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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tymophil" data-source="post: 5755335" data-attributes="member: 46923">Yes, they give you a flavour text, it is a step in the right direction. This is a feature I point people to when they say that D&D4 is a "rules only" system.Unfortunately, the designers did not emphazise that heartening and guiding is related with other mechanism (hp, bonus to hit, etc.). Flavour text was a step in the right direction, but, in my humble opinion, it should have been doubled with a flavour text or examples, describing those effects, in the rules for the DM and players alike. For exemple, it should have made clearer that there is a strong link between confidence and hit points. In fact, designer notes were needed for both beginners and veteran alike. I miss them in D&D4... For example, they would have been useful to point the veteran to those flavour texts like you did.Moreover, in the introductionary adventure (Keep on the Shadowfell), there should have been lots of advices/examples/situations/scenes where the link should have been strikingly evident.In fact, I think the designers of D&D4 were overconfident. They seem to have thought that the new edition of D&D would be accepted smoothly... They included some rules/mechanisms that meant a shift in some basic features of D&D (AC, powers, hp, etc.) and did not stress the shift...In a nutshell, my point is that D&D4 has many (most) of the ingredients required to build a believable fictionnal reality... But it takes quite a fair amount of energy from the user (GM and player) to make them surface.</blockquote>

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