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<blockquote data-quote="Klaus" data-source="post: 7657382" data-attributes="member: 607"><p>A few years back, Rob Schwalb did an <a href="http://www.robertjschwalb.com/site/2011/02/does-format-matter/" target="_blank">experiment </a>on his blog: he took bits of the 4e cleric and reformatted them to match the visual look of previous editions of D&D. Since a couple of my players were coming from long-running 4e games (even though they played 3e before that), I decided to do the opposite: take bits of a 5e class, and reformat it to match the visual cues of 5e. I did this mainly to explain the current spellcasting system, where you prepare (or simply know) spells, and power them through spell slots (without losing the prepared spell).[PRBREAK][/PRBREAK]</p><p></p><p>The major breakthrough was turning the actual Spell Slot into the "daily power" (or "encounter", in the case of a warlock), with the effect being left to the spell the caster chooses to invest the slot into. Cantrips, on the other hand, match the 4e at-will structure as-is (with the actual cantrip being the "at-will power").</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH]66395[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Klaus, post: 7657382, member: 607"] A few years back, Rob Schwalb did an [URL="http://www.robertjschwalb.com/site/2011/02/does-format-matter/"]experiment [/URL]on his blog: he took bits of the 4e cleric and reformatted them to match the visual look of previous editions of D&D. Since a couple of my players were coming from long-running 4e games (even though they played 3e before that), I decided to do the opposite: take bits of a 5e class, and reformat it to match the visual cues of 5e. I did this mainly to explain the current spellcasting system, where you prepare (or simply know) spells, and power them through spell slots (without losing the prepared spell).[PRBREAK][/PRBREAK] The major breakthrough was turning the actual Spell Slot into the "daily power" (or "encounter", in the case of a warlock), with the effect being left to the spell the caster chooses to invest the slot into. Cantrips, on the other hand, match the 4e at-will structure as-is (with the actual cantrip being the "at-will power"). [CENTER][ATTACH=CONFIG]66395[/ATTACH] [/CENTER] [/QUOTE]
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