James Wyatt on D&D 4E and WoW
For those of you saying D&D 4E is too much like WoW, James Wyatt has written a rebuttal to justify a lot of the choices they made when designing the system:http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=1044100
Wyatt's comments after the post are also worth reading, particularly his comments on character roles-he implies that four clerics is the "best party in the game" in 3E :-)-and product maturity:
You're comparing the PH of 4e with the mature product line of 3.5. Just with the PH, you can build different fighters with very different feels. When you add Martial Power to the mix, those options will expand dramatically. When you add PH2 and its eight new classes, the game expands greatly again.
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
-Oscar Wilde
"One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure."
-Gertrude Stein
Wyatt's comments after the post are also worth reading, particularly his comments on character roles-he implies that four clerics is the "best party in the game" in 3E :-)-and product maturity:
You're comparing the PH of 4e with the mature product line of 3.5. Just with the PH, you can build different fighters with very different feels. When you add Martial Power to the mix, those options will expand dramatically. When you add PH2 and its eight new classes, the game expands greatly again.
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
-Oscar Wilde
"One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure."
-Gertrude Stein