Another improvement - in my opinion - is the way that they've spread out the fun stuff to more classes. I have a friend who only ever played wizards in 3.5. When we switched to 4.0 to try it out, he was veyr angry because he felt like he had fewer exciting, utility, or awesome spells. Which is partially true, but most of those spells and abilities still exist... they were just redistributed to other classes, meaning that the OTHER players actually had cool abilities beyond standing there and swinging a weapon. It was a loss for the wizard players, but a net gain.
One thing I will add here that is a positive for 4E is that the wizard class in particular has been better balanced: they have more options at lower level, and are much less ridiculous at higher level. In my current (3.5) D&D group, we had a wizard who would routinely wreck encounters with a few spells that all consisted of Fortitude saves (if any were even allowed).
What REAL games do you like? (computer/video games don't count)
- 20/10/2009 07:06:58 PM
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My own list
- 20/10/2009 07:41:40 PM
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Wow, do you own a game store or something?
- 20/10/2009 08:28:02 PM
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If it weren't for the internet and death of retail, I would be tempted to open one
- 21/10/2009 05:06:09 PM
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"Forgetting something?" Surely you didn't do that all from memory? O_o *NM*
- 20/10/2009 09:18:04 PM
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Do you think I'm going to pull everything out of my games closet or keep walking over to look at it?
- 21/10/2009 04:57:11 PM
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Out of curiosity...
- 20/10/2009 07:50:14 PM
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Multiplayer video games are social as well. I just don't have friends who play them.
- 21/10/2009 04:59:55 PM
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I enjoy most games.
- 20/10/2009 08:29:28 PM
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Ping pong. *NM*
- 20/10/2009 10:24:01 PM
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I also played a card game called Lost Cities. It was new to me, but fun. *NM*
- 21/10/2009 01:39:54 AM
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How I read that subject bar 
- 20/10/2009 11:49:26 PM
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- 20/10/2009 11:49:26 PM
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I just learned a few new ones at a family reunion
- 21/10/2009 03:08:08 AM
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My Uncle had the triangle with the holes and the golf tees at his house
- 02/11/2009 07:47:23 PM
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Re: What REAL games do you like? (computer/video games don't count)
- 21/10/2009 02:48:42 PM
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I hear there is a lot of resistance to 4th Edition D&D
- 21/10/2009 05:04:07 PM
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Re: I hear there is a lot of resistance to 4th Edition D&D
- 21/10/2009 07:23:56 PM
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4E is poor. PATHFINDER is better, although not as radical as perhaps it should have been.
- 26/10/2009 05:05:18 PM
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On 4th Edition...
- 21/10/2009 09:41:43 PM
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Re: On 4th Edition...
- 23/10/2009 02:30:29 PM
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