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<blockquote data-quote="justanobody" data-source="post: 4523069" data-attributes="member: 70778">Yes a sad throwback from its wargaming roots, that people had thought and wished had been removed from the game, for the concept to rear its ugly head back in the terms of &quot;squares&quot; (1&quot; no less) in 4th edition to devolve the game back to a state of near wargame, then add in the emphasis on minis, and all the combat oriented rules, and merging the newest miniatures line from being its own game, or even just an accessory to being something used to play D&amp;D without needing any of the books to play with in some minis game delve format, has completed the circle in trying to revive for the third time the game Chainmail for 5th edition where D&amp;D will cease to exist.<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/ponder.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hmm:" title="Hmmm&nbsp; &nbsp; :hmm:" data-shortname=":hmm:" />You don't like 4th. I think its ok, but too heavy combat focused in the books and some peoples minds. The facts about the combat orientation exist and have in the past. The sad part is HOW they are returning to try to turn back time when the game was selling better or some other reason.I might as well play 1st edition rather than 4th to get the bits that 4th forgot to include from it as it grabbed bits from each other edition and put them into a blender and hoped something came out worth using.Oddly it has those bits from many editions that give it quirks that are fun, and full of combat. They just need to add more to balance out the books focus on combat. Plain and simple.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="justanobody, post: 4523069, member: 70778"] Yes a sad throwback from its wargaming roots, that people had thought and wished had been removed from the game, for the concept to rear its ugly head back in the terms of "squares" (1" no less) in 4th edition to devolve the game back to a state of near wargame, then add in the emphasis on minis, and all the combat oriented rules, and merging the newest miniatures line from being its own game, or even just an accessory to being something used to play D&D without needing any of the books to play with in some minis game delve format, has completed the circle in trying to revive for the third time the game Chainmail for 5th edition where D&D will cease to exist. :hmm: You don't like 4th. I think its ok, but too heavy combat focused in the books and some peoples minds. The facts about the combat orientation exist and have in the past. The sad part is HOW they are returning to try to turn back time when the game was selling better or some other reason. I might as well play 1st edition rather than 4th to get the bits that 4th forgot to include from it as it grabbed bits from each other edition and put them into a blender and hoped something came out worth using. Oddly it has those bits from many editions that give it quirks that are fun, and full of combat. They just need to add more to balance out the books focus on combat. Plain and simple. [/QUOTE]

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