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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rzach" data-source="post: 4094988" data-attributes="member: 61385">While I can understand why some people dislike the changes in 4e, I find myself looking forward to them.I used to run a campaign in Basic D&D and AD&D second edition. The campaign setting was my own. I had several custom races and I allowed many options into my games.When 3rd edition was released all of the people I gamed with switched over. I admit I was very happy with the rules as a player. But as a DM I found them flawed in some basic ways. Try as I might I just couldn't translate my campaign setting to third edition. For some reason it lacked the original feel of the game. Prestige classes were a pain to make and the monsters I had made in second edition were very hard to balance in third. I found myself setting my campaign setting aside and instead DM the FR setting in it's place. When I first heard about 4e I was a little excited but not expecting to much from it. I expected fighters to get some nifty powers and the other classes to get some rule tweaks. But when I saw the characters from  the D&DXP and read several play testers reviews of the system I began to get really excited. See I can see my old campaign setting being translated to 4e with ease. I have already sat down and began remapping several of the land masses. I haven't been this excited about D&D for over a decade. I don't see the changes they are making as ruining the game. Instead the changes seem to open up new options.With PC's having healing surges I can now run more encounters each day and the monsters can be more challenging. This aspect solves one of the problems I have always had with D&D. Uncertain healing based on dice. The randomness of a die roll can doom a character to certain death. With these new rules I can increase encounter difficulty and not have to worry about PC's dying unfairly. The fighter gets lots of special attacks. Having read the sample characters I haven't seen a single fighter ability yet that is supernatural. Instead what I see is the fighter class finally has some interesting options built in. No longer do I have to worry about the fighter's player getting bored because other individuals have nifty powers to use and he doesn't.I really love the way they have designed the races this time. Now I can reintroduce several of the old races and they will translate easily.My only gripe with the new system is that Magic Missile doesn't auto hit anymore. But I can live with that. The other changes, to me at least, don't seem like bad things but instead seem to remind me of how AD&D 2cnd ed felt when I played and ran it. 4e brings back the feelings of excitement and anticipation that I used to have back in the "old" days when I gamed. That is something that I feel the current (3e) D&D game lacks. Anyways thats my opinion about the 4e.Thanks for your time,Rzach</blockquote>

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