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Message: <blockquote data-quote="slwoyach" data-source="post: 5019994" data-attributes="member: 1022">I completely disagree with the OP.  I hate 4e, I mean I really hate it, but it was specifically designed to be easily customizable.  That is one of the few things I do like about it.What was lost from 2e to 3e was creativity, as a couple of other people have already pointed out.  Books were 75% fluff in those days, and that fluff was great.  They created wonderful settings and then gave you rules to play in them.  WotC went the opposite direction, they gave you a book with 75% crunch and then tried to create worlds around the rules, which leads to bland and sometimes dreadful settings.  Nothing they've done has felt like a real world, it always feels more like a game than an adventure.Luckily 3rd party companies sprang up to bring us great worlds like Midnight, the Mythic Vistas series, and a wonderful adaptation of Conan.  Unfortunately that last bastion of creativity seems to be fading away as well.</blockquote>