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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vaeron" data-source="post: 4182719" data-attributes="member: 3956">Firstly, my main (not fear, perhaps qualm) is keeping track of marking and status effects.  An article at the wizards site already offers strategies for keeping track of these things with minis - and that does seem to present a problem to those of us who are more imagination oriented than grid oriented.  This isn't really a big deal, I don't think - if anything the "box" shape of all spell effects should actually make determining what's effected by a spell and what isn't even easier for those of us who can't mentally draw cones and radii.  Same with the 1-1-1-1 business.  I'm all for anything that eliminates math.But, I've seen the following a few times, and I just can't see where it's coming from:That's a DMing issue, really, not a 4e issue.  Has anything been released that says PCs will no longer be allowed to talk to NPCs, explore, or have a drunken night out?  If anything, released information says PCs should be rewarded XP for social encounters, traps, AND combat.  I believe a quote even said it would be possible to level up without ever fighting.  A changed combat system changes the rest of the world how, is what I'm wondering.  How one plays the game is how one plays the game, and I don't see that the non-combat aspect of the game has really changed at all.  If anything, it seems to have been enhanced.Rogue means sneaking, stealing, trapping, and backstabbing.  Same as always, as far as I can remember.  A rogue is indeed qualified as a striker now.  But is that really a change from where the rogue stood in 3e?  Standing back and firing a barrage of sneak attack arrows into an enemy?  Or dual wielding a pair of weapons to really bring the hurt home?  But the PHB lite even shows "trickster rogue" as a possible build, emphasizing Dexterity and misdirection, so there are clearly options and alternatives everywhere.Thankfully, a lot of the fears mentioned on this thread are things that don't mesh with the information we've been given.  That makes me think that most of the fears are baseless. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I hope so, at least.</blockquote>

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