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<blockquote data-quote="RFisher" data-source="post: 4621478" data-attributes="member: 3608">Of course! How could I be defending 3e if I weren’t? ^_^I’m no fan of 3e’s system mastery aspect. That’s one of the reasons I prefer B/X. In my experience, however, it never gets anywhere near as bad as it gets painted. And I have a hard time imagining it ever getting that bad unless there are other problems involved.Maybe you needed to scale wide instead of deep? Did you try having combinations of challenges so that while the higher-power PCs were tied up dealing with their own problem the lower-power PCs would still have other challenges to deal with?I have never seen a PC or set of PCs so powerful that they couldn’t make good use of another warm-body.Yeah. It just jumped on the stage with two big new parts that lots of people objected to. ^_^ Isn’t that the whole point of many people. Not that they are against change but that 4e was too much change. I think a lot of people would be happier with a 4e without healing surges or the powers rules.Even so: A lot of people don’t keep up with the supplements. So, most of these changes did hit them by surprise. A lot of people who do keep up with the supplements remain very picky about what they allow in their game. So, whether it was mostly out there anyway doesn’t mean that they like all that stuff suddenly being in by default.If a wide variety of options is important to you, you are not a good candidate for early adopter. Give 4e time. It’ll get there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RFisher, post: 4621478, member: 3608"] Of course! How could I be defending 3e if I weren’t? ^_^ I’m no fan of 3e’s system mastery aspect. That’s one of the reasons I prefer B/X. In my experience, however, it never gets anywhere near as bad as it gets painted. And I have a hard time imagining it ever getting that bad unless there are other problems involved. Maybe you needed to scale wide instead of deep? Did you try having combinations of challenges so that while the higher-power PCs were tied up dealing with their own problem the lower-power PCs would still have other challenges to deal with? I have never seen a PC or set of PCs so powerful that they couldn’t make good use of another warm-body. Yeah. It just jumped on the stage with two big new parts that lots of people objected to. ^_^ Isn’t that the whole point of many people. Not that they are against change but that 4e was too much change. I think a lot of people would be happier with a 4e without healing surges or the powers rules. Even so: A lot of people don’t keep up with the supplements. So, most of these changes did hit them by surprise. A lot of people who do keep up with the supplements remain very picky about what they allow in their game. So, whether it was mostly out there anyway doesn’t mean that they like all that stuff suddenly being in by default. If a wide variety of options is important to you, you are not a good candidate for early adopter. Give 4e time. It’ll get there. [/QUOTE]

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