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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5799554" data-attributes="member: 42582">Still can't XP you, but I agree with this.Of course, you can drift 3E in various ways, and because in some ways its mechanics are less transparent thatn 4e's, that drifting may be less obvious. 4e is highly driftable as well, I think - S'mon and I seem to play fairly different 4e games, for example - but I think the drifting is inevitably going to be more obvious, because of the mechanical transparency.A simple example - I'm sure there are any number of 3E/PF GMs who handwave the passage of ingame time that is not measured in combat rounds, and therefore the duration of all those 10 min/level (and, at low levels, 1 hour/level) spells. And treat this as just &quot;playing the game&quot;, whereas it is in fact a suspension of the default action resolution rules. But a GM who does funky stuff with resting in 4e is immediately told by 4e critics &quot;Look, the only way you can make it work is to houserule it!&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 5799554, member: 42582"] [I]Still[/I] can't XP you, but I agree with this. Of course, you can [I]drift[/I] 3E in various ways, and because in some ways its mechanics are less transparent thatn 4e's, that drifting may be less obvious. 4e is highly driftable as well, I think - S'mon and I seem to play fairly different 4e games, for example - but I think the drifting is inevitably going to be more obvious, because of the mechanical transparency. A simple example - I'm sure there are any number of 3E/PF GMs who handwave the passage of ingame time that is not measured in combat rounds, and therefore the duration of all those 10 min/level (and, at low levels, 1 hour/level) spells. And treat this as just "playing the game", whereas it is in fact a suspension of the default action resolution rules. But a GM who does funky stuff with resting in 4e is immediately told by 4e critics "Look, the only way you can make it work is to houserule it!". [/QUOTE]

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