Dlsharrock
First Post
I played 4e for the first time the other night and I can only agree with everyone who said the game is heavily influenced by WoW. In the first session the following events occured:
The PCs headed straight for the first major city they could find then proceeded to congregate in the city square where they jumped around in a slightly crazy fashion showing off their colourful steeds and telling each other to f**k off.
The game eventually came down to who 'glowed' the most.
The group spent three hours killing 8 bears, 12 wild boars and 4 snow leopards and gained 40 copper pieces for their efforts (which was kinda frustrating for them because a decent battleaxe costs 600gps, heh).
When we broke for diet cokes and pizza I made everyone sit for exactly 16 seconds.
We played a 6 hour session, had a toilet break, but when we came back all the character sheets were corrupt and the table had crashed through the floor, so we had to start over. I kicked off the new game with an exciting scenario in which the PCs have to find and kill 8 bears, 12 wild boars and 4 snow leopards. Man, that was a memorable plot hook.
The players in my 4e group seemed to spend most of the session picking the core books to pieces in order to figure out the best way to cheat, then proceeded to make careers out of selling gold at massively inflated prices to my 3.5e group and selling their techniques online. My 4e group all now drive super cars and date models.
Despite everyone concerned knowing the game was, fundamentally, a bit crap, we all spent 5 days longer than originally intended playing the bloody thing and when we emerged, pasty faced and blinking into the daylight, we all found we'd lost our girlfriends and our jobs.
The PCs headed straight for the first major city they could find then proceeded to congregate in the city square where they jumped around in a slightly crazy fashion showing off their colourful steeds and telling each other to f**k off.
The game eventually came down to who 'glowed' the most.
The group spent three hours killing 8 bears, 12 wild boars and 4 snow leopards and gained 40 copper pieces for their efforts (which was kinda frustrating for them because a decent battleaxe costs 600gps, heh).
When we broke for diet cokes and pizza I made everyone sit for exactly 16 seconds.
We played a 6 hour session, had a toilet break, but when we came back all the character sheets were corrupt and the table had crashed through the floor, so we had to start over. I kicked off the new game with an exciting scenario in which the PCs have to find and kill 8 bears, 12 wild boars and 4 snow leopards. Man, that was a memorable plot hook.
The players in my 4e group seemed to spend most of the session picking the core books to pieces in order to figure out the best way to cheat, then proceeded to make careers out of selling gold at massively inflated prices to my 3.5e group and selling their techniques online. My 4e group all now drive super cars and date models.
Despite everyone concerned knowing the game was, fundamentally, a bit crap, we all spent 5 days longer than originally intended playing the bloody thing and when we emerged, pasty faced and blinking into the daylight, we all found we'd lost our girlfriends and our jobs.
