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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6134828" data-attributes="member: 82106">I don't see you as a critic or a supporter or anything else especially. I thought I made it pretty clear, its easy to hack. Its also easy to reskin. I am not sure what "configurability" is. I don't know of any configuration that is done with 4e. Either you reskin things, or you 'homebrew'. I'd say there are a few types of it. There is simple addition, ranging from a new item all the way to adding a whole class. There is modification, changing some elements, and there is subtraction, removing some elements. Those types of homebrew are just taking things a bit further than reskinning, the core rules of the game stay the same. You can also add rules, subtract rules, and alter rules.When it comes to changes to game elements I don't see it being any harder to add a class, race, feat, item, power, etc to 4e than it would be to add analogous elements to previous editions. Its uncommon in 4e to have a class refer to another class' power list, but not unheard of, and it isn't any less useful a technique than it was to borrow a spell list in 3e. If you allow for that, then I think 4e stuff is perfectly easy to homebrew. Removing stuff is of course trivial, and here 4e is rather ahead of most previous editions, even 3e, where deleting something like say clerics requires rather serious reworking of the rest of the system (IE DS started everyone at level 2 and gave all PCs psionics to make up for lack of healing). Changing rules is of course always the most likely to break things. Yet I've heard of many alterations being done on 4e, and some have become quite widely practiced. I don't see any evidence that 4e accepts such changes any less easily than 3e, 2e, or OD&D did. Clearly there are various things you can do easily and other things that might be harder. Making 4e into a low power game with weak characters that die quickly would be kinda hard. OTOH it should be and is trivial to add many types of subsystems. I've seen reputation, code of honor, RP mechanics, different magic systems, etc all added on without any huge problem. I think the thing that usually puzzles me is that you'll hear someone say its easy to add to 2e and then mention some horribly unbalanced nightmarish 2e supplement that IMHO is a poster child for "broken system addition" and then complain that you can't add anything to 4e because gosh it might add 1.5 DPR to some striker class. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></blockquote>

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