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<blockquote data-quote="Irda Ranger" data-source="post: 4500722" data-attributes="member: 1003">I think my current experience is a fairly topical and unique one. I am currently reading both the Rules Cyclopedia and the 4E books for the first time each. So I'm getting a dual &quot;initial impression&quot; from both the old style and the new.They're both kind of frustrating, just in their own way. 4E is boring as heck. I can't read it for more than a page or two before taking a break. I slogged through the combat chapter and just skimmed the class powers - I figure I'll read them when I need to know them.&nbsp; Reading the RC is much easier, in the &quot;curl up on the couch&quot; kind of way, but while reading the RC I am trying to learn the rules, and I have to extract two sentences worth of rules from a page of text.&nbsp; It sure makes learning the rules kind of hard.So I see the problem, but not the solution. They're both well written in their unique ways, but the writing serves different ends.&nbsp; Sort of how the Oxford English Dictionary and The Iliad are both great, but reading them is hardly the same experience.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Irda Ranger, post: 4500722, member: 1003"] I think my current experience is a fairly topical and unique one. I am currently reading both the Rules Cyclopedia and the 4E books for the first time each. So I'm getting a dual "initial impression" from both the old style and the new. They're both kind of frustrating, just in their own way. 4E is boring as heck. I can't read it for more than a page or two before taking a break. I slogged through the combat chapter and just skimmed the class powers - I figure I'll read them when I need to know them. Reading the RC is much easier, in the "curl up on the couch" kind of way, but while reading the RC I am trying to learn the rules, and I have to extract two sentences worth of rules from a page of text. It sure makes learning the rules kind of hard. So I see the problem, but not the solution. They're both well written in their unique ways, but the writing serves different ends. Sort of how the Oxford English Dictionary and [I]The Iliad [/I]are both great, but reading them is hardly the same experience. [/QUOTE]

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