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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5261438" data-attributes="member: 82106">And here is the nut of the difference, both between us and between 3.x and 4e. The 4e rules aren't primarily about instilling anything, they are about resolving situations in the game. Players are freed up to imagine how it works, how it looks, and how it fits into the story to a degree that just didn't really exist in 3.x where much of that was pre-ordained by the designers. I'm fine with imagining all the different cool ways that my warlock works. His pact is a great RP hook. There doesn't need to be a bunch of rules explaining that if I change my alignment someone eats my face or whatever. Really if I have a complaint about 4e, and a complaint that people have often voiced, it is that it didn't go far enough. The rules should really let me say shoot my spells from a bow and just call it an implement or let me call my weapon a mace or a flail or a hammer or whatever and not care. In other words a lot of the philosophy of 4e is that less is more. Being an old time D&D I'm used to doing with a LOT less. Its like having the best of OD&D (practically total freedom to make up anything and very few numbers) with the best of 3.x (lots of mechanics to help me model what I want to do). And really ultimately combat is not everything. Even if 4e characters fight more similarly in some ways than 3.x characters did there should be a ton of other ways they are different.</blockquote>

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