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<blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 3999495" data-attributes="member: 3424">If I might draw an analogy between D&amp;D and Lego (or the interconnected building block system of your choice):Older versions of D&amp;D were more like the generic building block sets: it gave you the blocks but didn't tell you what to do with them, so you were pretty much left to yourself to play with them and construct whatever you want.4e appears to be more like the themed sets: the blocks come with instructions that allow you to put them together in a particular way to get say, a house, or a spaceship, or a lion, or whatever. It doesn't mean that you have to use the blocks as suggested (e.g. you can use the lion set and still make something that looks vaguely like a house), but they work best when you do. If you don't, you'll have to leave some specialized blocks unused, or twist them around to their closest approximations in what you wanted to build.Now, it seems to me that WotC is taking the perspective that themed sets with instructions will sell better than generic sets, if only because beginning players will be turned off or intimidated by a large pile of blocks and no suggestions on how to use them, and people like me, who grew up on both generic Lego sets and older versions of D&amp;D, will be using the basic blocks to build whatever they want, anyway.And now, I have the urge to end this post with: But ze blocks are still ze same! ZEE BLOCKS ARE STEEL ZEE SAME!!! <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="FireLance, post: 3999495, member: 3424"] If I might draw an analogy between D&D and Lego (or the interconnected building block system of your choice): Older versions of D&D were more like the generic building block sets: it gave you the blocks but didn't tell you what to do with them, so you were pretty much left to yourself to play with them and construct whatever you want. 4e appears to be more like the themed sets: the blocks come with instructions that allow you to put them together in a particular way to get say, a house, or a spaceship, or a lion, or whatever. It doesn't mean that you [U]have[/U] to use the blocks as suggested (e.g. you can use the lion set and still make something that looks vaguely like a house), but they work best when you do. If you don't, you'll have to leave some specialized blocks unused, or twist them around to their closest approximations in what you wanted to build. Now, it seems to me that WotC is taking the perspective that themed sets with instructions will sell better than generic sets, if only because beginning players will be turned off or intimidated by a large pile of blocks and no suggestions on how to use them, and people like me, who grew up on both generic Lego sets and older versions of D&D, will be using the basic blocks to build whatever they want, anyway. And now, I have the urge to end this post with: But ze blocks are still ze same! ZEE BLOCKS ARE STEEL ZEE SAME!!! :p [/QUOTE]

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