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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vartan" data-source="post: 5059446" data-attributes="member: 26155">I disagree: as a DM, my approach to campaign design and my group's approach to play is the same under 4E rules as it was under 2E. The designers--as always--present a playstyle "template" in the rulebooks, but that hasn't stopped us from playing a different sort of game. While running 4E I've had to adjust my DM-ing style with regards to combat: the system assumes that PCs will use their combat resources over the course of multiple battles between extended rest, and I tend to run less combat-intensive D&D campaigns, so I'm still learning how to design challenging battles in 4E.That being said, every system I've ever run has required me to make similar adjustments, so I don't feel like 4E's ruleset has made my job harder than did BECMI, 2E or 3E. The 4E rules also offer a lot of conveniences that were absent from those editions and, on the balance, I feel like it gives us more of the tools we need to run our style of D&D campaign than did previous editions.I think that your perception of "one-wayism" in 4E design is just as present in the design of any edition of D&D (or any other RPG, for that matter) and that any gaming group can use those rules in the service of any campaign style they can imagine.</blockquote>