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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JeffB" data-source="post: 4806470" data-attributes="member: 518">I really like 4E and I'm going to answer firstly with my gripes as they are few- 1) I don't like "slave to the grid" combat systems that pretty much necessitate the use of minis, counters, etc.2) I also wish that the game was a bit more gritty and made healing surges recovery a bit tougher.Those are my 2 big gripes and I can live with (or ignore)  pretty much everything else that is a minor grip.What did it get right? Pretty much everything else- I don't really have issue with power systems as everything is right there in a smaller stat block at your fingertip- very little having to reference elsewhere in a rulebook.I love the abstract/vague nature of many rules. I like being able to define things myself.I like that skills are simplified/and reduced in number.I love that the cosmology is very open ended (more of that "vagueness") so I'm  not tied to anything concrete like the Great Wheel- which I actually have loved since the OD&D days-just gets boring after 30 years.I love that the game is extremely DM friendly from a prep standpoint.Like the powers system, the Monster stablocks RAWK! everything right there.I like being able to re-skin powers/monsters- very easy to modify  them for flavor or mechanical need. Lack of buffs and PCs with bandoliers of rods/staves/wands or Golfbag of weapons.</blockquote>