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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8304723" data-attributes="member: 58172">D&D 4e was designed for players and DMs to "refluff" its flavor. Powers (spells and features) had a "flavor text" that characterized the power in prose, before the section that described the mechanical formulas. Mechanical formulas 100% determine 4e adjudication. Narrative adjudication doesnt exist in 4e. Even so, 4e is pretty good at expressing flavor, because it is easy for any one to fine a power with reasonably appropriate mechanics, and then radically reflavor it according to personal taste. So 4e makes it possible to play character concepts that are less likely in other editions.I learned D&D from a group who played 1e and 2e. I am familiar with theater of the mind, narrative immersion, and narrative adjudication, and strongly prefer it. Then I played 4e, and I love 4e, and greatly appreciate its striving for class balance. Then I played 3e, tho I knew about it earlier. I missed the 4e at-wills. Now I play 5e, and it kinda does allow me to do (most of) the things that I like from the earlier editions.I like narrative adjudication, and focus on the story, is what makes the story come life.</blockquote>