tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post5809639462007628700..comments2024-03-29T03:53:01.413-07:00Comments on B/X BLACKRAZOR: Delving 4E (Part 3)JBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-58319864057023615792015-10-01T06:22:32.767-07:002015-10-01T06:22:32.767-07:00@ Nicholas:
As I remember, the draconians of DL w...@ Nicholas:<br /><br />As I remember, the draconians of DL were never a PC race, but an abomination caused by warping the unborn hatchlings of good dragon eggs with the darkest of magic...and as such, something to be stamped out without guilt.<br /><br />But, hey, Rifts lets you play a "young dragon" as a PC class, so why shouldn't D&D follow Palladium's lead for a change?<br />; )JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-1242493141413734472015-09-30T13:56:54.026-07:002015-09-30T13:56:54.026-07:00No. What's really lame is when the campaign fa...No. What's really lame is when the campaign falls apart after 3 or 4 sessions and they've spent all that time on the hunt for optimization. <br /><br />Oh, and the first session is the "character building/planning session."<br /><br />I've seen this sort of thing still happen with Pathfinder players. <br /><br />I haven't played 5e... yet, but I'm glad to see the game had gotten farther away from the character builder/optimization/power gamer model. Stelios V. Perdioshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05466676702515521939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-91692812084893329202015-09-30T13:09:37.474-07:002015-09-30T13:09:37.474-07:00The focus on building a character went crazy off t...The focus on building a character went crazy off the deep end in 3.5 and 4E. People planning their characters out to 20th or 30th level from day one with assumptions about what equipment will be acquired, etc. Super lame IMO.<br /><br />They swung this back around to reasonable in 5E where the books aren't 80% indulgent candy store for the char op types.Fumershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14156302616243889562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-35825250972622663582015-09-30T10:09:44.458-07:002015-09-30T10:09:44.458-07:00Always intrigued at the idea that for some the har...Always intrigued at the idea that for some the hard line in the sand was tieflings and dragonborn....mostly because I had introduced a custom race called draconians that were basically dragonborn to my own 1E games back in 1982ish, and I had tieflings as a staple of my games from around 1992 on when Planescape arrived. As a result, I've seen both as conceptually "D&D" to me for 33 and 22 years respectively now.Doctor Futurityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02586371999646337047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-59479678341958903552015-09-30T08:40:16.106-07:002015-09-30T08:40:16.106-07:00I think you would be happy to know that a lot of t...I think you would be happy to know that a lot of the things you are mentioning that you like made their way into 5th edition, as well as the "archery" and "two-weapon fighting" options being opened up to fighters. Albeit, the game is much, much less tactical than 4e, though still probably a little bit more combat oriented than earlier editions. <br /><br />Dragonborn and Tieflings are still around, though significantly downplayed. Tieflings were actually rather interesting in Planescape and in 3rd edition, before the art-shift. They were more "normal people, maybe with horns or weird eyes" not "demon twi'leks."<br /><br />Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17939309042792833333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-67677696895228693982015-09-29T12:10:06.322-07:002015-09-29T12:10:06.322-07:00@ Stelios:
Glad you're liking it. Really, I a...@ Stelios:<br /><br />Glad you're liking it. Really, I am.<br />: )JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-48414913598420124992015-09-29T09:48:27.179-07:002015-09-29T09:48:27.179-07:00I love this series. A lot of what you're sayin...I love this series. A lot of what you're saying is exactly what I thought back in 2008/09 when I ran 4e for about 3 months. No doubt, the game LOOKS fun--The presentation, The classes and builds, each character and monster having a "role." Preparing game was easier than it was for 3.5e. <br /><br />But I ended up walking away because it just didn't "feel" like D&D. All those builds and supposed "options" ended up being too restrictive for my taste.<br /><br />It also didn't help that WotC a bunch of errata soon after 4e's release--basic things like the difficulty class by level had to be corrected. Which, in a way, leads back to one of your first questions: "What were they thinking?"Stelios V. Perdioshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05466676702515521939noreply@blogger.com