L4W Discussion Thread V

[Son of Meepo]

I've looked at the playtest packets and haven't been too enthusiastic about Next. I'll give it a try once it is in it's final form, but I still really enjoy 4e.

 

[MetaVoid]

4e seems especially good for PbP as it is very strict on allowed actions and mechanical effects (from movement to (de)buffs)

 

[Neil1889]

I've been playing 4e more as a DM in tabletop (8 players and maybe a game with 2 brewing) and I do enjoy playing here. But yes, I did note there was a drop off of some players after the hack. Yes, stonegod is probably right about the loss of momentum.

I'm distinctly underwhelmed by what I see of 5e, but I'll probably try it as player at some point when it is released. I still play AD&D 2e in RL (my DM even uses my own house-rules from back the 80's, 90's), have played 3/3.5, but wouldn't touch that again, preferring Pathfinder or maybe even a house-ruled Cyclopedia.

4e just seems like a breath of fresh air.

 

[Son of Meepo]

4e seems especially good for PbP as it is very strict on allowed actions and mechanical effects (from movement to (de)buffs)

4e pbp can get somewhat tricky when a lot of immediate/opportunity action powers are brought into play. I was in a paragon level game where we literally had to do every round twice. The first time was what the enemies wanted to do, then everyone in the party would post their interrupts and then the DM would have to retcon their actions because at least half of them were no longer valid.

 

[Neurotic]

You could (have) solved that by insisting on PCs writing the triggers and common conditions and only re-do actions if something is really important (like keeping someone alive) otherwise, you didn't specify it didn't happen...

Or contact the PC in question with particular action and ask if he wants to interrupt (but this is more work)

 

[Neil1889]

Well now, Invisible Castle actually appears to be up again as of 3pm British Summer Time (2pm GMT).

 

[treex]

I'm sorry for the lack of activity from me, my laptop is all messed up right now, it can't detect or form cookies or something and I can't login to anything that needs a login. This includes most if not all sites, I can't access Gmail, my facebook, my youtube and it's put me off the internet quite a bit. I'll try to get my lappy fixed ASAP but I wanted to apologize to Dekana and Grimm for my inactivity this past few weeks.

 

[Dekana]

No worries! Emsy will still be there until you get your computer fixed up. Thanks for checking in.

 

[Son of Meepo]

Is this thing on?

http://www.enworld.org/forum/showth...(The-Players-Manifesto)&p=6130373#post6130373

 

[Son of Meepo]

I'm looking at either and adventure for level 4 characters or one for level 6 characters. Do people have PCs of those levels who are not in an adventure?