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<blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 3711348" data-attributes="member: 25619"><p>Now that I know, I'm glad 4e will be at least partially book-based.</p><p></p><p>Aspects of playing it on a computer that I don't like:</p><p>-- "Products of Your Imagination" replaced with computer graphics.</p><p>-- Battlemat and figurines VERSUS an emersive RPG where characters, not builds, are living in a world, not a game board. Are they trying to discourage "literary", "historical", or theatrical approaches to the game? I describe heraldry, sounds, smells, weather etc. to my players to build mood and because I like doing that. Is the default "tone" for 4e battlemat wars in the generic dungeon?</p><p>-- Loses play anywhere aspects. You mean you can't play it while on deployment in Afghanistan or in prison or on a train or in a middle school library, but only where you have good internet connections and VOIP headsets going?</p><p>-- Can we still roll our own dice? Can DM's still fudge dice rolls and ignore rules, or is it a darn computer game?</p><p>-- Can we still do anything we can think of that the DM think is reasonable, or are characters only allowed to do what the menu says they can do?</p><p></p><p>Still it's nice to have the option of online play, for long-distance reasons.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="haakon1, post: 3711348, member: 25619"] Now that I know, I'm glad 4e will be at least partially book-based. Aspects of playing it on a computer that I don't like: -- "Products of Your Imagination" replaced with computer graphics. -- Battlemat and figurines VERSUS an emersive RPG where characters, not builds, are living in a world, not a game board. Are they trying to discourage "literary", "historical", or theatrical approaches to the game? I describe heraldry, sounds, smells, weather etc. to my players to build mood and because I like doing that. Is the default "tone" for 4e battlemat wars in the generic dungeon? -- Loses play anywhere aspects. You mean you can't play it while on deployment in Afghanistan or in prison or on a train or in a middle school library, but only where you have good internet connections and VOIP headsets going? -- Can we still roll our own dice? Can DM's still fudge dice rolls and ignore rules, or is it a darn computer game? -- Can we still do anything we can think of that the DM think is reasonable, or are characters only allowed to do what the menu says they can do? Still it's nice to have the option of online play, for long-distance reasons. [/QUOTE]
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