Everything old is new again

[khaosworks]

Am slowly going over the core rules for 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons.

Preliminary thoughts: lots of changes, but a lot simpler to grasp, and combat just got a lot more tactical. Basically, they're aiming this for the MMORPG crowd — you can almost immediately translate the mechanics into things that WoW players understand and vice versa. That's not necessarily a bad thing, by the way.

Whether I'll actually play it, well... that depends. The people I'd like to play it with happen, unfortunately, to be over in Georgia and Indiana...

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[marmota.livejournal.com]

*blink* Oh, great. So now D&D supports kiting, griefing, and pulling MOB trains onto lowbies? ;)

[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

And lag. Don't forget lag.