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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GuJiaXian" data-source="post: 4974772" data-attributes="member: 54614">This is one of the biggest plusses for 4e for me. Prep time is a luxury (kids, work, life, etc.), so the ability to boot up the Compendium and toss something easy together is really nice.I suppose that I have to major gripes/issues with 4e:1) It's heavily, heavily combat-centric. Everything is about combat. Every player ability is about combat. The mechanics are all about combat. Granted, roleplaying is largely verbal and "winged," but I want a mechanical system that at least acknowledges it.2) There's no sense of wonder during character growth. Unlike earlier editions, you start at 1st level as an established hero (power-wise, at least). When you hit 30th level, you're really powerful...but only really powerful. In 3.x, 1st-level characters are squishy and genuinely need to be afraid of the scary world out there. 20th-level characters, however, are nearly godlike in their power (very unlike their 30th-level 4e counterparts).The first issue can be addressed somewhat simply through DM and player involvement. The second cannot be fixed without mechanical changes to the system, it seems.</blockquote>