D&D 4E New ways 4e encourages rollplaying

[maddman75]

Every sentence of background, personality, or concept deducts 1 from your base attack bonus and/or caster level. That'll learn em.

 

[heirodule]

I would think that making combat smoother and speeding up mechanical prep time leaves more time for interaction and plot.

 

[Simia Saturnalia]

I would think that making combat smoother and speeding up mechanical prep time leaves more time for interaction and plot.

This is my going-forward hope for 4e. All the mechanical fun of 3.x, but streamlined so I can plot it up behind the scenes.


Man, I really thought this OP was a troll when I first saw it, thanks to the whole role/roll thing. Probably best I held off on my "Don't feed the troll" image until getting home...

 

[Rel]

Every sentence of background, personality, or concept deducts 1 from your base attack bonus and/or caster level. That'll learn em.

Actually I implemented a rule at the outset of my Eberron campaign that anybody that gave me at least three sentences about their character got 100 Bonus XP. Anybody that wrote more than half a page got a 100 XP penalty.

 

[Theovis]

Actually I implemented a rule at the outset of my Eberron campaign that anybody that gave me at least three sentences about their character got 100 Bonus XP. Anybody that wrote more than half a page got a 100 XP penalty.

That is awesome. It drives me crazy when a player submits pages and pages of stuff, and then gets miffed when the gamemaster is impatient that the player is constantly dragging in all that minutia. Like the GM actually read all that!

 

[howandwhy99]

maneuvers and talent trees.

 

[Varianor Abroad]

I think it could if Wizards markets heavily to draw in more folks than currently play. That will bring in more roleplayers among the pack.