOVE what they have done with diseases.  Great idea.  I hope they implement some similar rules for curses as well, and use the condition track for all sorts of goodness.Now, a few things that bug me about 4e:* I want more rituals, but thats being fixed.* Same for magic items- but again, thats being addressed.* I'm chomping at the bit for more monsters- MMII can't get here fast enough.  I'm especially interested in critters from the Feywild, Shadowfell, and Far Realm.* I miss the druid and barbarian (not so much the bard), but we'll have Ari's APG and the PHBII soon to address this.* PCs recovering to full health every day and no lasting injuries bugs me, so we houseruled in a system for this.  So far its working well, and has no impact on how well 4e plays.* I'm still on the fence about minions.  I like they are in the game now, but having 1 hp kinda bugs me from a conceptual point of view.  I know why it was done (no bookkeeping), but its somewhat hard to have an internally consistent world with 1 hp minions.  My fix was to give minions 1/4 the hp of a normal critter for their type and level since they are also worth 1/4 the experience.  Most of the time, they still go down in one hit, but for the simulationist in me (yes, I'm a simulationist AND narrativist DM, and I LOVE 4e) it makes me happy. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />* I'd really like some guidelines for creating new powers.  Its not all that hard to do, but I really wish that had been included in the 4e DMG (which is the best DMG to date, both for veternan and new DMs).</blockquote>

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