D&D 4E Reported post: "Sorry, that's only in 4E..."(3810296)

[MerricB]

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So I am reading up on the Death Knight ecology and realized,"Wow...they really do want to change the game so much that no one from this and past generations will ever relate to the new gamers of next generation."

Talk about splitting your fan base.

This new death knight (amongst a million other rules, mechanics, and flavor in 4E) is so different than its original, it is only a death knight in name and not tradition...

Is this what you 4E lovers really want? I can imagine someone trying an older edition game with some true, real lovers of the game and veterans in, say, a 3.5E game and going "Hey that does---" or "That did---" and someone replying,"Sorry, totally different. That's only in 4E pal. Get with the program

Now turn it the other way around,"Ok, I'm here to try 4E." and everything you once knew in 1E through 3E is being retorted by the World of Warcraft crowd playing 4E (if they manage to get into D&D and stay in it long enough, despite WotC's hopes for 9 million+ customers with D&D) telling you,"No, dude, what the hell are you talking about? You're way off."

Then you tell them,"Well it was like this in past editions."

"Well this ISN'T X Edition. I heard the rules were crap and horrible."

Seriously...9-eyed beholders, non-lawful good paladins, no energy draining undead, 25th-level spells, death knights don't have both melee power and disposable powerful Abyssal magic (which, I'm sorry, are way cooler than sword-phylactery lich wanna-bes), the entire cosmology getting warped (yet, again) and ruining the consistency in EVERYONE'S games.

You guys think this is all a GOOD thing? Seriously?

I'd love to be on whatever you guys are on that has you so hyped for 4E.

in Thread "Sorry, that's only in 4E..."

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Can we please keep this troll away from the 4e boards?


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[Piratecat]

I had ordered Razz out of the 4e forum. He gets a suspension.

 

[Darkness]

non-lawful good paladins

...have existed since 2e, if not before. Evil ones, that is.
Also, 3e had, at one time or another, non-LG paladins for most alignments (possibly except for N, LN, and CN).

death knights don't have both melee power and disposable powerful Abyssal magic

Lots of 3e critters are quite different from their 2e counterparts. *shrug* Besides, although that's quite possibly less important than the previous point, it's a different default setting. A Dark Sun elf wasn't the same as a Greyhawk elf, either. (In 2e, anyway; dunno about 3e.)

the entire cosmology getting warped (yet, again)

Again, different default setting.