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<blockquote data-quote="Eric V" data-source="post: 6398735" data-attributes="member: 6779717">3.x in higher levels was also a huge grind unless people were launching save-or-die spells at each other...then it became a matter of dice, that's it.4e is the most mathematically and tactically sound game out there, it really is.&nbsp; I DM'd a group through H1-H2, then Madness at Gardmore Abbey.&nbsp; Then homebrew, then P2, then started P3...and it just became an accounting nightmare.&nbsp; I often wonder if we had played Essentials-only if this would have happened, but...as it is, everyone inflicted some sort of status effect per hit, with varying durations, etc.&nbsp; Keeping track of all that became such a chore; at Heroic level it was fine, even early Paragon...by late Paragon, there were so many modifiers to everything, so many immediate actions, so many effects...it was hard to get any momentum going.If combat could somehow have been streamlined, I would have stuck with it; I love miniatures games (especially Heroscape and Heroclix) and 4e felt like the latter: more detailed, more intricate, more strategy...but ultimately less fun. :/</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eric V, post: 6398735, member: 6779717"] 3.x in higher levels was also a huge grind unless people were launching save-or-die spells at each other...then it became a matter of dice, that's it. 4e is the most mathematically and tactically sound game out there, it really is. I DM'd a group through H1-H2, then Madness at Gardmore Abbey. Then homebrew, then P2, then started P3...and it just became an accounting [I]nightmare[/I]. I often wonder if we had played Essentials-only if this would have happened, but...as it is, [I]everyone[/I] inflicted some sort of status effect per hit, with varying durations, etc. Keeping track of all that became such a chore; at Heroic level it was fine, even early Paragon...by late Paragon, there were so many modifiers to everything, so many immediate actions, so many effects...it was hard to get any momentum going. If combat could somehow have been streamlined, I would have stuck with it; I love miniatures games (especially Heroscape and Heroclix) and 4e felt like the latter: more detailed, more intricate, more strategy...but ultimately less fun. :/ [/QUOTE]

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