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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8117013" data-attributes="member: 6790260">This may literally be the most fair response to a deeply polarized topic I've ever seen. Genuine kudos, that's an impressive achievement.Personally, I voted 4e. I don't have enough experience with editions prior to 3e to evaluate them properly, and have been pretty thoroughly disappointed with the versions found anywhere else. (Also, not really sure why Essentials was called out as distinct from 4e when it was literally the same game, just a supplement, while 3e and 3.5e were lumped together when changes to the Ranger's design were among the key differences between them, but...well, I didn't make the poll, did I?) Slightly surprised to see the 4e version doing so well, but hey, I'm not complaining. (Especially if you combine the 4e and Essentials voters--who, surprisingly, happen to be completely distinct--it's a clear 2nd place, and only six votes shy of tying for first.)Now, anecdote time! One of the coolest moments in any TTRPG I've played featured a 4e Ranger. We were fighting evil megacorporate cyber-assassins/commandos inside the stomach of a technorganic aquatic kaiju (well before Pacific Rim came out, mind!), and the party Ranger had a literal pistol (refluffed longbow as akimbo pistols) duel to the death with the assassins' leader. It was a totally one-on-one dance of death with both of them shifting, moving, pulling surprise attacks, knocking the other away. If we hadn't had the DM reminding us of the initiative order, I frankly think we would've just sat back and watched the two of them go at it because it was awesome.And, of course, the ranger came out on top. Commander bit the dust and the other combatants didn't take much longer. One of the coolest scenes I've ever seen in gaming and it came about because of, not despite, the mechanics involved.</blockquote>

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