4e: big change in essentials: no more daily powers!

[Kingreaper]

So, am I the only one that liked uniform mechanics such every class having the at-will/encounter/daily system?

Because I really didn't like power points, and I hated that they shoehorned them back in.

Power points would have been okay, had they kept the prices the same throughout tiers, and just stopped giving you more after level 10.

They'd be slightly more flexible encounter powers.

As is, the end result seems to be "stick with heroic powers always"

 

[ExploderWizard]

4.5 is here it seems. The biggest question I have is about the software. Will the CB be able to support making characters for both versions and will new material/updates continue to be added for both versions?

 

[Scribble]

Interesting...

I know it's tempting to call it a 4.5, but if they say it all works together-

The emphasis seems to be on them this time around to make sure it all works together in the CB.

I suppose it would be too much to expect an all-daily-powers class some time in the future?

Do something DUDE!!!!


- Meh... I did something earlier today. I'll do something tomorrow.


YOU ARE THE LAZIEST ADVENTURER EVER! (Oh god the goblins are eating my spleen!)

 

[Dausuul]

While above I commented that I agreed this sounded like 4E, after some reflection I think it sounds more like "Book of Nine Swords." The Bo9S effectively replaced the fighter, monk, and paladin classes; but it didn't make anything else obsolete, and you didn't have to use the Bo9S classes if you really liked the old ones.

 

[Shazman]

So as many of us suspected the Essentials line is 4.5, but it will not be called 4.5 becasue Wotc said there will be no 4.5. WotC can call it whatever they want, but if you are messing with the power system of the classes, which is what the whole game is designed around, coupled with the hundred of rules updates since 4E's release, you are getting into new edition territory. If it looks like 4.5 and sounds like 4.5, it's 4.5.

 

[Leatherhead]

Why not call it 4EE?

Or 4E2?

 

[ggroy]

Wonder how many of these crunch changes is related to the "Abyssal Plague" RSE.

 

[Scribble]

So as many of us suspected the Essentials line is 4.5, but it will not be called 4.5 becasue Wotc said there will be no 4.5. WotC can call it whatever they want, but if you are messing with the power system of the classes, which is what the whole game is designed around, coupled with the hundred of rules updates since 4E's release, you are getting into new edition territory. If it looks like 4.5 and sounds like 4.5, it's 4.5.

But if it actually DOES work fine with the existing products?

 

[Shazman]

Then it is 4.5 with a lot of backward compatability (in theory), but it's still 4.5. We'll see how this plays out.

 

[ggroy]

Then is is 4.5 with a lot of backward compatability (in theory), but it's still 4.5. We'll see how this plays out.

Nah. It's really 4.25

PHB1 = 4.0
PHB2 = 4.1
PHB3 = 4.2
Essentials = 4.25