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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6654812" data-attributes="member: 82106">I think you could definitely play 4e in a 'cartoony' mode if you wanted. I had a group that was kind of 'doofy'. They had one particular player who was a great player and fun guy, and he kind of was the ringleader. He built a halfling rogue, and then took powers like Bowl Over and used them to construct a physical comedy out of his character. He'd pick up an ogre and throw it across the room, or whatever sorts of crazy interpretations of what his powers did. It was fine, that was a fun game, quite fun. 'Moose' the halfing rogue went on to do various amusing and heroic things. The rest of us played it pretty straight too, the game didn't feel ridiculous, but it was fun seeing how you could take the system in different directions a little.So, yes, you can be gonzo silly. Probably in various ways. I'm pretty sure you can be gonzo silly in 5e too, its not a hard thing to do in most games really. I'm pretty sure you could run a very heavy grimdark sort of 4e or 5e game too. 4th Core was another example of a different way to spin the 4e system, something that would also work well in pretty much any system. Kind of just harkening back to the old meat grinder games of OD&amp;D.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 6654812, member: 82106"] I think you could definitely play 4e in a 'cartoony' mode if you wanted. I had a group that was kind of 'doofy'. They had one particular player who was a great player and fun guy, and he kind of was the ringleader. He built a halfling rogue, and then took powers like Bowl Over and used them to construct a physical comedy out of his character. He'd pick up an ogre and throw it across the room, or whatever sorts of crazy interpretations of what his powers did. It was fine, that was a fun game, quite fun. 'Moose' the halfing rogue went on to do various amusing and heroic things. The rest of us played it pretty straight too, the game didn't feel ridiculous, but it was fun seeing how you could take the system in different directions a little. So, yes, you can be gonzo silly. Probably in various ways. I'm pretty sure you can be gonzo silly in 5e too, its not a hard thing to do in most games really. I'm pretty sure you could run a very heavy grimdark sort of 4e or 5e game too. 4th Core was another example of a different way to spin the 4e system, something that would also work well in pretty much any system. Kind of just harkening back to the old meat grinder games of OD&D. [/QUOTE]

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