A review of D&D 4th Edition
I've played D&D before, somewhere I have most of the original white box set from the 70's. I've never much liked the game for a variety of reasons, my favorite game is Champions (superhero RPG), again, for a variety of reasons.
Well, the person who wrote this review has been playing and running for over 15 years, and he's written what seems to be a pretty fair first impression review of the system. It sounds like WotC has made two tremendous improvements in the game: first, the system has been smoothed out so that the different character classes are more uniform, second, and most important, they've made MAJOR improvements in the organization of the rule books. Everything the players need to know to run their characters is in the players handbook, everything the GM needs to know is in the GM guide. I've thought that D&D has been horribly organizaed since the beginning and always found this to be a major turn-off.
So congrats to D&Ders, sounds like you've got a lot of fun ahead. That doesn't mean that I'm running out to buy a copy and start running it, but if someone I knew started running it, I'd be more receptive to consider playing in a campaign.
http://www.gnomestew.com/specific-rpgs/a-gms-first-impressions-of-dnd-4e-looks-like-fun
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/07/1932233
Well, the person who wrote this review has been playing and running for over 15 years, and he's written what seems to be a pretty fair first impression review of the system. It sounds like WotC has made two tremendous improvements in the game: first, the system has been smoothed out so that the different character classes are more uniform, second, and most important, they've made MAJOR improvements in the organization of the rule books. Everything the players need to know to run their characters is in the players handbook, everything the GM needs to know is in the GM guide. I've thought that D&D has been horribly organizaed since the beginning and always found this to be a major turn-off.
So congrats to D&Ders, sounds like you've got a lot of fun ahead. That doesn't mean that I'm running out to buy a copy and start running it, but if someone I knew started running it, I'd be more receptive to consider playing in a campaign.
http://www.gnomestew.com/specific-rpgs/a-gms-first-impressions-of-dnd-4e-looks-like-fun
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/07/1932233