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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andre" data-source="post: 4134096" data-attributes="member: 25930">This is my problem with the marking mechanic - it feels like something that a computer is perfect for tracking, but this isn't a computer game. Jut because something works well in an MMO, doesn't mean it translates to tabletop (or vice versa). I'll wait to see the full rules, hoping for the best, but what I've seen in virtually every playtest report is that marking requires a lot of effort. (Heck, WOTC had an entire article on how to track conditions, and at one point, the guy was putting little skull helmets on miniatures...I have better things to do when running a game, thank you very much.)First off, I have players who can't remember their initiative order, much less which specific creature marked them the round before. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Second, I don't want my players focusing on a fiddly bit like this. I want them roleplaying the fight. One of my biggest gripes with 3E is that it requires players to focus on the rules so much, it's hard to focus on the game. People can only focus on a few things at a time. In 3E, too often their focusing on AoO's, addition (what's my final to hit now?), and so on. In 4E, it looks like marking and other situational modifiers will eat up a lot of focus.My prediction: marking will be house-ruled as often as AoO's are in 3.x</blockquote>

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