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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4815506" data-attributes="member: 19675">To be completely honest:- I have played every edition from 1977 on, as well as 50+ other RPGs.- I was a cautious optimist upon the announcement of 4Ed.- I disliked most of what I saw in the prerelease, and upon getting the Core 3, was more disappointed.- I will be a cautious optimist upon the announcement of 5Ed.The one clear win I can think of is getting rid of the disjunction between PC level and ability/spell/power level.I can't tell you how many players I initiated into the game who found the whole thing about 3rd level mages not having 3rd level spells to be a brain-warper.  The only other thing I've found that was anywhere near as confusing for noobs was the different scales for Str and all other attributes (that 3Ed did away with).Having Nth level abilities being gained at Nth level (and N+1st level abilities at N+1st level, etc.) is sooooooo much more intuitive.  I can't imagine how much easier it must be for those initiating novices to NOT have to explain that old design quirk.</blockquote>