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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jsepeta" data-source="post: 5661387" data-attributes="member: 77143">4th edition is just fineMy weekly group has been playing 4th edition since the fall of 2008 and we have a blast with it. We are all fairly experienced roleplayers, and the books just give structure and guidance, and with 4th edition especially, a balance of powers that previous versions lacked. If you aren't roleplaying and just want a hack and slash adventure, well then your experience will differ from ours. Some nights we don't even roll dice!Admittedly, combat starts to suck a little at 7th level and up. I don't think that characters' induced damage scales well with the difficulty level of certain monsters/encounters. But it's up to the DM to determine how quickly the enemies fall. Also the rules don't cover much about morale, as if we've vanquished 2/3 of the enemy, I'm not sure that the rest of them would fight until death - they may surrender or flee. But these are minor quibbles compared to the ease of training newbies to play D&D using the 4th edition rulebooks.Now if the character builder was only $30/year instead of $70+...</blockquote>