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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DarkKestral" data-source="post: 4096489" data-attributes="member: 40100">OK, I'll bite. Things I like...I like the unified defense and attack progressions. It simplifies things down a bit, and probably helps maintain balance.I like the bloodied condition. This is tempered by the overall lack of a condition track for other effects...I like that Fort, Ref, and Will are now based on 2 different ability scores each, which makes MAD a little less of a problem. I'm just hoping that there's also something to reward people who invest in stats other than the ordinary ones too.I also appreciate that skills have been consolidated and in some cases renamed for clarity. Action points: Ever since d20 Modern, I've kinda felt that they should have been in D&D. They provide some needed backup for when the dice are against you but you really want to succeed.I like some of the armor rules. I don't like the new masterwork armors in general (some of the names are pretty good, but a lot of seem wonky) but I appreciate the ideas behind the new armor categories.I like that the default is per encounter balancing with some longer recharge resources to let combats go for a while, but eventually make it so players want to quit for the day.I like that 4e gives both spellcasting and martial classes choices about what to do from round to round, so it puts both at roughly similar levels of complexity.</blockquote>