charlesatan
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Bear in mind that 3E has had years of supplements giving it "more options". 4E is just coming out fresh.
Nifft said:Let's be honest, though.
3e has many options, but relatively few viable options -- in the power-gaming sense. How many fighting styles does the effective Barbarian choose from? One.
You can play a Sorcerer with a "non-standard" spell list, and you can play a Barbarian who chooses a bunch of +2/+2 feats in place of Power Attack, Weapon Focus and Cleave, but you do so to your detriment, and reduce the survivability of your group.
Fewer possible options, but more viable options, sounds like a net gain in options for my group.
Cheers, -- N
jasin said:Other than relatively minor things like lack of gnomes, how do you see 4E reducing initial core options? Compared to the initial core 3E options, not the current complete list of 3E options?
Nifft said:1/ Safe bets don't make for big hits; and
2/ The problems with 3.5e are deep and fundamental.
jasin said:Other than relatively minor things like lack of gnomes, how do you see 4E reducing initial core options? Compared to the initial core 3E options, not the current complete list of 3E options?
Celebrim said:Especially considering this is from Mike 'the designer shouldn't tell you how to play' Mearls.
Monkey Boy said:A few weeks ago no one was talking about math being a problem. This discussion all came from a WOTC designer blog. I guess my point here is that while we might have felt that something was wonky we didn't mind. It didn't ruin our game and was not a fundamental problem. We didn't really notice it and we didn't post to message boards about it effecting our games.
Li Shenron said:All of these are minor problem. They do not spoil the game if the players and the DM use some grain of salt, otherwise we would have stopped playing or universally switched to house rules or another system. The majority of groups perhaps use some house rule, but there is no single problem which is house ruled by the majority.
Monkey Boy said:A few weeks ago no one was talking about math being a problem.