A Thread For Those Somewhere In The Middle

[Green Knight]

If you hate 4e already, don't post in this thread.

If you love 4e already, don't post in this thread.

I love what I've heard about 4E so far, but I loathe 99.9% of what I've heard about the 4E Realms (Forgotten Realms being my favorite setting). Where does that put me?

 

[Hussar]

Hmm, I don't really disagree with any of that (but who says male drow weren't loved, they where the wizard/magic users afterall).

If anything, this shows the genius of the old approach. No beholder, no problem. Want to use beholders: no problem. Same goes for the Throne of the Gods and lots of other things. But all this set a certain tone for those DMs looking for inspiration. (Style is also good for the PCs, but again my point is how you work it in, and it can be indirect). (Also, on those artifacts, many where not created by Gygax--ie eye and hand of vecna--and many are actually pretty general).

So, the genius of the old approach was to give you all this setting specific stuff that you could use, so long as you stuck to that setting, or you could simply not use. You could ignore the racial relations table, or you could use it.

How is that any different than now?