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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 8304173" data-attributes="member: 6696971">With respect to "puffin forest" (whoever that is), if that analysis is what I think it is (extrapolating from what you've written), then that is someone who is offering the shallow critique of either (a) someone who didn't play the game, (b) someone who didn't understand the game, or (c) both.Powers were one layer of the multi-layered ring of each individual class's actual manifestation in the play of the game.  A Fighter's <damage + Slide 3> Power doesn't do anything near the same type of work as a Wizard's <damage + Slide 3> Power (neither thematically nor consequentially as it pertains to (a) its deployment and (b) its mechanical interactions with the rest of the game's mechanical architecture).4e was filled with dozens of these sorts of complaints because a cross-section of people were being introduced to these concepts for the first time (unified mechanics differentiated by thematics and keywords, reskinning, keyword tech, an alternative to classic resource scheduling, closed-scene based resolution - Skill Challenges + Fail Forward/Change the Situation/Success w/ Complications as techniques, on and on and on) and they had deeply internalized models for all manner of things TTRPG.Those same people would invariably go on to hate Cortex+ games, Mouse Guard, and dozens of other TTRPGs (which they would likely bin in the "dissociative mechanics", not RPGs, ludonarrative dissonance, Fail Forward is ezmode, player empowerment and table facing mechanics = entitlement, any game underwritten by genre logic rather than process sim is nonsense - bin).</blockquote>

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