D&D 4E 4e PHB Chapter by Chapter

[mxyzplk]

For anyone interested, I'm doing a readthrough and review of the 4e PHB, chapter by chapter, on my blog. I'll be honest, I don't like the game overall, but there's plenty of info in there about the game if you don't have it.


Chapters 1-3: How to Play, Making Characters, and Races
Chapter 4: Classes
Chapter 5: Skills
Chapter 6: Feats
Chapter 7: Equipment
Chapter 8: Adventuring
Chapter 9: Combat
Chapter 10: Rituals

My Bottom Line

 

[mattdm]

Have you actually played a few sessions of the game? A few tactical-only fights doesn't count — have you tried playing it as a full-on invested-in-your-character RPG? 'Cause the "I read through the books and it's awful!" thing is a perfectly valid opinion and all, but not one with much weight.

 

[Mort_Q]

"I read through the books and it's awful!" thing is a perfectly valid opinion and all, but not one with much weight.

This.

 

[Kishin]

Have you actually played a few sessions of the game? A few tactical-only fights doesn't count — have you tried playing it as a full-on invested-in-your-character RPG? 'Cause the "I read through the books and it's awful!" thing is a perfectly valid opinion and all, but not one with much weight.

Are you kidding? This is the stuff the internet is built on.

 

[ZombieRoboNinja]

Thanks you for putting a "4e rips off WoW" comment towards the beginning of several of your chapters, so that I know what I'm getting into.

 

[mxyzplk]

Have you actually played a few sessions of the game? A few tactical-only fights doesn't count — have you tried playing it as a full-on invested-in-your-character RPG? 'Cause the "I read through the books and it's awful!" thing is a perfectly valid opinion and all, but not one with much weight.

You're right, no one who hasn't been playing 4e for at least a month should have an opinion.

You can turn Monopoly into a role-playing game if you try hard enough. The question is whether it's suited to it. If it doesn't pass even a readthrough why bother; there's a hundred other games out there that do. If you like 4e more power to you. I don't.

 

[baberg]

If you like 4e more power to you. I don't.

Thank you for your opinion. I guess we won't see you in the 4e forum anymore then?

 

[Skywalker]

The language names are gayer - “primordial” and “supernal”, for example.

lots of “shifting” (the new, gay term for moving.)

Nothing says "quality internet review" than a couple of deriding homosexual references

BTW what is so gay about "primordial"?

 

[Masquerade]

Nothing says "quality internet review" than a couple of deriding homosexual references

I was just popping in to say the same thing, albeit without the smile.

Ugh.

 

[mxyzplk]

Sorry teh ghey makes you ignore all the actual information in the reviews. Or is it just a gambit to dismiss a differing opinion?