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<blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 5519060" data-attributes="member: 58416">I think there's some truth here.&nbsp; It's actually what prompted me to look outside of D&amp;D.&nbsp; While I do enjoy D&amp;D, there were a lot of things I wanted to do with encounters which were poorly done using 4E.&nbsp; That's not really a fault with the rules; the rules are simply built upon a set of assumptions about play style which sometimes clashed with my own.&nbsp; This lead to a lot of frustration on my parts.So, not surprisingly, there are probably plenty of old posts I made on the WoTC forum which started to veer toward 'h4ter' territory.&nbsp; I kept trying to tweak the rules and get what I wanted, and I kept feeling as though the game was letting me down.&nbsp; It wasn't; I was just trying to use them to do some things they weren't -from what I can tell- made to do.I tried a few other games, and found some that were better equipped to tell some of the stories I wanted to tell.&nbsp; Since then, I'm better able to enjoy 4E when I play it because I've come to accept that it does what it is meant to do.&nbsp; Instead of trying to work against the system, I've accepted that I need to temper some of my ideas and work with it.&nbsp; I still do make a lot of tweaks to how skill challenges work, but that's a topic worthy of its own thread.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Argyle King, post: 5519060, member: 58416"] I think there's some truth here. It's actually what prompted me to look outside of D&D. While I do enjoy D&D, there were a lot of things I wanted to do with encounters which were poorly done using 4E. That's not really a fault with the rules; the rules are simply built upon a set of assumptions about play style which sometimes clashed with my own. This lead to a lot of frustration on my parts. So, not surprisingly, there are probably plenty of old posts I made on the WoTC forum which started to veer toward 'h4ter' territory. I kept trying to tweak the rules and get what I wanted, and I kept feeling as though the game was letting me down. It wasn't; I was just trying to use them to do some things they weren't -from what I can tell- made to do. I tried a few other games, and found some that were better equipped to tell some of the stories I wanted to tell. Since then, I'm better able to enjoy 4E when I play it because I've come to accept that it does what it is meant to do. Instead of trying to work against the system, I've accepted that I need to temper some of my ideas and work with it. I still do make a lot of tweaks to how skill challenges work, but that's a topic worthy of its own thread. [/QUOTE]

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