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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gothmog" data-source="post: 4897510" data-attributes="member: 317">No contest.  After having played it for over a year, both as a DM and player, 4E is by far my favorite edition of D&D, and holds together the best during play for my groups.As a DM, I love 4e for:* Ease of preparation (and the DDI is a thing of beauty)* Simplicity of NPC and monster stat blocks, but still with tons of interesting options during a fight* Skill challenges (yes, I use them, and they work well especially if the DM uses some judgement)* Focus on actually playing and running the game, rather than prepping for it* MUCH harder for a player to munchkin powergame.  It means my job as a DM is a ton easier not having to worry about appropriate encounters and challenges trashing some PCs while other PCs don't break a sweat* The system is so robust and scales well through all levels of play* XP budgeting system for encounter design* New cosmology- it strongly mirrors the cosmology of my homebrew world, and I find the new cosmology far more evocative than the old oneAs a player, I love 4e for:* Easier organic character development (meaning I don't need to pre-select feats, skills, classes, etc out to level X to be able to qualify for something later), and retraining* Focus on play mastery rather than system mastery* Focus on working as a team, rather than lone-wolf tactics* MUCH harder to munchkin powergame, and fewer one-trick pony PCs* I can play ANY class and know I won't be a gimp or useless at any point during the character's progression* The new multiclassing rules * Powers are just a stupid amount of fun in play* Caster class power is reigned in, but a smart caster with some prep time for rituals and careful power use can do some really incredible stuff* Much less reliance on magic items for character progression and powerI've still got a soft spot for AD&D 1e/2e- 1e had such a great feel to it during play (which we have recaptured with 4e with a few minor tweaks), and 2e was where I spent most of my gaming years, and the settings were a lot of fun.  We still play 1e or 2e a couple times a year as one-off games, and they are fun, but 4e has revolutionized and improved D&D so much, I don't think I could go back.  Alas, I never really got to play much OD&D, but what I did play was fun.  I won't mention the "edition that shall not be named" as my gaming group calls it, since this isn't an edition wars thread and nobody wants it to go there.  A buddy of mine is going to run a Pathfinder game and wants me to play in it.  I'm cautiously optomistic about it, but more for his DMing skills than any inherent strength of the system.  We shall see.</blockquote>

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