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<blockquote data-quote="SSquirrel" data-source="post: 3731151" data-attributes="member: 5202"><p>All the planning ahead in the world does you no good if you have to spend all your spells to keep people alive and then you end up w/more encounters prior to resting. That is an example of a class being punished for doing its thing, as has been mentioned in a few other threads and I think at the GenCon sessions.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The story is always important, but if you cast you 4 or 5 spells (low level game obviously) and then just have to stand in th back shooting a crossbow and hoping no enemies get abck to you, how is that fun? Also, there are no dead levels in 4E.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Lucky to find magic items and 1E should never be mentioned in the same sentence. Players needed to have a castle at level 1 just to hold all the loot they got in modules <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C. Clarke</p><p></p><p>There was an old article in Dragon years ago about how D&D would look different if they actually followed the logical extensions of having vast curative, food/water generation, flight, fireballs, continual light, etc. It was very interesting. I know that Ptolus took a lot of the aspects of 3E and followed them to logical conclusions, which I thought was pretty great.</p><p>I think Eberron does a very good job of showing what happens in a society where magic has been around as long as it has. You know if we had D&D style magic in the real world life would be insanely different <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SSquirrel, post: 3731151, member: 5202"] All the planning ahead in the world does you no good if you have to spend all your spells to keep people alive and then you end up w/more encounters prior to resting. That is an example of a class being punished for doing its thing, as has been mentioned in a few other threads and I think at the GenCon sessions. The story is always important, but if you cast you 4 or 5 spells (low level game obviously) and then just have to stand in th back shooting a crossbow and hoping no enemies get abck to you, how is that fun? Also, there are no dead levels in 4E. Lucky to find magic items and 1E should never be mentioned in the same sentence. Players needed to have a castle at level 1 just to hold all the loot they got in modules ;) "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C. Clarke There was an old article in Dragon years ago about how D&D would look different if they actually followed the logical extensions of having vast curative, food/water generation, flight, fireballs, continual light, etc. It was very interesting. I know that Ptolus took a lot of the aspects of 3E and followed them to logical conclusions, which I thought was pretty great. I think Eberron does a very good job of showing what happens in a society where magic has been around as long as it has. You know if we had D&D style magic in the real world life would be insanely different ;) [/QUOTE]
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