• Girdy@ttrpg.networkOP
    2·
    2 days ago

    I wasn’t sure whether to use Polygon’s title verbatim or take the risk of changing it - I think the interesting angle is that people are still talking about 4e.

    • Aielman15@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 days ago

      4e has seen a resurgence among a huge segment of the playerbase that is unsatisfied with 5e’s shallowness.

      Although I reckon the vast majority of those have never actually played 4e, and only like the romanticization/nostalgic idea of how 4e played. Happens all the time with the gaming community, both tabletop and videogames.

      • Girdy@ttrpg.networkOP
        2·
        2 days ago

        I’ll admit - I always liked the concept of it. I read it as a game that tried to ensure that every character class had something/a role in combat (or conflict). That was clever. However, it didn’t always quite work. My first time through, I played a Warlord but with a too small group there wasn’t any real way I could help move, buff or otherwise help allies so I just felt like a naff fighter.

      • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
        1·
        2 days ago

        I’m surprised that hasn’t lead instead to more people turning towards Pathfinder 2.

        • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          was gonna say this. I hated 4 and kept with regular pathfinder but then pathfinder 2 I love as a true upgrade.

          • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
            1·
            1 day ago

            In that case… Dear everybody this reaches: Pathfinder 2 was designed to take the best of D&D 3.5 and the genuinely good parts of 4e. Also D&D has such a thing as *editions*.