NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5125821" data-attributes="member: 2067">To me, it is fairly clear that 4e's designers don't embrace the idea that simulationist tendencies are taboo.While 4e certainly takes big steps away from simulating, no game that has a friggin' encumbrance system is going to ever achieve that escape velocity.D&D in general has a grand tradition of accounting that I've ignored, by and large, but I don't think the game would necessarily be any better in any absolute sense for abandoning it. Maybe closer to what I play, but I'm not going to assume that what I play is what should be played by all people who play D&D. I'm really OK with the game providing a boost for people who want and enjoy that kind of thing. Rather than making the game worse, I think it makes the game more diverse and inclusive, and it doesn't hurt me one bit. I'm certainly not intimidated by a bevy of +1 bonuses (easily limited by being the same type anyway) to a check that, at best, grants you a success in a skill challenge that the rest of your party might still fail for you. I am confident enough in my DM authority that whenever someone says "Nuh-uh!" I can say, "Are you five?"I don't get the hatred of these fiddly bits. I get not really using them -- I don't really use them -- but I don't get how their presence is somehow a philosophical anathema upon to the edition, or the paranoia that it will unleash a catastrophic avalanche of +1's. Some people want donkeyhorse braybeasts. I'm really OK with the game giving them donkeyhorse braybeasts. Just like I'm OK with the game giving Conan dorks a ready-made evil wizard race, even if I'm not a fan of the new Tiefling, and I think Conan is a juvenile power fantasy. I'm OK with sharing this game with people who play it differently than me.</blockquote>

Verification