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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SSquirrel" data-source="post: 5924995" data-attributes="member: 5202">Note, I read thru the first page of 6 (possibly more since I pulled this page up earlier tonite) and I'm just commenting around the general posts we're seeing.Since when do we play a game of casting spells and killing dragons to be realistic? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Your fighter took an arrow in the knee, so now he can't rescue that princess.  Guess she's being fed to the dragon after all.  You all only had 2 days to do it and he'll need 2 days under the cleric's care w/no combat, more if you all get jumped by that band of trolls that has been spotted in the area.  You may as well try to get out of the kingdom now before the king finds out his daughter is doomed.Somehow that seems a lot less fun to me.  I'm all in favor of the 4E way of doing health.  I don't want to sweat what I consider the small stuff, I want my friends and I to be about the business of doing our adventures, saving whoever needs to be saved, killing the giants, assaulting the tower of the wizard, whatever.  Oh yeah, I also fail to see how magic missile as an at will breaks the game, but that is a different thread. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I'm definitely in favor of a wizard spending his day casting magic and not hunkering down w/a freaking crossbow.  This expanded cantrip selection paired w/Vancian is different, but I haven't gotten to try it yet.  Still trying to put a new group together heh.  Have to see how it plays.  I'm one of the Anti-Vancian people, but giving me some actually useful things to do outside of the Vancian system I might be ok.No I'm not new to the game, so 4E is not my only experience.  Basic on up for 24 years or so now.</blockquote>

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