Happy (EARLY!) Birthday to Me!
My Geek Boy got me the 4e Core Books for my birthday (which isn’t for a couple weeks).
He’s so sweet!
Why do new books smell so good?
Is anybody else sad that Bard isn’t in the PHB?
I mean, I knew it wasn’t going to be, but it’s still kinda sad to not see it.
*sniffle*
Mmmmm… new book smell.
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I like Bards…is makes me sad that I have to wait till PHB II for Bards and Monks. =*(
I am looking forward to see how they handle the Bard with this new system.
After playing a 1st level game, I’ve found that they run like they had the resources of 4th level characters and 30th level comes off looking like 20th level in disguise (but I’ve been assured it runs like you were at 15th level). Its not a bad game in and of itself, but I prefer the options you have playing 3.5e with player customization, though I will be cribbing from 4e for things that they do (I used the Solo template in a 3.5e game and the fight ended up being a lot of fun).
Congratulations! May they see much use. Shouldn’t be hard finding gamers in Charlotte, after all. If I hadn’t burned those bridges, I’d give you some of my old contacts.
And, yes, it’s sad not to have bard or monk (I loved my Scottish bar-room brawler/modified monk, darn it). However, if they’re serious about trying to develop a distinctive flavor to the classes before releasing them, I’m all for it. I’d love to finally have a bard that feels like a court intrigue specialist/performer, as opposed to a second-rate fighter/sorcerer who learned how to strum a lute. As for monk, much as I loved Seamus, it’s an odd class to include in baseline D&D. I would be okay waiting to see it in a Kara-Tur/Oriental Adventures book.
Personnaly, I love 4e, it runs a lot smoother and previous editon. As a DM, it’s a gem. And my players love it, so I’m happy.
Has for bard, don’t lose hope just yet. It’ll appear sometimes in the future… or so they say.
When it comes out in the next sourcebook it will be the Warbard :p My pre-ordered core set is in the mail… hurry up and get here!
I hate it. =*(
I really wanted to like this system but it just duos not feel like D&D. Is a shadow of D&D, It feels like a video game version of D&D.
Is not D&D, is something els trying to be D&D.
This will be like when D&D 2E came out, people were unhappy, so unhappy that they looked for other gaming systems…hell if it was not for 2E I would have never discovered GURPS, ShadowRun, StarWarsD6, DeadLands, ext. This will be the same, it will bring a new era of Table Top Gaming.
I agree LokyCat, but not for the same reasons as you. I think it will bring about a new era because this new iteration of D&D is far more accessible to the everyman, and goes out of its way to make the experience smoother and less resource-intensive than any previous edition. The problem 3.x had was that it got too bloated on itself. Far too many resources, far too many feats, prestige classes, variant rules, etc. Yes, you could customize into almost any character you could imagine, but you’d need about four character sheet’s worth of list on all the abilities, rules exceptions and useless crap that you’d have to have for the character. My last 3.25 character’s sheet was nine pages long! (Granted, he WAS a 15 wizard/5 archmage/5 fatespinner/3 bladesinger, and I AM a completist).
For those of you who are sad at there being no bard, I have to tell you, making new classes for 4th Edition is a piece of cake! The template is so easy to follow, with the selection of at-will, encounter, daily, utility and prestige/epic abilities that making a new class that falls in line with the other classes is a snap! In just a few hours’ worth of work, you could easily have a new class (with your DM’s assistance). You could have a lot of fun with this one, too. Far a bard, for example, you could borrow from many sources for the titles of abilites to fall in line with the sometimes-cheesy names for the abilities the other classes have. A few choice ability names I cam up with are: Rock You Like a Hurricane, Duel of the Fates, I Want to &%$# You Like an Animal (charm spell that only works on the opposite gender), Don’t Fear the Reaper (anti-fear encounter power), Welcome to My Nightmare, and Highway to Hell. Have them Implement-Based (instruments, of course) and you’re set!
Oh, and by the way, happy b elated birthday e.
Bards. Monks. Druids.
Sadness.
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Bards will return triumphantly!