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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dm4hire" data-source="post: 4623734" data-attributes="member: 14848"><p>When 2e was being brought out I really just wanted them to take everything in 1e and streamline it and put it into fewer books or remove all the conflicting content between the different volumes.  I wanted the same with 3e as there were still no real major differences in how combat worked.  Once I saw 3e I liked what was changed, but my normal group continued playing 2e.  Once 4e was announced I figured there was going to be major changes to it so took the approach that I would at least buy the core and see how it went from there.  Actually I had contemplated just doing that and calling it good, leaving off buying everything.  I liked 4e once I got a hold of it, but like I've said the longer you go with it the less user friendly it feels and I believe that's due to the lack of fluff.  There's no incentive for reading the books for the sake of reading it.  Perhaps part of this problem is that the first setting chosen to convert was FR which has always been heavy on fluff.  I'm not sure it would have worked for Eberron starting off either as that setting was just starting to reallly get fleshed out before the change over.  Maybe they should have just created a new campaign first to get a feel for publics reactions before launching into their more popular settings.  I'm waiting to see if Eberron will have more fluff in it ( I know I said I wasn't buying it, but I'll still look at it on the shelf).</p></blockquote><p></p>

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