Wired Reviews 4e

[SpiderMonkey]

And, worst of all...

No wandering Harlot table.

Well...there's always the errata, right?

 

[Kichwas]

2 fanboyz for the price of... whatever. Guess I hit a nerve.

Open your 1E book and look up the name of the guy with spells per day and a familiar.

Gnome? Not in my PHB. It's a monster in the MM, sure, but it's not in the PHB as a PC race.

Neither of you managed to challenge any of the point I was making... you just picked little pieces you thought you could use to make me look bad through misdirection and sidetracking away from the actual post I was making.

 

[BryonD]

Neither of you managed to challenge any of the point I was making... you just picked little pieces you thought you could use to make me look bad through misdirection and sidetracking away from the actual post I was making.

Welcome to the club.... This is SOP.

 

[Wormwood]

edit: oh never mind

 

[evildm]

2 fanboyz for the price of... whatever. Guess I hit a nerve.

Open your 1E book and look up the name of the guy with spells per day and a familiar.

Gnome? Not in my PHB. It's a monster in the MM, sure, but it's not in the PHB as a PC race.

Neither of you managed to challenge any of the point I was making... you just picked little pieces you thought you could use to make me look bad through misdirection and sidetracking away from the actual post I was making.

Just a clarification, the Gnome is also in the MM as a player race, check the end of the book (if you have it). The only thing it's missing are racial feats which aren't very important anyway.

 

[Mal Malenkirk]

Which edition of first edition did you play?

The one that was straightforward and fun.

4e is an excellent game with the best mix of rules streamlining VS tactical breadth I have played yet in D&D.

And I couldn't care less about ranger animal companions.

 

[fiddlerjones]

4E, as I see it, was designed to make the game fun again without tomes of rules getting in the way. I have my issues with it, including the lack of druids, assassins, charm person, summon spells, etc. But when you say that 4E lacks those qualities, you're really saying that it doesn't have them YET. You can always a) houserule them in or b) wait for supplements that will inevitably introduce them.

 

[eyebeams]

Like much of Underwire, it's social marketing content. It shouldn't be taken particularly seriously as journalism. The purpose of the article is to mention D&D in a positive light on a PageRank 9 website in a format that will generate social media connections.

 

[xechnao]

Like much of Underwire, it's social marketing content. It shouldn't be taken particularly seriously as journalism. The purpose of the article is to mention D&D in a positive light on a PageRank 9 website in a format that will generate social media connections.

Agreed. It reads more a promotion than a hobby game review to me.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

What amuses me is some people point out particular mechanics (like healing surges) and call them "video game-like," but can't point out a single video game that uses them.

Dropping another quarter into Gauntlet.