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Does 4th edition hinder roleplaying?
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<blockquote data-quote="Grimstaff" data-source="post: 4718545" data-attributes="member: 34880"><p>What an odd rant...<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/yawn.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":yawn:" title="Yawn :yawn:" data-shortname=":yawn:" /></p><p> </p><p>I've heard alot of complaints about 4E, but to posit that 4E prohibits roleplay because a character "can't" suddenly switch to another class mid-campaign seems...nitpicky...to put it kindly. I assume the real problem he's experiencing is not being able to just start leveling his sorcerer as a monk and still keep all his sorcerer powers; if roleplay was really the only consideration, he'd have no problem simply starting over as a 1st level monk...</p><p> </p><p>Also kind of missing the point of 4E multiclassing, which would allow him to replace almost all of his sorcerers powers with monk powers, and proceed solely with monk powers after 11th level instead of taking a sorcerer paragon path, but why let unfamiliarity with the rules prevent a lengthy rant?</p><p> </p><p>The argument might have had more impact with me if he hadn't taken the time to brag about his BECMI/RC collection, in which you can't do what he's complaining about, either...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grimstaff, post: 4718545, member: 34880"] What an odd rant...:yawn: I've heard alot of complaints about 4E, but to posit that 4E prohibits roleplay because a character "can't" suddenly switch to another class mid-campaign seems...nitpicky...to put it kindly. I assume the real problem he's experiencing is not being able to just start leveling his sorcerer as a monk and still keep all his sorcerer powers; if roleplay was really the only consideration, he'd have no problem simply starting over as a 1st level monk... Also kind of missing the point of 4E multiclassing, which would allow him to replace almost all of his sorcerers powers with monk powers, and proceed solely with monk powers after 11th level instead of taking a sorcerer paragon path, but why let unfamiliarity with the rules prevent a lengthy rant? The argument might have had more impact with me if he hadn't taken the time to brag about his BECMI/RC collection, in which you can't do what he's complaining about, either...:p [/QUOTE]
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