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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Zardoz" data-source="post: 4706727" data-attributes="member: 704"><p>I do think that one advantage that 4th Edition will have is that as far as providing new options, each class can be served just as well as the Wizard and Cleric were in previous editions.</p><p></p><p>Even if your not a big fan of the way powers and handled in 4th edition, one of the common criticisms of the spatbooks was that every book that came out with cleric spells made every cleric stronger, and every book that had wizard spells potentially made wizards stronger (if they could add them to their book, and of course subject to DM approval). This was great if you played either of those classes, but every other class did not have a means to evolve much after release. It improved a bit with Feats, but not by much, since every class got feats, but only the spell casters had spells. Sooner or later the spell casters end up with a massive selection of options compared to the other classes.</p><p></p><p>But now every class is like a 2nd edition Wizard. The addition of new powers does not automatically allow your current character to use them interchangably with your current power set. You can retrain, but you cannot have access to all at once. Each class can be updated easily, so it will be easy to keep PHB1 classes on par with what comes out in PHB 3 or PHB 5 or whatever.</p><p></p><p>I suspect that the overall lifespan of 4th edition may be getting underestimated.</p><p></p><p>END COMMUNICATION</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lord Zardoz, post: 4706727, member: 704"] I do think that one advantage that 4th Edition will have is that as far as providing new options, each class can be served just as well as the Wizard and Cleric were in previous editions. Even if your not a big fan of the way powers and handled in 4th edition, one of the common criticisms of the spatbooks was that every book that came out with cleric spells made every cleric stronger, and every book that had wizard spells potentially made wizards stronger (if they could add them to their book, and of course subject to DM approval). This was great if you played either of those classes, but every other class did not have a means to evolve much after release. It improved a bit with Feats, but not by much, since every class got feats, but only the spell casters had spells. Sooner or later the spell casters end up with a massive selection of options compared to the other classes. But now every class is like a 2nd edition Wizard. The addition of new powers does not automatically allow your current character to use them interchangably with your current power set. You can retrain, but you cannot have access to all at once. Each class can be updated easily, so it will be easy to keep PHB1 classes on par with what comes out in PHB 3 or PHB 5 or whatever. I suspect that the overall lifespan of 4th edition may be getting underestimated. END COMMUNICATION [/QUOTE]
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