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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6585350" data-attributes="member: 6775031">It's possible. It's also possible that a preference for 3.x over 4E might show a predilection for process-Simulation. If you actually ask those people why they feel that way, you're unlikely to get many responses indicating that they are in favor of class imbalance, longer prep time, or 'rocket-tag' combat. You're more likely to get an answer regarding how classes in 3.x felt more distinct, and how minions or martial healing didn't 'make sense' to them.Which are all perfectly reasonable answers. It's entirely possible to value class balance, but think that forcing everyone into an AEDU structure is too high of a price to pay for it; those players might have been happier post-Essentials, from what I understand. Minions exist to fulfill a narrative role of letting the PCs seem awesome, at the expense of consistency in the process of simulating combat; if you really care about the process, then there's not much you can do about this, aside from hoping the DM just doesn't use minions ever. Martial healing... well, I'll chalk that one up to a combination of misunderstanding (about what HP are supposed to represent in 4E) and stubborn refusal to change preconceptions about what HP are supposed to represent. This is the group of players who might be rationalizing that they care about Simulation, when they actually just don't like the change in flavor. Of course, you also get players who honestly admit that they don't like the change in flavor, and that is also a fair critique.</blockquote>

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