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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6244633" data-attributes="member: 6696971">I would say that "it will be missed" but I'll still be playing 4e so no problem!  I'm a big fan of unified class mechanics and unified resolution systems.  I've yet to witness the "sameness" that apparently manifests at other tables.  Despite the unified power structure, Fighters are mechanically and within the fiction different than Wizards in the extreme at my table (and everyone else is for that matter).  Its ridiculously easy to balance.  It makes it easy to come up with new, balanced classes, themes, etc.  It makes the budget of damage and effect (condition, forced movement, et al) easy to discern.  It plays seemlessly with the stunting system and reduces mental overhead and table handling time on player invocation of and GM adjudication of stunts within that system (which feedsback into and from the unified power structure and its math).  It feeds back from and into the trap and hazard system (with the tight math), making it absurdly easy to create balanced, predictable (GM-side) challenges on the fly.If I was playing 5e, I would say that I'll miss AEDU and[sblock]keywords, forced movement and the dynamism it allows for, overt functional math overlaid by mutable/malleable fiction (outcome based design), disease/curse track, the math that makes the trap/hazard and stunt systems ridiculously user-friendly for GMs, the empowerment of the quest system as an overt player flag for what content they wish to engage with, broad descriptor skills, mutable/open descriptor power fluff constrained by those keywords, unification of non-combat challenge resolution and how it is determinative of challenge outcomes (while married to fictional positioning), healing surges as an open descriptor attrition tool to tax PCs and to make offers with, director and actor stance tools for all PC archetypes, the focus on the scene and the tight and predictable encounter budget math, the focused thematics of Theme, Paragon Path, Epic Destiny that guides play at the various tiers.[/sblock]5e's Backgrounds and Monster Lair dynamics are the nifty parts of the system in my estimation.  It would be nice if they leveraged what makes those so good (for my playstyle) and built modules for the rest of the system around what those are premised upon.</blockquote>

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