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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8862969" data-attributes="member: 42582">A premise of 4e is that epic tier PCs become immortal in some fashion - demigods, emergent primordials, heralds of their gods, etc.The core resolution framework - combat encounters and skill challenges - remains the same at all tiers. The fiction is expected to change, as per the descriptions of the tiers that [USER=5142]@Aldarc[/USER] referred to. The mechanical minutiae become more complicated - although the rulebooks don't really discuss it, a key conceit of 4e as demonstrated by the way both PCs and creatures are built is that as the game progresses, the mechanics become more intricate and in that way the game therefore becomes more testing of the players (as well as being more demanding on the GM).I agree that in this sort of thread, when we talk about '&quot;dungeon crawling&quot; or &quot;exploration&quot; it is not really the fiction that is under scrutiny, but the process of play. (That's not to say that the fiction and the process of play are fully independent of one another.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8862969, member: 42582"] A premise of 4e is that epic tier PCs become immortal in some fashion - demigods, emergent primordials, heralds of their gods, etc. The core resolution framework - combat encounters and skill challenges - remains the same at all tiers. The fiction is expected to change, as per the descriptions of the tiers that [USER=5142]@Aldarc[/USER] referred to. The mechanical minutiae become more complicated - although the rulebooks don't really discuss it, a key conceit of 4e as demonstrated by the way both PCs and creatures are built is that as the game progresses, the mechanics become more intricate and in that way the game therefore becomes more testing of the players (as well as being more demanding on the GM). I agree that in this sort of thread, when we talk about '"dungeon crawling" or "exploration" it is not really the fiction that is under scrutiny, but the process of play. (That's not to say that the fiction and the process of play are fully independent of one another.) [/QUOTE]

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