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<blockquote data-quote="malkav666" data-source="post: 5818948" data-attributes="member: 70565">I don't know if I need better, faster, smarter. I would definitely like to see them clean up any mechanics they will using from previous editions and make sure they play well. I have never really had the combats take too long problem in any edition of D&amp;D ive ever played. Thats not saying that I didn't ever had a combat that ran too long; this has happened to me. But rather that I didn't experience a combat length issue that I felt was a systemic design problem. So I am not sure if I really need faster.&nbsp; But I would definitely check out faster if it was presented. But I find in practice that I pace my combats to be as long as they need to be. You can tell when your group is done with combat. If they are stacking dice more than 3 die tall, its time to end it bro.Better on the other hand is a hard sell. WOTC has proven to me in the past that their idea of better does not always line up with my own preferences. I am always hoping for better, but its so relative to an individuals tastes that it becomes difficult for me to imagine it being ascribed wholesale to anything really. I could tell you all day that cheddar cheese is better than swiss but without a non-biased unit of measure I could not prove it. I feel one edition of D&amp;D being better than another falls into the same paradigm.As for smarter, I am not sure what that even means. I would like more information on what this smarter D&amp;D is before I make a judgement.love,malkav</blockquote>

[QUOTE="malkav666, post: 5818948, member: 70565"] I don't know if I need better, faster, smarter. I would definitely like to see them clean up any mechanics they will using from previous editions and make sure they play well. I have never really had the combats take too long problem in any edition of D&D ive ever played. Thats not saying that I didn't ever had a combat that ran too long; this has happened to me. But rather that I didn't experience a combat length issue that I felt was a systemic design problem. So I am not sure if I really need faster. But I would definitely check out faster if it was presented. But I find in practice that I pace my combats to be as long as they need to be. You can tell when your group is done with combat. If they are stacking dice more than 3 die tall, its time to end it bro. Better on the other hand is a hard sell. WOTC has proven to me in the past that their idea of better does not always line up with my own preferences. I am always hoping for better, but its so relative to an individuals tastes that it becomes difficult for me to imagine it being ascribed wholesale to anything really. I could tell you all day that cheddar cheese is better than swiss but without a non-biased unit of measure I could not prove it. I feel one edition of D&D being better than another falls into the same paradigm. As for smarter, I am not sure what that even means. I would like more information on what this smarter D&D is before I make a judgement. love, malkav [/QUOTE]

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