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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wayne62682" data-source="post: 4974402" data-attributes="member: 40455">As much as I enjoy 4E, I have to say: This.  Especially since my DM doesn't realize the game wasn' "done right" and that we need masterwork armor and expertise bonuses, and happily plays the game as though everything is peachy without them (granted the other players can take the Expertise feats, but they don't realize it's needed either because they are only casual gamers and don't read the forums or have D&DI at all) even though our AC is lower than it should be so we get hit a lot more often by creatures.When I mention that we should have x instead of y because it fixes the math he gets frustrated and goes on a rant about how D&D is exactly the same now as it was back in the old days and all this stuff is just for powergamers.  Then he wonders why I post threads on the WotC boards asking how to deal with him when he's putting us up against fights 4 levels higher than us all the time and thinking that he can run published adventures verbatim and let us skip through parts of it but still not change any encounters to compensate for the fact we're lower level!Off on a tangent but I wish that the published adventures would point out in the text where the PCs should level up, to make it clear that the new adventures take you from one level to the next and are NOT a level range like LFR and the old AD&D mods.</blockquote>