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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mike From Madison" data-source="post: 5880708" data-attributes="member: 6688177">Okay, here goes:Old: EASE OF CHARACTER CREATIONRole some dice, pick a class, buy some gear, BOOM! Done in 20 minutes. If you need a piece of software to create a PC something is very VERY wrong.New: PULP-HEROIC VIBEI consider it my life's work to personally smack anyone who plays D&D and openly admits that the only fantasy they've ever read is Tolkien and/or Dragonlance. D&D does not and has never done that sort of 'epic fantasy' well, and 2nd and 3rd editions attempts to shove that particular square peg into the round hole just made a mess of things. What D&D was originally designed to represent was 'pulp fantasy': Howard, Lieber, etc. and to be brutally honest no edition represents that sort of gung-ho action better than 4th.Borrowed: REPUTATION RANKSA fully realized campaign world is not an amusement park for players to rampage through. nor do their actions take place in a vacuum. Their actions, for good or ill, will have consequences. I would love to see rules mooched from another system that will influence NPC's reactions to the PCs based on previous actions: There's no point in being a 27th level bad-arse with 900 hit points if you'll get run out of every village because the word has gotten out about what you did to that little old lady in Whatevershire....and to that orphanage...and to that cow...Blew: PLAYER CHARACTER ENTITLEMENTAs a DM there's few things that annoy me more than sitting down to my game, adventure already written up and ready to go, only to have one of my players say "My mage is getting boring, I wanna play a Pastamancer!" and she starts waving 'The Ultimate Pastamancer book' in my face. I do not have the time, the inclination, or the patience to pore over yet another 120+ page rulebook, crammed with another 700 powers, feats, etc. for players to cherry pick and abuse. And being a grownup with rent, utilities, insurance, student loan payments and saving for retirement, it often comes down to choosing to buy the monthly $40 installment of the rules or food for that long stretch until payday...guess which one gets skipped over (hint: I can't buy rulebooks at the grocery store)</blockquote>

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