DnD 4E

[Oldie]

So who out there has adapted to 4e? My group of friends and I have switched over from 3.5 and we enjoy it more. The fighting is more about tactics now and less about looking up how to grapple . Also all the support online for it is fantastic.

 

[Cupcake]

I had typed up a huge response to this but Opera crashed on me before I posted it. In short, you'll want to check out Pathfinders. It's a third-party "fix" for 3.5e that takes care of a ton of the problems with 3.5e without having to change completely over to 4e which has its own heap of problems that need fixing.

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/ <- Pathfinders SRD.

(In particular, I advise you to at least find the page for combat maneuvers and look at how well and streamlined it's become.)

 

[Spitfire'd]

I don't play DnD (well not anymore than Neverwinter Nights lol) but I listened to Penny Arcade's podcasts that they did to help promote it.

It was pretty nice sounding. If I joined my group of friends that played I think they'd still be in 3.5. I think I'd be ok with either.

 

[Oldie]

Cupcake, thanks for that post, but we preatty much made the vote to switch over to 4.0. We have invested in books, and DnD insider. We are pretty happy with the choice really, everyone likes it alot more because we have a mixed group of players. Lots of casuals with a few hardcore members. The casuals like the fact that they are outclassed too much by hardcore character builders, and the hardcore like that they no longer have to take care of them. Also there is a LOT less arguing over rules, its alot more streamlined. Our group is very focused on stories, and the combat ussualy slowed us down with an encounter lasting 2 hours (we have 6-7 playing ussualy) with the majority of the time spent diving into the rules books.