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Am I crazy? I've just gotten a hankering to play 4e again...
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<blockquote data-quote="Scrivener of Doom" data-source="post: 7905634" data-attributes="member: 87576"><p>4E is my favourite D&D edition and the one that I currently run. </p><p></p><p>I sometimes think I like it because I'm naturally contrarian and assume that anything as apparently unpopular as 4E must be good.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm pretty sure that was Mike Mearls' influence which resulted in the absolute weakest of the three core books. I recall him explaining at the time that he thought it best that each table have its own monster lore. He also wanted more 1E Fiend Folio monsters in the Monster Manual so we ended up with crap like the berbalang instead of the much more commonly encountered frost giants.</p><p></p><p>Don't forget, the MM stat blocks were also crap (thanks, Mike!). If you study them closely, they seem to be based on three different sets of monster creation rules with little overlap with the ones in the DMG. I began 4E by building my own monsters from scratch according to the DMG rules as it seemed like I had a better grasp of how stat blocks were supposed to be created than Mike and his team who were paid to create the 4E Monster Manual.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, it's just spilt milk now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scrivener of Doom, post: 7905634, member: 87576"] 4E is my favourite D&D edition and the one that I currently run. I sometimes think I like it because I'm naturally contrarian and assume that anything as apparently unpopular as 4E must be good. I'm pretty sure that was Mike Mearls' influence which resulted in the absolute weakest of the three core books. I recall him explaining at the time that he thought it best that each table have its own monster lore. He also wanted more 1E Fiend Folio monsters in the Monster Manual so we ended up with crap like the berbalang instead of the much more commonly encountered frost giants. Don't forget, the MM stat blocks were also crap (thanks, Mike!). If you study them closely, they seem to be based on three different sets of monster creation rules with little overlap with the ones in the DMG. I began 4E by building my own monsters from scratch according to the DMG rules as it seemed like I had a better grasp of how stat blocks were supposed to be created than Mike and his team who were paid to create the 4E Monster Manual. Anyway, it's just spilt milk now. [/QUOTE]
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