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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 5940444" data-attributes="member: 58416">Minions didn't make me feel like a super-hero.Being part of a party which crushed Strahd so badly that he didn't even have a chance to consider turning into mist form to flee before dying sort of did. (Note: he was not by himself)Dominating Orcus to the extent that the DM found it reasonable he would surrender in response to my Warlord's intimidate attempt pushed me closer, but I thought maybe it was a fluke; lucky dice.  Plus, monster math was later changed.Then, the last campaign from 1-30 ended with the party dismantling a level [36 or 37, I cannot remember exactly what we figured out the XP budget to be] encounter so badly that the DM saw no point in doing the second part of the final battle.  (His initial plan was to have two back-to-back encounters as an epic fight to wrap up the campaign; he went so overboard with it due to how easily we had won earlier encounters.)I think super hero is a poor term though.  I'd say that a more appropriate term would be to say that 4E PCs tend toward being Mythic Heroes.  I don't mind that so much if that's what I know I'm going into.  I've played and highly enjoyed games of that style.  What threw me off was that -to me- the preview material and the default campaign fluff of 4E made me expect something closer to a sword & sorcery experience.</blockquote>