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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5573735" data-attributes="member: 42582">P1NBACK, I don't think you're edition warring but I do disagree with some of your characterisation of 4e.4e requires the same amount of fiction. No fighter power, for example, can be used without specifying the weapon used to execute the power. So your Footwork Lure example isn't entirely accurate.Of course, in practice in AD&D I think that if everyone knows the fighter uses a two-handed sword the weapon description might not be reiterated every time. Likewise in 4e.Also, the description of the Fireball spell in Moldvay Basic is almost identical to 4e - it simply gives the spell name, and states that creatures in a certain radius take a certain amount of damage from a missile of fire that explodes into a sphere of fire. 4e reformats that description. If it was obvious to everyone playing Moldvay Basic what, in the fiction, casting fireball involved - and that it might set fire to books even though nowhere is that hinted at except in the description of the spell as a Fireball - then I don't see why 4e should be expected to produce a different result.</blockquote>