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Just some comments: 1. On the D&D 4E discord you can find a lot of working fanmade digital tools, so even if your laptop crashes you can get for example a character builder again. 2. There are also several fanmade implementations for 4E for virtual tabletops which you can find. Of course...

I think this was a really good simplification and fit the essential classes (which should be simpler to play) quite well. It made the difference between the defenders a bit smaller, but I think it may be worth it, with making the combat simpler. It also made it possible to have the berserker...

Glad you liked the answer, but lets give a bit more detail on what was specifically gained for your case: Feats: 4 Specific star pact feats were introduced later among them 3 potential general potential useful ones: - Ulban's Flare: When you hit a creature with dire radiance and you have...

General fixes for old classes: In general the improvement happened by just releasing WAY more powers to choose from. the V shaped classes had (in my oppinion) not a problem per se, but only because there were not enough powers supporting them. As an example the warlock had 75 Powers printed...

I fully agree and I never saw any reason to not add it just to normal 4E it was always meant to be compatible, it just had a confusing marketing and people were overreacting over it. And as I said before having simple classes does broaden the game and can help some people. And its not like...

I have looked through Orcus in depth. It is pretty much fully compatible with 4E there are some changes/differences: - Some words of mechanis are changed to make sure to run not into copyright issues (just a name change not mechanic) - Classes each have 2 "power lists" they can choose powers...

Not sure if you found the discord or not, but one other simple way is to email scrivener of doom: About "cant go nova": Arent action points (+ dailies) for that? If you use an action point you get 1 more attack (and from level 11 on even a big bonus). This is literally the action surge from...

I did say "teamplay was inspired by football" and not "roles were inspired by football" right? (The names of the 4 roles come from football, because football was an inspiration to the core team). Of course the 4 roles were established before its the "original 4 classes" of D&D (or trying to...

I may be a bit late to the party, but I still thought I would like to add my thoughts on why I like D&D 4E: 1. It (still) feels like the most modern D&D implementation. Since it took inspiration from many other forms of games: - The clear, precise and consistent wording was clearly taken from...

This is true. Magic schools are there, because people are used to magic schools, thats why for me it makes also more sense. Its not only D&D who does this a lot of games (computer games, magic the gathering with the colour pie, and other card and digital games as well) use the schools, thats why...

I really like this implementation of the barbarian as well. The rage has a purpose, its not just a buff you start in the beginning of combat anyway if you can, its a choice and will change how you play. Its a bit of a shame 4E was over soon after that book, because for me it felt that they were...

Well it does come with allowing certain feats if you are also martial, or allowing certain paragon paths etc. So sure mechanically it is not a big bonus, but it is a bonus nevertheless. (I would even argue that it makes sense that you can only use powers for which you have the power source, but...

Ah that makes sense yes, the other Monk implementations are really just weak. What exactly did you mean with the Thief as least bad? Thief as different to rogue? I personally think the Executioner Assassin is a really nice implementation of what a lot of rogue-archetypes try to be. (Yes I...

Well interrupts can be fun, but in the end it makes the combat take longer AND it is mostly just "more complicated multi attack". Its for sure more interesting than just the pure multiattack powers, but I feel when you read guides etc. most people played or were assumed to play the Ranger as a...

Well maybe, but it would be less special. 4E stands out and is used even nowadays as inspiration for a lot of games because it did things different and not everyone liked that. Essentials overall is not bad 4E material, it had some good designs, but the first book was just a punch into the...