Re: Further D&D sacred cows being sacrificed in 5E D&D?

On Jul 3, 6:29 am, Tetsubo <tets...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Parvati V wrote:
Tetsubo wrote:

Which is why I keep asking the question of 4E fans: If you prefer 4E
 over 3.5, why did you ever play D&D?

Simple: 4E is more like the D&D /I/ loved than any of the 3.X and their
clones (and I've tried quite a few).

Seconded...


        I am sincerely and honestly not attempting to start a fight nor crap on
your opinion.
        That statement makes *absolutely* no sense to me. None. It's like you
are speaking in a foreign language. Which is not a dig at your native
tongue.
        4E, to me is as far from D&d as you can get. It's about as close as
Earthdawn or GURPS. It really and truly isn't D&D to me. How it can feel
*more* like D&D to you baffles me. I am bothered by my inability to
comprehend how you can think that. This makes as much sense to me as the
following statement, "Sushi is the best Mexican food I've ever had."
        If 4E is what you've always wanted, I'm sorry you had to deal with the
past thirty years of D&D. It must have frustrated you as much as 4E
vexes me.

In my case I missed 2e. I only had one campaign I truly enjoyed in 3.x
out of about 6. The amount of time required to set up adventures in
3.x is so prohibitive it forced me to run published modules, which I
found atrocious. Even playing, the amount of time to update my
character was far too much, and I had quit at one point from even
doing that it so irked me.

4E may not be the same rules of 2e, and I wouldn't want it to be
(otherwise I'd just go back to playing 2e - if I could find players).
It has the spirit of D&D that I grew up with far more than the
Accountants and Auditors that 3e had become. There's certainly a lot
that could be fixed in 4e, and I keep coming across more and more
warts of the system, but that's to be expected in such a massive
overhaul. It did however reduce the bookkeeping by leaps and bounds
compared to 3.x and make the system far more accessible.

- Justisaur
.

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