D&D 4E 4e is Cool :)

[Istar]

After 30 years of 2e we have been doing 4e since it came out.
Finding it really cool.

The campaigns are set out well with great terrain and different scenarios.
The secondary skills really come into play with terrain and trying to do certain activities.

Great to be able to develop a character, no 2 PC's could ever be the same.
Great options, love it, especially now all the errata has settled down.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[NewJeffCT]

I started 4E a little over a year ago. I'm the DM, like I was in 3.5E before that... it's certainly much easier on the DM than 3E/3.5E and combats run much faster.

Glad you love 4E - seems like a good game so far to me, though I'm still adapting to encounter building.

Big jump from 2E to 4E - did you just not have interest in 3E or 3.5 or Pathfinder?

 

[DragoonLance]

Most of the players in my current game are the same way, they last played 2nd ed, skipped 3rd and are now playing 4th. I also notice that they seem to prefer essentials characters for the most part.

In almost every case they graduated from high school and stopped playing D&D, 3rd simply wasn't on the radar because they weren't playing. They wouldn't even have known about a new edition of D&D if it wasn't for me mentioning that I DM to one friend who joined my other game, then told all his old school friends that he was playing again. So now I run a second game for 6 players, only one of which ever played 3rd, 4 of them played 2nd and one is a newbie.

 

[darkwing]

Glad to hear you're having fun! I'm also glad your encounters make good use of terrain. The tactical combat is pretty awesome for an RPG.

 

[Shadus]

I'm glad to hear form someone who respects the old and the new. I hear soooo many complaints from people who played older versions and refuse to like 4e, branding it before they put any real effort into studying the game.

Kudos for being adaptive.

Mod Note: This thread about liking a game was going well, until someone here decided to take a potshot at people. Edition Wars are supported in part by our collective inability to resist making uncalled for jabs. Please, love the game you love, and leave the folks who don't out of it. ~Umbran

 

[Istar]

We were just set in away and didnt want to change so we just stuck with advanced dungeons and dragons as we were comfortable with it.

We did look at the new versions but they kept changing the game so we didnt bother.

Even if they go to 5e we will probably stick with 4e as it took us so long to get used to it, as it is vastly more complicated.

What is interesting, is that we knew the old 2e Monster Manuals allmost by heart and knew exactly what enenmy would bring to the table.

The fun of 4e is that I have absolutely no idea what weird powers the enemy is going to throw up so its quite exciting, from rats stealing valuable surges to stinking festering Duergar shooting wads of their beards at us and sending globlets of puking fumes at us in burst attacks.

Its Hilarious.

At low levels we found Dogs in particular were incredibly tough and still scares teh party at 5th level.

 

[Istar]

We are overcoming some of the problems we found with 4e.

1. Fights taking so long to complete: we have a clear order of turns and try to speed it up.

2. Endless Errata - has finally stopped thank god.

3. Managing status effects on party and enemy.

4. Complex rules - we have learnt and understand most stuff now.

The options creating charactes is massive so there is no way any of us would want to go to Essentials as its allmost back to 2e with set things you get at certain levels.

The defined squares and maps that go with the game, ala Warhammer, give D&D a greater tactical appreciation which I enjoy.

The time spent in battles can take away roleplay, we feel we had more creativity and expression in 2e, but the great rule system that covers most things is very helpful once you understand it.

The great maps and how in these major campaigns the developers have brought the environment into the battle is cool.

Elemental energy trench's running through a battlefield, enemy sliding you into them, where you take damage and your attempts to get out.
Really adds to the game.

 

[Dice4Hire]

I am playing 1E, 3.5 and 4E right now and I am enjoying them all, for different reasons.

It is nice to have the choice.

 

[Infiniti2000]

[MENTION=55066]Dice4Hire[/MENTION], "must spread XP before..."

Anyway, I was gonna XP you and comment, it must be nice to have the time to have the choice. 3 games? That's just crazy talk!

 

[Nemesis Destiny]

It is nice to have those kinds of options. Our group plays a couple other game systems from time to time, like Shadowrun or Call of Cthulhu, but we only have one game running at a time, usually. Mostly it's D&D, and we've kind of decided to stick with 4th edition.

Some of my group would be just as happy to go back to AD&D, or other systems entirely, but we can all agree on 4th. I'd like to give Pathfinder a go sometime. In fact, if one of our group hadn't been so insistent on us trying 4e, that's what we'd be using right now. That, or E6.

Now, I think more of us would be willing to go back to legacy systems, but only if it suited the flavour of what stories we were trying to tell. Any time it comes up, we usually don't get too far without hearing, "yeah, I'd love to do 2e again, but I'd have to backport a bunch of rules! I'd miss x, y, or z from 4th!"

Honestly, the thing I love most about 4th edition is how easy it is to add houserules, and how straightforward it is to DM! It's a huge plus for me.