4e isn't WoW, its...

[historycrusader]

Maybe it's the smart-aleck in me, but this morning as I was flipping through my new PHB before work, I realized the computer game that 4e seems closest to isn't WoW, it's Guild Wars.

I'll elaborate: Classes have powers, which have recharge times. You can only have so many powers at one time, but you can swap the out for different ones, multi-classing gives you access to some feats from the other class, but not the whole thing, armor types, etc.

Given, it may be superficial, but it seems closer than the similarity to WoW.

[Illiterate Scribe]

I think my name makes a fine battle cry. "Sorrow!" What do you think?

[Crazy_Uncle_Doug]

IT'S PEOPLE! SOYLENT 4E IS PEEEEOOPLLLLLLEEE!

Or - um ... maybe not.

[Kurald Galain]

You know, I'm pretty sure 4E has turned into Monopoly. Because it has these dice, you know, and you can move your character around and buy stuff! What a ripoff...

[brian c]

You know, I'm pretty sure 4E has turned into Monopoly. Because it has these dice, you know, and you can move your character around and buy stuff! What a ripoff...

Boardwalk is way overpowered; I'm waiting for them to nerf it in 4.5, also made railroads better because right now they're only good early in the game.


(by the way, general advice: never play Monopoly with Economics grad students. Ruined the fun.)

[JaxGaret]

4e isn't WoW, it's D&D.

[EvilElitest]

Personally, i think 4E is like a lot of video games, not WoW in particular, nor MMOs. It does share a lot of qualities and the flatness of video games and limits itself unnecessarily. Through it has a few qualities of Dominic Deegan in term of the caste system
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[Xuincherguixe]

Oh, I'll play

4e isn't WoW, its...
-Everquest
-A spatula
-The fries you got with that
-An enraged badger
-A conspiracy of Ravens
-That large crop of Asparagus
-Antagonistic electric stars that breathe murder
-Antagonistic electric stars that breathe gerbils
-A diet coke
-An accurate horse thief simulation
-An excuse to teach trees Kung Fu
-A cunning plan
-The wolf that will swallow the sun, and the wolf that will swallow the moon
-A form of Blank Media that will replace DVDs.
-What will bring world peace
-What will end world hunger
-A large squirrel with a saddle that one can ride on
-The Dragon who arranged it's own assassination

I'm sure I could go on, but I won't.

[Ozymandias]

It shares many similarities with computer games, especially computer RPGs.

Because, you know, they're both games.

The most fundamental difference between Tabletop RPGs and CRPGs is in limitations. The most fundamental limitation was, has been, and remains, that computers cannot improvise or create like humans can. 4e is simpler (whether less turgid or more simplistic is wholly a matter of opinion) than 3e but has not changed in this most basic regard.

[Glawackus]

...DDO!

There is a ten character minimum.

[FoE]

... over nine thousand!

[JaxGaret]

-An accurate horse thief simulation

I want, nay, need to play this.

[SamTheCleric]

... Matrix Online!

I mean, the books say that Neo is the one and that if you cast the Oracle ritual, she'll tell you so... and maybe give you a cookie. And there are these guys, they are called Agents, they are Solo monsters that don't like people messing with their cool magic.

...

What?

[chiasaur11]

A timelord, and Wizards is its TARDIS.

Ah, TVtropes.

[The Necroswanso]

From what I've seen.... It's a fantasy setting game. Not some "fix" for 3.5, not some, messiah of RPGS. It's just a fantasy pen and paper game. Sheesh.... Also, any reason Dragonborn look like nightmarish fish monsters?

[Worira]

... a series of tubes!

[Xuincherguixe]

I've kind of always wanted to steal horses in a D&D game, but in a post I can't be bothered to link to, there was a link to an article on the top 10 least played classes, one of which was a "Horse Thief".

So, at some point in the future I am definitely going to encourage my players to steal some horses.

[monty]

... a series of tubes!

Nope, I'm pretty sure 4e is a dump truck.

[Ozymandias]

That's no morepig, it's a space station!

[Flewellyn]

-The other green meat!

[Abardam]

Maybe it's the smart-aleck in me, but this morning as I was flipping through my new PHB before work, I realized the computer game that 4e seems closest to isn't WoW, it's Guild Wars.

I'll elaborate: Classes have powers, which have recharge times. You can only have so many powers at one time, but you can swap the out for different ones, multi-classing gives you access to some feats from the other class, but not the whole thing, armor types, etc.

Given, it may be superficial, but it seems closer than the similarity to WoW.

Don't forget the Death Penalty!

[spamoo]

...More polarizing than politics.

So, at some point in the future I am definitely going to encourage my players to steal some horses.

This happens for a different reason in nearly every campaign I play... I have no clue why.

[Roderick_BR]

You know, I'm pretty sure 4E has turned into Monopoly. Because it has these dice, you know, and you can move your character around and buy stuff! What a ripoff...

The fighter has a power that give him an attack of opportunity to any enemy he is marking that pass Go. If he hits, the enemy doesn't collect 200.

[Pie Guy]

Run For Your Lives, 4e Has Became An Intellingent Zombie Horde!

[Moff Chumley]

... a series of tubes!

Thread over, epic cookiness achieved. Worira, you win.

[FoE]

This happens for a different reason in nearly every campaign I play... I have no clue why.

You're playing Dungeons and Dragons, the game that in no way endorses the cool crime of robbery!

[osricjm]

Monty Python's Flying Circus

[Jimp]

I want, nay, need to play this.

Pun intended?

[Waspinator]

Oh, I'll play

4e isn't WoW, its...
-Everquest
-A spatula
-The fries you got with that
-An enraged badger
-A conspiracy of Ravens
-That large crop of Asparagus
-Antagonistic electric stars that breathe murder
-Antagonistic electric stars that breathe gerbils
-A diet coke
-An accurate horse thief simulation
-An excuse to teach trees Kung Fu
-A cunning plan
-The wolf that will swallow the sun, and the wolf that will swallow the moon
-A form of Blank Media that will replace DVDs.
-What will bring world peace
-What will end world hunger
-A large squirrel with a saddle that one can ride on
-The Dragon who arranged it's own assassination

I'm sure I could go on, but I won't.

And you can get all this for just five easy payments of $19.95!

Plus your soul.

[JaxGaret]

Pun intended?

What pun we have