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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mephistopheles" data-source="post: 4477573" data-attributes="member: 4460">I played my first session of 4E last weekend and I had a great time. There are issues, of course, but 4E is in good company there.It was refreshing to get a couple of combats in but only spend about one-third of our game session in combat, with the other two-thirds spent on exploration, role play, and a bit of goofing around (it was about a six hour session). So I'll give 4E credit for putting the focus back where I want it to be. I didn't feel 4E leaned on the role play because, to be honest, when we weren't in combat we weren't really playing 4E aside from the odd skill check, we were just playing our characters.Thinking about the session afterwards I think it managed to highlight what I used to love about D&D that I feel was lost with 3E to the overwhelming complexity of the system: I like combat to be fast and not overly technical, and spend the majority of the time on exploration and role play. It's only been one session so far so I'll see how things pan out, but so far so good.I'm sure I'll still be playing older editions of the game, mainly OD&D, BECMI, and 1E, but I certainly won't avoid playing 4E.</blockquote>