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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8980434" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Make it drip with aesthetic style, but also make sure it preserves as much as possible ease of reading, both in the sense of "easy to digest" and in the sense of "easy on the eyes," since the former is useful for new players and the latter for long-time players who <a href="https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/george-washington-calms-down-the-newburgh-conspiracy" target="_blank">have grown not only grey but almost blind</a> in the service of their campaigns <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    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />Nentir Vale (and the wider cosmology of the World Axis) is very good for 4e, so I would probably keep it. If I chose anything else, it would be Chris Perkins' Iomandra, mostly because he built it for 4e and it is really damn cool. Strong potential for "monster of the week" play because the world is mostly an archipelago.If you want an adventure path, go with Zeitgeist. It was originally for 4e, and everything I've heard says it's among the best.You can also construct one from a sequence of adventures that run up through like...mid-paragon, I think? I don't remember the specifics, but I know Cairn of the Winter King, Reavers of Harkenwold, and The Slaying Stone are part of it. I believe Remains of the Empire is usually also thrown in somewhere, and if you can squeeze it, Madness at Gardmore Abbey.From this and other things I've seen, you could probably assemble at least two full "heroic tier" adventure paths of solid, well-regarded adventures.I think it's fine. I don't think you would get much benefit from trying to make an omnibus book. Maybe you could get away with trimming down the Monster Manual, merging it into the DMG, and then bulking up the PHB to match (e.g., throw in some of the PHB2 classes)? I definitely don't think it would work well as a single volume, it would cover too much ground.Rework the "power card" format so that it feels more naturalistic, while preserving its quick-read functionality as much as possible. There has to be a better happy medium between "literally read three paragraphs before you know what this spell actually DOES" and "sterile six-line description."Simplify structures with parallelism wherever possible. E.g., don't have 17 armor proficiency feats. Have one armor proficiency feat that can be taken more than once, increasing your armor proficiency in sequence (starting at "cloth/none," going leather, hide, chain, scale, plate.) Have one Superior Offensive Proficiency feat, which has as its text that you may choose any superior weapon or implement. Etc. This wouldn't eliminate all of 4e's feat woes, but it would help a lot, and actually make 4e easier to learn without sacrificing its richness.There's probably more but I'm sleep deprived so that's all that comes to mind right now.</blockquote>

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