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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shades of Green" data-source="post: 4193284" data-attributes="member: 3297">Minor Fears:Artwork. Many parts of the preview artwork are "dungeonpunk" in the style of later 3.xE books rather than more classical fantasy/medieval styles. I fear that the flavor of the artwork wouldn't fit my preferences (I like more realistic-feeling art).Miniatures. I fear that 4E would be more dependent on miniatures and exact tactical movement. This is a minor fear for me as I'm considering moving to minis (or counters) anyway, but I don't really like having my options narrowed.New races. I am not sure how useful the new races would be in comparison to the previous editions' niche races (gnomes and half-orcs). I don't like gnomes, but I do like half-orcs; but my real concern is how useful the new races would be and how easy they would be to integrate into existing game-worlds. The same goes to the new core-book classes.Major Fears:I fear that there would be too many powers/marks/modifiers per combat turn, meaning more paperwork and tracking to do and thus slowing down things significantly.I fear class ability/power bloat, meaning that there would be too many options to choose from (makes chargen harder) and that creating new classes would involve significant work.I fear that the rules would be too focused on combat, with other activities such as dungeon exploration, wilderness adventuring, stealth and social situations would receive less attention, especially when race/class abilities/powers are concerned. Take the dwarves for example - Stonecunning (a dungeon-exploration racial ability) is now gone.I fear that everything would be magical, or have clearly supernatural powers - including low-level fighters. This would push things towards a high-magic setting, and I like mid-magic or even occasionally low-magic. That would also make the rules harder to use for non-D&D settings such as different fantasy, modern or sci-fi.I fear that the increase in the number of powers/abilities would complicate gameplay, especially when characters such as fighters - formerly the easiest class to play and the refuge of newbies - are concerned.I fear that the whole re-thinking and re-imagining of the basic setting and flavor elements of D&D would go too far, and slaughter some old standbys in addition to the sacred cows.</blockquote>

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