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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 4720202" data-attributes="member: 82106">Hmmmm.Well, if you haven't played 4e basically as written for a while it may be worth giving it a good spin. It certainly DOES strike you at first as being weird. Things are a good bit different than in 1e/2e (I never did play 3e). However, it plays pretty well, once you just abandon the idea that it is just about the same as older editions.The problem(s) with the old style spell system are obvious. Your idea might solve them, but the 4e system DOES solve them. So it is really a matter of taste. One thing you can be pretty sure of though. A complete rewrite of the 4e spell system IS going to be just that, a total rewrite. Once you start down that path, you're going to have to pretty much ditch about 95% of what is in 4e for spell caster powers. They are just not really equivalent to the older spells at all, and because of the way numbers add up precisely in 4e to balance everything it is quite hard to just fudge with it a little bit.</blockquote>