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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 4095623" data-attributes="member: 21169">The need for the battlegrid. My group plays 3e without a battle map. We mostly get by fine, letting the DM adjudicate flanking, AoOs and so forth. It speeds things up quite a bit. I'm concerned that so many powers and abilities in 4e make reference to the grid that it will become almost impossible to get by with only a 'mental map'.Condition tracking. This looks really fiddly and time-consuming. Each encounter involving multiple monsters is going to make this harder than it was in 3e and there seem to be more conditions, too. I remember in a 3e game having difficulty keeping track of who was blinded (glitterdust... grr) and slowed and that was just two conditions.Classes. Are they both balanced and sufficiently differentiated? This is a hard thing to do, something no previous rpg has managed, imo.I won't like it. I was really underwhelmed by the DDXP PCs. I had no interest in playing any of them. That could be a bit of a problem.</blockquote>