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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Krakenspire" data-source="post: 6473044" data-attributes="member: 6787754">I've played a number of editions but have mostly played 4E with proper rules (as I was to young to fully understand the older editions specifics).  My gaming group has a lot of tactical gamers in there (Game-workshop junkies) so the miniature combat was relatively quick and easy for us, and the different monster miniatures and PC miniatures that could be purchased and painted really appealed to their hobby side.  Not that anything is stopping us in 5E.As a DM  I found that the strict treasure guidelines were excellent in 4E and did not require balancing as much as the current 5E treasure guidelines (so roll 8 times on the horde table before 5th level.... or somesuch).  I'm not sure where the treasure sweet spot is yet, but I suppose that's ok in some ways.  The fact that you have more flexibility to make spells, own property/buisnesses, create magic items etc... actually makes the game more creative and varied.  No longer do you have to worry that the taxes from a high level PC's land grant will be funneled into magic weapons and armour thus unbalancing your carefully constructed 4E environment.  Reduced power on magic items and bounded accuracy go a long way to evening out treasure issues.I do love a good min/max and 4E played into that quite a bit, but without the online building tools it was often difficult to get everything you wanted in a PC.  Bounded accuracy again comes to the rescue here, and PC can be great even with so/so stats, even at higher levels.What I don't overly like about 5E is the annoying monster spell slots.  Extremely irritating and just requires to much record keeping for a DM for an NPC spellcaster.  Like I can remember what all the spells do.  4E did an excellent job simplifying spellcasters and giving monsters each a personality vice a bag of hitpoints.  Also I miss my minions.  I'm sure I can create some but there was something exceedingly satisfying about throwing a bunch of 1hp kobold minions at PCs and having them burn through the hordes relatively quickly.  Not quite the same in 5E.Edit:  I also miss my warforged and the artificer class.  Loved the 4E artificer, and the character I built with it.  Not sure how I can do that in 5e...yet</blockquote>

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