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<blockquote data-quote="braro" data-source="post: 5897557" data-attributes="member: 63089"><p>I kind of wonder if the early 4e books were so "Lore-Light" because of the bad reaction to the idea of stipulating lore, and the amount of new mechanics that had to be covered?</p><p></p><p>I know when I was reading them, I was basically just reading them to build characters, since I was "bringing with me" a ton of stuff from 3e. </p><p></p><p>Edit: Also, the mechanics informed a lot for me, which is how I ended up with the human ranger raised by the eladrin, who was the first human to be awarded the position of Stormwarden in all of history, who found ancient hide armor in the ruins of the ancient Tiefling empire as one of his capstone magical items. He was accompanied by an eladrin fighter who was his adoptive father's son, and the fighter's abilities were all informed by the mechanics (Using a spear and a longsword interchangably as the situation came about, having a bit of magic and ritual casting, and so on) as well as a half-elf rogue who had somehow been tricked in to forming a pact with a rival fey-lord (the half-elf racial powers, and the multiclass feats) and was traveling with them to find a way to be free.</p><p></p><p>And then they were all killed by Irontooth. Le Sigh.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="braro, post: 5897557, member: 63089"] I kind of wonder if the early 4e books were so "Lore-Light" because of the bad reaction to the idea of stipulating lore, and the amount of new mechanics that had to be covered? I know when I was reading them, I was basically just reading them to build characters, since I was "bringing with me" a ton of stuff from 3e. Edit: Also, the mechanics informed a lot for me, which is how I ended up with the human ranger raised by the eladrin, who was the first human to be awarded the position of Stormwarden in all of history, who found ancient hide armor in the ruins of the ancient Tiefling empire as one of his capstone magical items. He was accompanied by an eladrin fighter who was his adoptive father's son, and the fighter's abilities were all informed by the mechanics (Using a spear and a longsword interchangably as the situation came about, having a bit of magic and ritual casting, and so on) as well as a half-elf rogue who had somehow been tricked in to forming a pact with a rival fey-lord (the half-elf racial powers, and the multiclass feats) and was traveling with them to find a way to be free. And then they were all killed by Irontooth. Le Sigh. [/QUOTE]
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