Warpiglet-7
Cry havoc! And let slip the pigs of war!
It isn't my favorite edition of D&D, but I really enjoyed playing 4e. I ran it a bit too.
I liked the way everything was broken down into powers. I liked the mathy part of acquiring magic items as you leveled. I liked the extra crunch of trying to get the various PC powers to combo. I liked the 4 roles (Controller, Defender, Striker, Leader). I liked the monster roles. I liked the sources of power - Psionic, Martial, Divine, and Primal. I liked the tiers going all the way up to Epic level (although I never got that high up). I liked the cosmology. I liked skill challenges, although I don't think I ran them right. I even liked using miniatures in play - heck 2 of my 4 regular D&D games use minis (one I'm playing, one I'm running).
I can't say I was a lover of the default setting (Nentir Vale); but at least they printed up FR, Eberron, and Dark Sun.
Sadly, the method of releases were much more like 3rd ed; and the game eventually petered out as we all know.
I have all the Scales of War adventures in pdf, and even printed up the first 5 or 6 of them, and even have a bunch of the maps printed up (!).
So that's all to say - I'd love to play me some 4e.
Follow your happiness.
I just sold a mint 4e collection. I had various dm and monster kits with unpunched counters and shrink wrapped things still inside.
the books went away too. Some cracked when opened.
we sat down a played a few times and found it colorless. My friends and I play some war games and are not tripped up by crunch per se but the utility and other spells did not pop for us. We tried.
We played 1e until 2000 and skipped 2e. Likewise we dabbled in 3e and skipped 3.5.
find what you like and unapologetically embrace it. The cult of the new is useless. Find the cult of you!
we do like 5e andI doubt I could get the guys to go back. And that’s fine we are having fun...or at least we were pre Covid.
but if they released 6e tomorrow we would likely ignore it. What everyone else like only matters to the extent that you have people to play with. Find your 4e buddies and rock n roll. I apparently like to say piss off to every other edition or half edition apparently.
get what you want from whatever edition you want