NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charles Dunwoody" data-source="post: 5799700" data-attributes="member: 17927">I played the new D&D at D&D Experience. I'll admit, I was very skeptical but hopeful. Have 4E edition warriors sit down with 3E until I die grognards? Bring back some 1E guys and some kid brand new to RPGs? And we all play together, roleplayers and number crunchers whatever system edition we favor? Yeah right.I won't talk about the mechanics at all, but I will say our DM smiled through most of the game and at one point he pretended to hand me the gold card out of his wallet based on some BS my character was slinging around. He'd played everything from 1E forward and he was pleased.On the other hand, a twelve year old (with his Dad) mostly stuck to what his character sheet had. He did better than I did the whole game from a mechinal standpoint. Monte mentioned advantage in the seminar and as he mentioned a player can gain that. But the young guy didn't use that rule (that Monted discussed in the seminar) and he did great.Monte quote:What we've done now is we have this thing called "advantage" that a DM can hand out if the players set themselves up with a good description.We never slowed down, we never argued, and the DM seemed relaxed and energized. We did need to stay engaged and pay attention since the game rolled along quickly based on the design of the adventure. I could see a DM being able to easily moderate the pace.I've played every edition since AD&D including 4E. Even in rough playtest form, this version was the best. The fact was that I was able to play it with strangers, one from another country and another a kid, and we were all on the same team with some of us yelling out in character and others focusing on what the character could do. And we had a 4E guy that had played all the way to 30th level in his home campaign and another guy who left D&D because of 4E and they worked together well. That was priceless. You can't sell that kind of synergy. Well, you could, if I could pre-order D&D N.I'd say, wait for the playtest docs before making a decision. Even in rough form, I'm convinced the playtest docs will let everyone make an informed decision. The playtest convinced me hands down that I can't wait to get a game going.</blockquote>

Verification