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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5469365" data-attributes="member: 19675">Actually, only the last 2 are mine.  The others you listed- plus ditching the traditional D&D Cosmology (which I mentioned in another post in this thread)- were all lifted from the commentaries of early 4Ed adopters in Edition Wars threads.  While I didn't agree with their assessment of the superiority of 4Ed, they did start my brain down this path of what the game would be like without the legacy issue. Many if not most FRPGs do without alignment whatsoever, and do just fine.  Personally, I like alignment in D&D (for many reasons), but prefer the old 9 valence system as opposed to the 5 point system 4Ed uses.  It seems an ill-conceived, asymmetrical compromise between D&D legacy issues and games that ditch alignment.  Personally, whether it had the D&D badge or not, I think that a G-U-E continuum (RPing your L & C) or no alignment at all (pure RP) would have been 4Ed's alignment system would have been better than what it has now.Again, a class-based system isn't necessary to having a quality FRPG experience.  GURPS, HERO and other games do without. True20 does just fine with minimal numbers of very flexible & customizable classes.Thanks- I thought it would make it easier for the game to run homebrewed Barsoom games, or recreating the panoply of Planetouched from 3.X...and expanding upon them!I think- though I could be wrong- that complaints about fighters casting spells is not about casting spells, but how 4Ed re-characterizes martial techniques as powers.  After all, "gish" builds are insanely popular, near as I can tell.Yes x 1000!  I don't think they got them all right in terms of cost and other mechanics, but I think the idea of ritual magic is something the game has always needed.  Whichever way D&D goes in the future, ritual magic in some way, shape or form should be a keeper.</blockquote>

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