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I think I've just figured out why I find D&D 4th edition at once a little unsettling and a little appealing: It's fucking Exalted.
Think about it. You have Dragonblooded (Dragonborn), Fair Folk (Eladrin), and Abyssals (Tieflings) all as base character races, plus the standard Tolkienesque fare of humans, dwarves, elves, and halflings. Every class and type of character has their choice of a list of powers that all fall under the same basic structure. You have action points.
Admittedly, I'm only through the first few chapters of the PHB, but I'm wary.
Think about it. You have Dragonblooded (Dragonborn), Fair Folk (Eladrin), and Abyssals (Tieflings) all as base character races, plus the standard Tolkienesque fare of humans, dwarves, elves, and halflings. Every class and type of character has their choice of a list of powers that all fall under the same basic structure. You have action points.
Admittedly, I'm only through the first few chapters of the PHB, but I'm wary.