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<blockquote data-quote="SWBaxter" data-source="post: 3770396" data-attributes="member: 27926">It seems to me it'd be more accurate to call it an &quot;accident of design&quot;. It ain't the math's fault that a lot of people feel the design only works well over a subset of the level range, after all.That said, claiming that 3E is broken strikes me as pure marketing bulls- er, I mean hyperbole. Just as the run up to 3E saw 2E demonized, the same treatment is now being applied to 3E on behalf of 4E's hype machine. It was clearly possible to run a satisfactory 3E game outside of the alleged &quot;sweet spot&quot;, because many of us did so (and some are still doing so), just as many of us ran satisfactory campaigns in 2E. I'm hoping 4E will be another improvement in the D&amp;D ruleset, but I'm getting kind of sick of hearing that my current game is unplayable, that any enjoyment derived from it is an accident, and so on - passing off such obvious, er, hyperbole as fact is starting to make me think the developers aren't convinced 4E can succeed on its own merits.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SWBaxter, post: 3770396, member: 27926"] It seems to me it'd be more accurate to call it an "accident of design". It ain't the math's fault that a lot of people feel the design only works well over a subset of the level range, after all. That said, claiming that 3E is broken strikes me as pure marketing bulls- er, I mean hyperbole. Just as the run up to 3E saw 2E demonized, the same treatment is now being applied to 3E on behalf of 4E's hype machine. It was clearly possible to run a satisfactory 3E game outside of the alleged "sweet spot", because many of us did so (and some are still doing so), just as many of us ran satisfactory campaigns in 2E. I'm hoping 4E will be another improvement in the D&D ruleset, but I'm getting kind of sick of hearing that my current game is unplayable, that any enjoyment derived from it is an accident, and so on - passing off such obvious, er, hyperbole as fact is starting to make me think the developers aren't convinced 4E can succeed on its own merits. [/QUOTE]

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