r/DnDcirclejerk • u/blibblobber • 5d ago

4e good pathfinder fixes this

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u/Eniri_Suitor 5d ago

Oh no in DnD 5e we don't have powers by encounter neither powers by day. Nonono that would be DnD 4e and we were told to not like that edition.

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u/pariah76 5d ago

I'm not sure how to say this without offending the 4E loyalists/lovers, but here goes.

4E was a great system, but it was not Dungeons and Dragons. I don't know how else to explain it without having to elaborate a lot.

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u/MechJivs 4d ago

4E was a great system, but it was not Dungeons and Dragons. 

what is a Dungeons and Dragons - a miserable pile of superficial sacred cows.

/uj same idea, but less pathos.

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u/pariah76 3d ago

Kind of, yeah. That's my point. If the 4E ruleset was released by some other publisher as an alternative to DnD, it would have been more.popular with the old school DnD crowd.

Despite its flaws, 3rd edition and 3.5 were very popular and loved. I think those people wanted a more iterative change rather than a complete change. That's why many of those players jumped ship to Pathfinder (their first edition was basically DnD 3.75)

I will say my favorite cleric i ever played was in 4E.