4e and me

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Downtime is not part of video games and for the last 20 years, the dominant form of interactive entertainment is video games.

Clearly you never played EverQuest. Fifteen minutes of excitement over the course of four hours of "camping" a room at the bottom of a dungeon.

 

[Kzach]

I’ve been really on the fence the last few months about 4th edition.

That's nice.

I don't suppose a mod could merge this with the three-thousand other identical threads in this forum?

 

[ShinHakkaider]

I have a feeling this thread is going to go down in flames! I don't knock other systems, if I don't like it (after trying it) I don't play it, I don't come into the forums to complain about them.

Exactly.

I dont play 4E but i dont go around randomly bashing it either. I've been following Mike Mearls articles not because I'm interested in taking following in the direction where they might be taking 4E but because they are interesting articles.

But to declare "play what you like" then in the same breath bash another system reeks of disingenuousness.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I have a feeling this thread is going to go down in flames! I don't knock other systems, if I don't like it (after trying it) I don't play it, I don't come into the forums to complain about them.

Not that this thread has much potential, but most of the posts on message board forums about RPGs are "I've got Problem X, can someone help me solve it?" And ENWorld is exceptionally good at solving those problems.

If you don't want to use it as that sort of resource, OK, but it's not an inherently bad idea to do so. My campaign has been greatly improved by soliciting the advice of others.

 

[Traveon Wyvernspur]

That's nice.

I don't suppose a mod could merge this with the three-thousand other identical threads in this forum?

This! It just seems to be another of the same. Everyone has their own preferences to game editions and systems, we don't need to rehash and start more flame wars here and a thread like this will start just that when it starts with the complaints of someone and then we get another person posting about their hatred of another system. It just goes on and on becoming more petty.

 

[Traveon Wyvernspur]

Not that this thread has much potential, but most of the posts on message board forums about RPGs are "I've got Problem X, can someone help me solve it?" And ENWorld is exceptionally good at solving those problems.

If you don't want to use it as that sort of resource, OK, but it's not an inherently bad idea to do so. My campaign has been greatly improved by soliciting the advice of others.

See I understand soliciting for advice, I do it as well and my games are greatly improved when I talk to people on these forums asking for their comments/ideas when running my games. I just don't care for it when people jump on a soap box and start complaining about a particular system. If you want a way to improve a game and are asking for specifics, that's awesome, if you are going to dog on a system for some reason that's a different animal. Not that the OP has dogged on 4E, but the potential of this thread (IMHO) is definitely there to become a flame war, especially when a few posts below someone has already started with the "crapfinder" comment.

 

[qstor]

There are no orcs in Dragonlance. 4e makes no mention of that age-old rule changing that I'm aware of.

Here's the link to dragonsfoot:

Dragonsfoot • View topic - 4e rant

I was referring to this

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page

The link doesn't seem to work. Bill Slavicsek said "So under 4th Edition, we're making every product look like a core product."

Mike

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The link doesn't seem to work. Bill Slavicsek said "So under 4th Edition, we're making every product look like a core product."

That's a pretty ambiguous statement to freak out about.

 

[qstor]

OK A mod can go a head and lock it.

Mike

 

[qstor]

That's a pretty ambiguous statement to freak out about.

The statement was from 2008. I was just that WOTC was going to "shoehorn" the core products into each setting. thats why I mentioned the Orcs in Dragonlance.

Mike