• 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*.