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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4273035" data-attributes="member: 710">4E is good for you if,o You want something new. After 8 years with 3.x, you're feel fatigued and are stretching out for new d20 games (Arcana Evolved, Iron Hereoes, True20, D20 Modern) or even beyond (Shadowrun, Warhammer, Midgard, World of Darkness)o Any of the following things happened to you in 3E- 15 minute adventure day- Over-profileration of spellcasters- Combats being over in less then 4 rounds due to instant death effects or massive damage- By-The-Book DM getting overworked from creating all those levelled or HD advanced monsters, or self-made ones.- Character Creation took to long for youo If you like a system where all classes have their unique shtick, but are all equally useful in combat.o You want easy tools to improvise monsters and stunts without breaking the gameo "Story-Breaking" powers like Fly, Scry, Teleport, Speak with Dead are limited in use and are put at a distinct tier, so you know when you can switch the style of your adventures to suite such powerso You want magical items to have less importance, or make easy house-rules to remove them fully.o You always wanted a "Combat Leader" type character without spells like the Warlord. o You like complex combat systems. (That relies a lot on special maneuvers and powers for complexity)o You like a new cosmology, and find the ideas of the Feywild, Shadowfell, Astral Sea and Elemental Chaos interesting.o Less (no) mechanical focus on alignments3E is good for you if,o You think you're happy with the supplements you got, and you think you will still get a lot of use out of it.o You're interested in adventure material from a proven source like Paizo.o None of the typical problem issues mentioned to 3E every proved problematic for your game, since you avoided it, house-ruled it, it felt right to you, or just never came up. o You want to focus your games on Gnomes, Druids, Barbarians, or Sorcerers. (This will later be reconciled in 4E, but for the moment, it stays a limitation)o You like character creation micro-management like juggling skill points to flesh out aspects of your characterso You have modified the game to suite your campaign, or built a campaign on the 3E rules, and don't want to make a new conversion or start a new campaign. o You like complex combat systems (that relies a lot on spellcasting for complexity.)o You prefer the Great Wheel or have already homebrewed your new cosmology.If you can't decide, try both and eventually continue using both.My group will probably play a few of the Paizo Adventure Pathes for a while, despite being pretty interested in 4E.</blockquote>

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