There’s still the rewards of thinking outside the box as there always were. My first session I threw a pint of oil and had the mage set it on fire vs some dire spiders. Second session, I ran screaming across a bridge as it collapsed behind me. Third session, our party of level 5 adventurers took down a level 20 tuned to level 18 solo target by shoving her off a cliff (see; retuned Witchfire trilogy from another module).

The point? If you’re expecting the same game, you’ll be sorely disappointed and hardly enjoy yourself. Don’t expect the same game.

It is stream-lined like a video game just as the White states. The action in the game and even the skills are a bit button like. For example things are less feats and more like: look how cool i am, i can do something special every round….wait a minute if i can blast off the same spell or ability every round is that really special….hmmm maybe not…. well ill blast anyway, since im on this square and have nothing else in my brain and thats all that the game gives me for commands. [see] press (y) button, press (x) button, whoops im out of buttons to press, now WTF do i do.

Maybe the sumation is that a (Game) [read. DnD] that is supposed to be all imagination and thinking outside of the box, sort of stunts your desire to think for yourself [read. 4 th edit].

We were talking with a few people while flipping through the Players Handbook, commenting on a lot of the changes.

Robin: Jesus, you don’t role for hit points anymore??

Psoriasis dude: Well the DM can always add that rule in.

Chris: There’s no more critical misses?

Man-woman: You can play ones as critical misses if you want to, that’s up to the DM.

Fraser: Fuck me, you don’t role for stats anymore?

Danny Devito lady: You don’t have too, but your DM could rule in favour of that.

See the pattern? If the DM can add all these rules and make all these changes, what’s the point in shelling out cash for all the new books? DM’s are free!!

The only possible good thing I see coming out of this is the online support of it. It looks like they are adding some nifty aspects where you can create unique character skins and build battle maps based on your campaigns. But I’m sure they’ll fuck this up somehow.

Playing 4th edition is like watching some dude fuck a hot chick for you.