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<blockquote data-quote="Retreater" data-source="post: 8171099" data-attributes="member: 42040">I'm reading through the 4e book again to try to convince myself &quot;maybe it's not as difficult as I remember.&quot;Nope. It's bad. Here are things that don't work for me in the system. 1) Fate/Fortune; Resolve/Resilience Having a pair of similar sounding names for characteristics that do very similar things. It's bloated and unnecessary. 2) Success LevelsRoll then subtract your roll from your ability score, round up, get a number and compare to a chart to see how many successes you've earned. There must have been a better way to do this.3) Advancements, Spending XPYou can increase these certain things, but only at certain points, and only to a certain degree, then you need to &quot;complete&quot; that class's path, pay more XP to start another class. WTH?4) Advantage/Disadvantage, Easy/Challenging/Hard rolls You can roll two percentage dice and take the better result if you have advantage (or worse if you have disadvantage). Or you can get a bonus/penalty to the roll depending on circumstances? Why in the name of hell do you have two mechanics to do the same thing?5) Bonuses after Successful ChecksYou have to keep track of all your successes in a row to get bonuses to future die rolls. There's plenty to keep up with in a combat. As a GM, am I supposed to also track this for all enemies? Bad mechanic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Retreater, post: 8171099, member: 42040"] I'm reading through the 4e book again to try to convince myself "maybe it's not as difficult as I remember." Nope. It's bad. Here are things that don't work for me in the system. [B]1) Fate/Fortune; Resolve/Resilience [/B] Having a pair of similar sounding names for characteristics that do very similar things. It's bloated and unnecessary. [B]2) Success Levels[/B] Roll then subtract your roll from your ability score, round up, get a number and compare to a chart to see how many successes you've earned. There must have been a better way to do this. [B]3) Advancements, Spending XP[/B] You can increase these certain things, but only at certain points, and only to a certain degree, then you need to "complete" that class's path, pay more XP to start another class. WTH? [B]4) Advantage/Disadvantage, Easy/Challenging/Hard rolls [/B] You can roll two percentage dice and take the better result if you have advantage (or worse if you have disadvantage). Or you can get a bonus/penalty to the roll depending on circumstances? Why in the name of hell do you have two mechanics to do the same thing? [B]5) Bonuses after Successful Checks[/B] You have to keep track of all your successes in a row to get bonuses to future die rolls. There's plenty to keep up with in a combat. As a GM, am I supposed to also track this for all enemies? Bad mechanic. [/QUOTE]

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