Re: He...hellloooo?

Posted by Billiam Babble on Sep 17, 2011; 12:29am
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/He-hellloooo-tp6756175p6802833.html

Excellent, a discussion about DnD4! :)

Glad you've posted this 3D6.

I think I'm with Marchomer on a lot of the points.  However I'm a fan on high HP for starting characters, at least they feel like heroes from the outset.  Unfortunately I find the new core rulebooks indecipherable.  I cannot even generate characters from them.  I bought a few starter modules which actually have some pregens in.  It's horribly combat focussed and the new terms confuse me more.  And then yes, PH 1, 2, 3 makes me very cynical.  Also I don't think I can forgive WOTC for retaining Attacks of Opportunity which can tie a fight order in knots.  Maybe I need to buy the Red Box in order to be able to understand this flavour of game - perhaps soon they'll try to revise core books and the cycle will continue (no wonder folk are buying Pathfinder 3.5 products)
Maybe I just need to join a group of players who already understand the new rules, because they sure as aint going in from reading the rulebooks (which incidentally are gorgeous)  

I used to play AD&D, but D&D3 made so much better sense with the core mechanic and skills.  But maybe DnD4 shouldn't be presented in books, maybe it would work better as a card deck.  Also why don't WOTC sell individual figures? Or figures of a single type?  They never got over the randomised booster packs perhaps.

I wish I understood this game better.

How much have people here played the 4th edition. Even Mortis has dabbled with the latest Ravenloft. :)
 
 (typed on phone apologies for typos)