6 months later: impressions of 4e

[Greg K]

In the OBE pipeline, Fred and Jonathan Walton have a neat product coming out next week called Cultures. It's sort of a PC race "tweaker" founded on interesting ways to look at racial norms.

Justin,
This is exactly the type of product that I have wanted to see since 1e and would have been willing to buy for 3e. If you guys ever do a product like this for 3e, I would definitely be interested.

 

[DandD]

One of the goals of 4E was to eliminate the 3.5E "sweet spot" (approximately 3.5E levels 5 through 10) that many felt existed.

I think you rather mean extend, not eliminate.

 

[Oldtimer]

2) Yes, cards are nice. I've also found that a well-constructed program that generates PDFs à la the character sheets of KotS (where every power has its values precalculated) works fine. And it saves me the time to cut out all those cards.

Where can one find such a program?

Well, my answer to that would have to be; you write it yourself. I realise that it might not be the answer you hoped for, but it's the only one I have, since that is how I obtained it.

Considering that it's in swedish, it might not have been too useful for you anyway.

 

[Amphimir Míriel]

Well, my answer to that would have to be; you write it yourself. I realise that it might not be the answer you hoped for, but it's the only one I have, since that is how I obtained it.

Considering that it's in swedish, it might not have been too useful for you anyway.

Oh, well... time to pull out the books and see if I can program something

Thanks anyway Oldtimer!

 

[JoeGKushner]

WRT the too-many-hps issue, one of the WotC designers at one of the Gen Con panels (I forget which one), said you could easily just halve all of the monsters hps and not have a problem. In fact, I got the feeling he was encouraging it.

For my part, I'm liking 4e more and more the more I play it. And, on a somewhat related note, 4e is an absolute dream to design/write for. It's really re-ignited my design fire.

Poisoncraft 4e? Come on man, the rules practially bag for it now that poisons and diseases are much more... interesting.

D'oh! Teach me to post before reading the whole thread.

And the one I'm most excited about: The first installment of Poisoncraft for 4e, which will be a feature on the syrallax, including a couple of versions of the monster, a new poison, and a full encounter. We've also got some exciting news related to the product that I can't announce yet.

 

[Tetsubo]

Six months out I still don't consider 4E to be D&D.

Ask again at any future date and I'm still not going to think it's D&D.

 

[frankthedm]

Some awesome ideas, some very well done math, but a very ridged and slightly flawed start. The officially endorsed power creep is a real shame. Fireseed, a first level, ranged burst 1, at will that automatically kills minions is a fine example of making things too good already.

 

[Oldtimer]

Six months out I still don't consider 4E to be D&D.

Seven months... seven months... why won't anyone listen to me...

 

[nightwyrm]

Seven months... seven months... why won't anyone listen to me...

Some people are so traumatized by 4e that they lost a month from their minds.

 

[Tetsubo]

Some people are so traumatized by 4e that they lost a month from their minds.

See, 4E is harming the gaming community...