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<blockquote data-quote="Gothmog" data-source="post: 4684349" data-attributes="member: 317">When I first saw the previews for 4e, I was really excited.&nbsp; The designers at WotC were promising to take the game in new and exciting directions that were highly innovative.&nbsp; My group and I had given up on 3.x D&amp;D in 2005- we were just tired of the direction the game was headed for a number of reasons, and it couldn't handle our playstyle without pages and pages of house rules.Once I got the books, I wasn't disappointed.&nbsp; 4e is by far the most player and DM friendly version of the game, and it stoked by creative juices in a way 3e never had.&nbsp; I finally had a verison of D&amp;D where the rules didn't try to constrain DM or player actions, or get in the way of my creativity they way 3e had, but actually encouraged it, while also allowing a lot of player customization of their characters (unlike 1e or 2e, which I still love).&nbsp; I'm one of those weirdos who is a simulationist roleplay-heavy DM at heart, but who found 4e to be a very good game for my tastes with a few rules tweaks that were less than a page long (mostly involving slowing down healing rates and rules for long-term injury).&nbsp; My players also loved 4e, and we managed to get three new gamers into gaming, two of which had tried 3e and had sworn of gaming forever!Now, 8 months after the launch of 4e, I love the game more than ever.&nbsp; Its an incredibly robust and well-designed system, and when I see new material WotC is releasing, my first thoughts are usually &quot;WOW!&nbsp; That is really cool- I never saw that coming!&quot;.&nbsp; The online compendium is an invaluable resource, the character builder is amazing, and Dungeon and Dragon are the best they have been since the early 90s- the DDI is a thing of beauty.&nbsp; My group and I are constantly discovering cool new little details about the system, and all of us are having the most fun gaming we have in our entire gaming careers.&nbsp; For me and my group, 4e is the pinnacle of D&amp;D-ness. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gothmog, post: 4684349, member: 317"] When I first saw the previews for 4e, I was really excited. The designers at WotC were promising to take the game in new and exciting directions that were highly innovative. My group and I had given up on 3.x D&D in 2005- we were just tired of the direction the game was headed for a number of reasons, and it couldn't handle our playstyle without pages and pages of house rules. Once I got the books, I wasn't disappointed. 4e is by far the most player and DM friendly version of the game, and it stoked by creative juices in a way 3e never had. I finally had a verison of D&D where the rules didn't try to constrain DM or player actions, or get in the way of my creativity they way 3e had, but actually encouraged it, while also allowing a lot of player customization of their characters (unlike 1e or 2e, which I still love). I'm one of those weirdos who is a simulationist roleplay-heavy DM at heart, but who found 4e to be a very good game for my tastes with a few rules tweaks that were less than a page long (mostly involving slowing down healing rates and rules for long-term injury). My players also loved 4e, and we managed to get three new gamers into gaming, two of which had tried 3e and had sworn of gaming forever! Now, 8 months after the launch of 4e, I love the game more than ever. Its an incredibly robust and well-designed system, and when I see new material WotC is releasing, my first thoughts are usually "WOW! That is really cool- I never saw that coming!". The online compendium is an invaluable resource, the character builder is amazing, and Dungeon and Dragon are the best they have been since the early 90s- the DDI is a thing of beauty. My group and I are constantly discovering cool new little details about the system, and all of us are having the most fun gaming we have in our entire gaming careers. For me and my group, 4e is the pinnacle of D&D-ness. :cool: [/QUOTE]

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