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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Keldryn" data-source="post: 5768659" data-attributes="member: 11999">I had more or less given up on 4E after running about half a dozen sessions, but threads like this are helping me come around to giving it another chance.I think that I actually very much like 4E.  It's the way that the published adventures are written that I don't like.  Even the better ones (The Slaying Stone, Reavers of Harkenwold) make it very easy for the game to play out as a series of mostly-unavoidable combat encounters with short breaks for role-playing and exploration.  Running an AD&D 1e session through the start of N1 Against the Cult of the Reptile God made me realize this; had we been playing with 4E rules, the session would have played out very much the same, except the one significant combat encounter would have been a lot more fun and two players would have had a lot more to do during the battle.I love how 4E makes it that it's not a huge stretch to find ways for every player to be involved in the game at virtually all times.  In our 4E games, there was never a situation where any players felt that they couldn't contribute something worthwhile.I love that the 4E DM's Screen doesn't give me a headache just looking at it, unlike the AD&D 1e and 3.x/PF screens.  I look at those and my eyes just glaze over.I love that we spent very little time looking up a rule when playing 4E; the base rules are mostly easy enough to remember, and everything else is right there in a power or monster description.I love how 4E makes it fairy easy to reliably judge how difficult a combat encounter will be, and how there are clear guidelines for scaling the encounter up or down.I love how players in 4E are much less likely to end up sitting out half the night because of a couple of unlucky die rolls.I'm still frustrated by many of the overly fiddly bits (until the start/end of next turn condition/effect/trivial bonus tracking and the ubiquity of temporary hit points in particular), but think that I might have given up on it before the new rules became second nature to me.  There is a lot to love in 4E.</blockquote>

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