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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Riley" data-source="post: 3814168" data-attributes="member: 12870">To answer the title question as it's phrased, maybe.  Won't really know until we see the darned thing.  But from what little we hear, I'm quite hopeful that the sense of wonder you describe will be recaptured in the new edition.I loved 3e because it opened up endless character creation possibilities, and let me make the characters I envisioned without all the house rules and add-ons that 1 and 2e required.  I can't say that the 3e monsters or the fairly flavorless implied setting ever really got me excited.  Mostly, I got excited when new book for the old settings were published.If 3e was all about the characters, it sounds like 4e is all about trying to make the challenges and the world exciting.  As long as the character-building flexibility still rocks, that'll be great.I still love, loathe, and fear green slime.  My favorite 1st ed character, a mid-level wizard, used to carry a backpack containing a large metal box containing a sealed clay pot, containing a small crystal vial of green slime.  And lots of padding between.It was like walking around with a bomb: you could use it destroy anything almost anything animal, vegetable, or metal, but fall into one pit trap and fail a couple item saving throws, and that poor wizard was liable to quickly have his spine turned to slime.</blockquote>