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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JediSoth" data-source="post: 5047105" data-attributes="member: 13882">4E was out for nearly a year before I finally bought the books and started to run a game of it (so I guess I was never actually on the bandwagon). I loved the ease of prep on the GMing side, but I was surprised how "swingy" combats could be, depending on the mix of characters. (e.g. a handful of regular monsters with many minions - no wizard = LONG combat, 1 wizard = MUCH shorter combat, because the wizard was the only capable of mass damage). Some of my players felt stifled by the lack of RP rules; they felt 4E was only about combats, despite my efforts to try to lead them into RP situations. The lack of non-combat options in their powers tended to make them feel that combat was the ONLY options for their characters (which is more a play-style incompatibility with 4E than a flaw in the system itself, I think).The game was fun while we play it, but it never really felt like D&D to me. It felt more like a fantasy superhero game.I played it for the first time at Gen Con '09. I didn't care much for my experience, which, admittedly, was probably due to the DM and the scenario (a con game tourney module). It really soured me on the game.I haven't played or run 4E since.I'd give it another shot as a player, but not vanilla. Maybe Eberron or Dark Sun when it's available. I'm not sure I want to run it again. I don't really care much for the system as a game for fantasy gaming.I really wish the online tools were available for something like Pathfinder. The ease of game prep is the hardest thing to give up.There was a time when I lamented the loss of all the third party support for D&D, but now, I think the fragmentation of the base, as it were, is a good thing. There are so many new and different games out there now, it makes me feel like I did in the 80s: so many awesome games and too little time to play them all (though it sure was fun trying).</blockquote>

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