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<blockquote data-quote="Perram" data-source="post: 4923328" data-attributes="member: 84740"><p><strong>The Setup</strong></p><p></p><p>A few months back, I drifted away from 4e for a variety of reasons I won't bring up here. While not all of those reasons have remedied themselves, I am liking the new tone that Wizards has lately, and since I still have a complete collection of 4e material save their published adventures... I don't want to let it just go to waist sitting on my bottom shelf (next to my old Paladium books and the 1e Earthdawn book that is held together by duct tape and a prayer.)</p><p></p><p>We aren't interested in a world change. Paizo's Golarion is a perfect fit for our backdrops, and their campaign setting material is, in my opinion, one of the best currently being published.</p><p></p><p><strong>My Style</strong></p><p></p><p>I like to describe my style of DMing as this: My games are like a Saturday Morning Cartoon. Very high action, very cinematic with a focus on cool, not a lot of PC death, episodic in nature (but with a few reoccurring BBEGs that have their hand in every few adventures), and a lot of focus on the RP between the characters and the NPCs at their 'home base' location. (keep, city, town, whichever.)</p><p></p><p>Currently I'm filling my needs with Pathfinder, using <a href="http://www.montecook.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?mc_diary14" target="_blank">Hero Points</a> to help lend that cinematic feel to the game. My only complaint is that I want to spice up combats a bit more than I've been able, and I would like to reduce my prep time a bit.</p><p></p><p>I've talked things over with my players, and they are willing to play just about anything I decide on, converting their characters over to the system of my choosing. We've done this several times over the ears, so system switch isn't something we aren't used to.</p><p></p><p><strong>The Question</strong></p><p></p><p>So, 4e, can it help me here, or no?</p><p></p><p>(my main interest is in 4e, but if anyone knows of a /perfect/ game system for my style of DMing, let me know.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Perram, post: 4923328, member: 84740"] [B]The Setup[/B] A few months back, I drifted away from 4e for a variety of reasons I won't bring up here. While not all of those reasons have remedied themselves, I am liking the new tone that Wizards has lately, and since I still have a complete collection of 4e material save their published adventures... I don't want to let it just go to waist sitting on my bottom shelf (next to my old Paladium books and the 1e Earthdawn book that is held together by duct tape and a prayer.) We aren't interested in a world change. Paizo's Golarion is a perfect fit for our backdrops, and their campaign setting material is, in my opinion, one of the best currently being published. [B]My Style[/B] I like to describe my style of DMing as this: My games are like a Saturday Morning Cartoon. Very high action, very cinematic with a focus on cool, not a lot of PC death, episodic in nature (but with a few reoccurring BBEGs that have their hand in every few adventures), and a lot of focus on the RP between the characters and the NPCs at their 'home base' location. (keep, city, town, whichever.) Currently I'm filling my needs with Pathfinder, using [URL="http://www.montecook.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?mc_diary14"]Hero Points[/URL] to help lend that cinematic feel to the game. My only complaint is that I want to spice up combats a bit more than I've been able, and I would like to reduce my prep time a bit. I've talked things over with my players, and they are willing to play just about anything I decide on, converting their characters over to the system of my choosing. We've done this several times over the ears, so system switch isn't something we aren't used to. [B]The Question[/B] So, 4e, can it help me here, or no? (my main interest is in 4e, but if anyone knows of a /perfect/ game system for my style of DMing, let me know.) [/QUOTE]
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