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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thewok" data-source="post: 6334261" data-attributes="member: 60907">Fourth Edition will be remembered for many things, and whether these are positives or negatives depends entirely on your personal point of view.  For me, these are all positives:* Bringing non-magical characters up to the level of magical characters.* At-will spells so a wizard is never reduced to using a crossbow or throwing darts (unless he really wants to do so).* A focus on ease of DM preparation and improvisation.  I wanted to DM in 3E, but I was always too overwhelmed by the CRs and what not that I was afraid I'd never be able to challenge the party without killing them.* Universality of skills and amounts of skills between classes, especially the lack of any restricted skills. (This is one of my major problems with 3E and Pathfinder).* Removal of class-based attack bonuses.* A focus on making interesting encounters not just with monsters, but also with different terrain types, hazards and traps as integral parts of those encounters.* Removal of mechanical implications of alignment, which is a very subjective thing, as evidenced by numerous threads on numerous message boards and newsgroups over the years.* Addition of the Dragonborn and Tiefling.  Yes, I know these aren't the originals, but, for me, these are the iconic versions of the races.* A version of the Bard that I not only found not useless, but that I'd actually play.  Then the Skald came, and I liked that one even more.* A cosmology that I liked and will be keeping, regardless of 5E's return to the Great Wheel.* Introduction of other great classes (and new takes on older classes): Warlock (and the Hexblade subclass), Invoker, Bladesinger, Swordmage, Warlord, and all the Druid types.* No level adjustments on races.* No penalties on Racial ability score adjustments.There are others, and I'm sure that, given enough time to properly think about it, I could come up with a dozen more or so good points from 4E.  These are the big ones for me, though.  The one thing that I really didn't care for in 4E was the need for more and more magic items.  That was easily fixed with inherent bonuses, though.Oh.  Also the apparent need to set up a map and minis for every encounter.  This was not actually a thing, but enough people thought it was a necessity that it became a thing.  4E worked well without maps, but the presentation of the powers made it appears as if maps were required for everything.</blockquote>

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