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<blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 5183863" data-attributes="member: 5834"><p><strong>re</strong></p><p></p><p>Mike Mearls,</p><p></p><p>Congratulations on the new job. I'd love to love D&D again as well. Left the game at the 4E launch and haven't returned.</p><p></p><p>A big step in the right direction for me loving D&D again would be to get wizards, heck, casters period back to how they have been for countless editions of D&D . What 4E did to casters was like a dagger driven into my D&D loving heart. I had spent years mastering caster play to the point that my group acknowledged me as one of the best if not the best caster player in our group. Not because I crushed what I faced, but because I was great at spell strategy. </p><p></p><p>I enjoy the concept behind boosting melees and giving them interesting powers and abilities. But there has to be a way to do that while keeping casters the imaginative, varied, and powerful beings they were before 4E. There's gotta be a way to make casters able to do combat buffs during the actual battle, do things other than damage that don't break quickly like <em>dominate person</em> or <em>confusion</em>, and use transportation powers and other non-damaging but effective powers in combat on a scale other than personal like the <em>teleport</em> assault or evacuation in 3D or <em>Mass Fly</em> for aerial combats. Bring back some of the need for smart casters that know how to counter enemy caster spell strategy. Heck, bring back spell strategy period. Make it so a caster has to work to think out the best strategy to counter an enemy. Make it so everything isn't temporary and limited to once a day or encounter.</p><p></p><p>Good luck making D&D better. I hope one of you designers will one day bring me back into the fold. As much as I like <em>Pathfinder</em>, I miss my books with the D&D logo on them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celtavian, post: 5183863, member: 5834"] [b]re[/b] Mike Mearls, Congratulations on the new job. I'd love to love D&D again as well. Left the game at the 4E launch and haven't returned. A big step in the right direction for me loving D&D again would be to get wizards, heck, casters period back to how they have been for countless editions of D&D . What 4E did to casters was like a dagger driven into my D&D loving heart. I had spent years mastering caster play to the point that my group acknowledged me as one of the best if not the best caster player in our group. Not because I crushed what I faced, but because I was great at spell strategy. I enjoy the concept behind boosting melees and giving them interesting powers and abilities. But there has to be a way to do that while keeping casters the imaginative, varied, and powerful beings they were before 4E. There's gotta be a way to make casters able to do combat buffs during the actual battle, do things other than damage that don't break quickly like [i]dominate person[/i] or [i]confusion[/i], and use transportation powers and other non-damaging but effective powers in combat on a scale other than personal like the [i]teleport[/i] assault or evacuation in 3D or [i]Mass Fly[/i] for aerial combats. Bring back some of the need for smart casters that know how to counter enemy caster spell strategy. Heck, bring back spell strategy period. Make it so a caster has to work to think out the best strategy to counter an enemy. Make it so everything isn't temporary and limited to once a day or encounter. Good luck making D&D better. I hope one of you designers will one day bring me back into the fold. As much as I like [i]Pathfinder[/i], I miss my books with the D&D logo on them. [/QUOTE]
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