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<blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 3843124" data-attributes="member: 926">What I am very much afraid of is that 4E is going in a direction where &quot;even Fighters have magic powers now!&quot;, overawesomeified WoW/anime approach, such as the &quot;Dragon Tail Cut&quot; thing, th oversized Cloud-like glowing magic swords, goat-horned Teiflings as a core race in the PHB (may as well include catgirls as far as I'm concerned.)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; I had been very much liking everything I saw about 4E until just recently. Elves are now ALL primitive wood-elves, with all of the Tolkien &quot;beings of great power&quot; elements cut out? Oh my God, YUCK!&nbsp; Fighters get Book of Nine Swords style &quot;Super Moves&quot; that equal Fireballs and Lightning Bolts?&nbsp; Gag me with a longsword.&nbsp; I'm really afraid 4E is even MORE of a move away from a simulation of sword and sorcery fantasy stories into a self-referencing modern D&amp;D fantasy power trip.&nbsp; While I'm all for anime and WoW style videogame influence in my D&amp;D, making the basic core of D&amp;D pretty much a clone of Inuyasha, WoW, and Final Fantasy is NOT the style I want my D&amp;D to be.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I'm still being cautiously optimistic about 4E, but I'm afraid my optimism is beginning to slip drastically witch each passing tidbit I hear.&nbsp; And that makes me very sad, because while the early things I had heard had made me very excited, the latest things I have heard have made me very sad.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aaron L, post: 3843124, member: 926"] What I am very much afraid of is that 4E is going in a direction where "even Fighters have magic powers now!", overawesomeified WoW/anime approach, such as the "Dragon Tail Cut" thing, th oversized Cloud-like glowing magic swords, goat-horned Teiflings as a core race in the PHB (may as well include catgirls as far as I'm concerned.) I had been very much liking everything I saw about 4E until just recently. Elves are now ALL primitive wood-elves, with all of the Tolkien "beings of great power" elements cut out? Oh my God, YUCK! Fighters get Book of Nine Swords style "Super Moves" that equal Fireballs and Lightning Bolts? Gag me with a longsword. I'm really afraid 4E is even MORE of a move away from a simulation of sword and sorcery fantasy stories into a self-referencing modern D&D fantasy power trip. While I'm all for anime and WoW style videogame influence in my D&D, making the basic core of D&D pretty much a clone of Inuyasha, WoW, and Final Fantasy is NOT the style I want my D&D to be. I'm still being cautiously optimistic about 4E, but I'm afraid my optimism is beginning to slip drastically witch each passing tidbit I hear. And that makes me very sad, because while the early things I had heard had made me very excited, the latest things I have heard have made me very sad. [/QUOTE]

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