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<blockquote data-quote="KidSnide" data-source="post: 4192715" data-attributes="member: 54710">I’m not a big fan of D&amp;Disms either (although I do already have a race of dragon-men IMC).&nbsp; But it seems to me that the D&amp;Disms might be easier to remove than they are in 3.X.The biggest D&amp;Dism is the multi-encounter dungeon model and it’s variant the 5-minute workday, neither of which approximate the type of adventure flow that I want in my heroic fantasy.&nbsp; Also, I found that the spell list itself was annoyingly bound up in the alignment system and the absurd “balance” of magic items.&nbsp; Lastly, the tendency to balance combat ability vs. non-combat abilities generating characters who were totally useless if I wanted to do 5 consecutive combat sessions and other characters that were totally useless if I went 5 consecutive sessions without a combat.Sure, maybe there will be all sorts of new annoying dependencies that I don’t want and haven’t discovered yet.&nbsp; But my current “grass-is-greener” glasses make me think that 4E could be much better than 3.X for allowing a more generic heroic fantasy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KidSnide, post: 4192715, member: 54710"] I’m not a big fan of D&Disms either (although I do already have a race of dragon-men IMC). But it seems to me that the D&Disms might be easier to remove than they are in 3.X. The biggest D&Dism is the multi-encounter dungeon model and it’s variant the 5-minute workday, neither of which approximate the type of adventure flow that I want in my heroic fantasy. Also, I found that the spell list itself was annoyingly bound up in the alignment system and the absurd “balance” of magic items. Lastly, the tendency to balance combat ability vs. non-combat abilities generating characters who were totally useless if I wanted to do 5 consecutive combat sessions and other characters that were totally useless if I went 5 consecutive sessions without a combat. Sure, maybe there will be all sorts of new annoying dependencies that I don’t want and haven’t discovered yet. But my current “grass-is-greener” glasses make me think that 4E could be much better than 3.X for allowing a more generic heroic fantasy. [/QUOTE]

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