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Confirm or Deny: D&D4e would be going strong had it not been titled D&D
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<blockquote data-quote="Stacie GmrGrl" data-source="post: 6578583" data-attributes="member: 86279"><p>4e as a game design for how it was designed was an amazing game for what it was designed to do. It is also the best example of an RPG based on Balance... And it show cased both the positives and negatives of extreme game balance. It was the negatives of this reliance on balance that got me to appreciate games like Heroes Unlimited, where there is no balance at all.</p><p></p><p>On the idea of D&D being a good or bad game... Its a good game if you can buy into the D&D paradigm of its own fantasy genre, but if you want any other kind of game session than its a bad game design. I'm not saying its not fun.</p><p></p><p>I do want to chime in on the FantasyCraft comparison... Yes its a d20 fantasy game, but its classes and magic system are very much built on a very different paradigm. You can do D&D style of games with it AND you can do other styles of fantasy with it as well. Its a vastly superior game to any version of D&D that has none of the problems of your typical D&D style game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stacie GmrGrl, post: 6578583, member: 86279"] 4e as a game design for how it was designed was an amazing game for what it was designed to do. It is also the best example of an RPG based on Balance... And it show cased both the positives and negatives of extreme game balance. It was the negatives of this reliance on balance that got me to appreciate games like Heroes Unlimited, where there is no balance at all. On the idea of D&D being a good or bad game... Its a good game if you can buy into the D&D paradigm of its own fantasy genre, but if you want any other kind of game session than its a bad game design. I'm not saying its not fun. I do want to chime in on the FantasyCraft comparison... Yes its a d20 fantasy game, but its classes and magic system are very much built on a very different paradigm. You can do D&D style of games with it AND you can do other styles of fantasy with it as well. Its a vastly superior game to any version of D&D that has none of the problems of your typical D&D style game. [/QUOTE]
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