Oh cool, they finally ported 4e to the 3.5 ruleset, with a few minor adjustments.
Well, 5e does look a lot like 3.5e, with less feats, and a combat chapter that seems a lot more organized. I'm not really impressed; I wasn't expecting to be impressed after Monte Cook left the project, anyway. He didn't get special credit either -- he's between Skip and Tweet in the list.
Windows 8 was the D&D 4e of operating systems to me. Both took a well known design and did something revolutionary with it, and I received both with high hopes. I thought oh cool, maybe this will be a lot better. And then it turned out I really didn't like both, even though they both have merits. Win 8 is a great tablet operating system, that's pretty decent if you have a touchscreen, but I wanted to used it on a desktop and that's less than awesome. Fourth Edition seemed like a nice well-balanced MMO, except I tend to play with pen and paper, and without minis or computers. (Seriously, being a professional programmer I get more than enough computer exposure.)
Fourth ed might have been successful if they had called it something else, I don't know. But the issues that 4e set out to solve weren't really issues to me. I don't really care about character balance -- if the abilities are different enough, the GM should be able to create stories that keep everyone in the game. If combat is "taking too long", just do less of it and more roleplaying. Honestly, I just wanted better grapple rules. And for the system to do more inspiring of characters than limiting of characters. Obviously D&D as a whole probably isn't the best choice for me, but it's all about who you game with.
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Well, 5e does look a lot like 3.5e, with less feats, and a combat chapter that seems a lot more organized. I'm not really impressed; I wasn't expecting to be impressed after Monte Cook left the project, anyway. He didn't get special credit either -- he's between Skip and Tweet in the list.
Windows 8 was the D&D 4e of operating systems to me. Both took a well known design and did something revolutionary with it, and I received both with high hopes. I thought oh cool, maybe this will be a lot better. And then it turned out I really didn't like both, even though they both have merits. Win 8 is a great tablet operating system, that's pretty decent if you have a touchscreen, but I wanted to used it on a desktop and that's less than awesome. Fourth Edition seemed like a nice well-balanced MMO, except I tend to play with pen and paper, and without minis or computers. (Seriously, being a professional programmer I get more than enough computer exposure.)
Fourth ed might have been successful if they had called it something else, I don't know. But the issues that 4e set out to solve weren't really issues to me. I don't really care about character balance -- if the abilities are different enough, the GM should be able to create stories that keep everyone in the game. If combat is "taking too long", just do less of it and more roleplaying. Honestly, I just wanted better grapple rules. And for the system to do more inspiring of characters than limiting of characters. Obviously D&D as a whole probably isn't the best choice for me, but it's all about who you game with.
-- ∇×V