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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6589563" data-attributes="member: 82106">Yet 4e fulfills the PROMISE of 2e almost completely. It delivers the story-driven play that 2e did nothing to deliver except to tell the DM to 'make it happen'. Admittedly though, 4e is considerably different in TONE in some sense. Though 2e definitely has more robust and 'heroic' characters than earlier editions, mechanically, 4e's PCs are vastly more capable and extraordinary, which does change the tone, eliminating the last of the elements of bathos that exist in the 'meat grinder' of low level D&D play. Ironically I thought the idea of the 'PoL' was much more in keeping with a 2e tone than a 4e tone.  Its actual incarnation in Nentir Vale owes a bit more to 4e's tone, but its still not quite hitting the mark. Maybe MV:TtNV gets you there, I have never managed to get around to buying a copy.</blockquote>