Re:Don't you lecture me with your thirty dollar website
by Aeolun on Saturday January 29, 2022 @05:53PM
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I think the charm of 2nd edition is exactly that it’s such an unbalanced mess.
4th by comparison feels like a MMO with all the uniquesness sucked out of it.
5e backpedals on that and goes more or less back to where 3.5e used to be, but less complicated (magic still hasn’t recovered to it’s former levels though).
I really like 4e, our big serious campaign is 4e with increasing amounts of customisation because of course Wizards never really polish the high level game, there's no money in it. But it's a very different game from 2nd edition.
My Wizard was written out (the other PCs basically killed him, hint taken) but you couldn't write a character like that in 2nd, limitless power just comes naturally to Magic Users in the old game, in 4e Magical Trevor had to make some really difficult compromises to be able to have his flexibility and he still wasn't the star of the show.
(The other characters think giving Orcus a god-killing weapon was a bad idea, and they blamed Trevor even though it might work, apparently Orcus is "bad" and it's better that the universe is destroyed than he gets a god-killing weapon. Trevor did not agree)