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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WarpZone" data-source="post: 4323446" data-attributes="member: 70841">Oh, I see now.  I thought Combat Advantage was intended as some kinda catch-all condition because that's what the words "combat advantage" sound like.  Any advantage relating to combat.But I can see now that the various status conditions do different things, and have different uses.  It's also good to know that the DM can still hand out bonuses arbitrarily.  (This DM won't feel comfortable doing so until he groks the balance of the game, of course, but it's good to know the potential for sideways-thinking mischief is still there.)CMV: What I think people mean when they say that is, the player has a finite number of pre-defined ways in which they can interact with their environment.  You can't argue with an NPC in a video game.  You can't take out a support beam to collapse a structure on top of your enemies.  You can't climb over a wall instead of going around it.  All you can do in a video game is move through the environment the way the programmers intended, and combat in a video game consists of choosing which of three special moves to do.  In that sense, on a continum of how much a game emphasizes storytelling over mechanics, it goes WoW < 4E < 3.5 < White Wolf or something.  But that's just the out-of-the-box experience.  I'm confident there's potential here to have every bit as much fun as we had under 3.5.  It's just WotC didn't make that route so obvious, because they were focused on nailing down the mechanics.I hope that by asking these questions in this fourm, I'll be able to get around the preconception that 4E is somehow less of an RPG than 3.5, and learn from other players how to mesh 4E with our style of play.</blockquote>

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