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[D&D 4th Ed]...What We (May) Know

Started by Zachary The First, August 23, 2007, 07:29:57 AM

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Blackleaf

#30
August 23, 2007, 04:13:37 PM
Quote from: jrientsThat turns me off a zillion times more than any talk about online games or the digital initiative or any of that junk.

No backstory until your character survives 1st level!  You can draw a picture of him if you want to.  Giving him a name is a plus.  ;)

James J Skach

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August 23, 2007, 04:22:21 PM
Quote from: jrientsThat turns me off a zillion times more than any talk about online games or the digital initiative or any of that junk.
Fucking hilarious, jrients...it's one of the lines I zoomed in on when reading the quote.  In paricular, that entire section:
QuoteAnd I'm also the guy around here that waves his RP freak flag the highest. I'm Mr. Social Challenge. I'm the guy who assigns his players backstory homework assignments. So anyone with preconceptions about WoW fans who play D&D...all I ask is that you adjust those preconceptions to include me.
And what I thought was, "He couldn't possibly mean it's OK to have the mechanics act like WoW because you can get by that in assigning character backstory homework assignments, can he?"

Because the issue, for me, isn't whether or not you'll be able to still RP in D&D 4th Edition. It's how the mechanics will make the game feel and how that might change.

Having said all that, I've read the OP a couple of times and I'm not quite freaked yet.  Not optimistic, but not freaked (no matter how people took my posts in the everyones-a-wizard thread).
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Zachary The First

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August 23, 2007, 11:19:53 PM
Quote from: StuartI always thought Robin Hood seemed more like a Rogue than a Fighter.  Then again all the D&D classes are really D&Disms and don't map well to folklore.  What was Friar Tuck?  A Cleric?

In my mind, Friar Tuck was a monk the way they should have made the monk in the first place.
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