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kohaku_wind) wrote2008-06-15 11:33 pm
kohaku_wind) wrote2008-06-15 11:33 pm
No cigar and an armchair, but I'll make do
So I "found" a copy of DnD 4E. Initial impressions to follow, as bullet-points:
-Long overdue change to alignment regarding world balance. I can’t help but think that everything was greatly oversimplified. More than before, I mean. Still, that might be a good thing; that it doesn't try to cover everything means that more people won't expect to... well... cover everything.
-Loving the advancement system. Should help me resist the urge to throw more XP at the party than what is recommended.
-I'm not bothered so much by the separation of the elves, rather what it signifies for the environs. Why are forests and magic forests separate entities? I guess “normal” forests could have a different flavor of magic than “magic” forests. Eh. We’ll see.
-The interpretation of the tieflings is a lot like a demon race I thought about a while ago, with a DND-appropriate backstory.
-The concept of activated Powers reminds me a lot of Exalted Charms. Especially the silly names (not quite as silly as Exalted though)
Last I checked, there were still discount core-sets still around at Amazon; maybe I'll pick one up.
-Long overdue change to alignment regarding world balance. I can’t help but think that everything was greatly oversimplified. More than before, I mean. Still, that might be a good thing; that it doesn't try to cover everything means that more people won't expect to... well... cover everything.
-Loving the advancement system. Should help me resist the urge to throw more XP at the party than what is recommended.
-I'm not bothered so much by the separation of the elves, rather what it signifies for the environs. Why are forests and magic forests separate entities? I guess “normal” forests could have a different flavor of magic than “magic” forests. Eh. We’ll see.
-The interpretation of the tieflings is a lot like a demon race I thought about a while ago, with a DND-appropriate backstory.
-The concept of activated Powers reminds me a lot of Exalted Charms. Especially the silly names (not quite as silly as Exalted though)
Last I checked, there were still discount core-sets still around at Amazon; maybe I'll pick one up.
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I don't think it's really that much of a downer to claim that while the forest near my house is touched by fey forces, that forest is still very much a "real" place -- mappable, measurable, razeable for the purpose of building a new castle if I really wanted -- and the true unbounded forest where the faeries actually live remains beyond the mushroom rings.
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