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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daven" data-source="post: 5736690" data-attributes="member: 61401">I think that Analysing Cook's proposal we should forget about 4E.I think he is talking about a game in which a wizard at 1st level has a choice of about ten spells, in which a fighter can only swing the sword (or axe... forget polearms), in which rogues can not backstab until 3rd level... and so on.A game in which difficulty is proportional with pc-level. Do not concentrate too much on how could 4e be presented in a way of these, because it's impossibile.Sostantially he is proposing a totally different game, very simple at the beginning, very hard at the end.I think that this is the most absurd thing that he has proposed until now. The worse, the "donotplayd&danymore"-thing.I hope that he will not go in this way...When we played d&d in the past, we had this kind of presentation (I think at BECMI), and I found it a nightmare: "where is that damn rule that i red one time?", "Look, wow, now I am 4th level and I've learned to swim! Wow", "Ah, ah, now that I am 9th, I can finally have more copies of my spellbook! Tremble rogues!" and so on..."Few rules, many exceptions" is the keyphrase for 4e (and 3e apart from the spells). I do not find it very difficult to learn. Even a friend of mine that did not read any d&d-rulebooks in his life (15 years of playing), has played d&d 4e without any problem. It is so standardized that it is easy to remember. In 3 years of playing of 4e, it was 4-5 times that I red a rulebook during playing.I know, its entry level is tough, but not so difficult to read and remember one thousand rules like it would be if Cook's idea takes place.P.S.: I add a thing: my opinion would change a lot, if this kind of presentation would be parallel to a more evolute presentation, like a compatible d&d and Advanced d&d. If they do two or even three lines of products, in which there are the same rules, but presented in a different way, I can like it. For example, if they did the Essential line in a very simple way like this, it would have been an entry line for new players. Certainly it would be better done before the "hard" game, not after.</blockquote>

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