Dungeons and Dragons Adventure Tools

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rocketpig said:

I tried D&D when they released 3rd edition but it just didn't hold my interest. I haven't really role-played in almost ten years.

My favorite game was the original Star Wars, anyway. The rule system left everything up to the GM, which allowed for much hilarity. It also featured "Heroic rolls", which were almost impossible to do and left me with half a legion of dead Stormtroopers, one of my players wearing Boba Fett's armor, and a dead Bossk over a weekend. I never forgave my friend Jimmy for those three rolls. Lucky bastard, the son of a bitch virtually blew up Mos Eisley single-handed.

Yeah, but for every epic awesome moment players also have epic bad moments. 

And 4th Edition is actually really good.  They completely streamlined everything and just made everything really simple.  Usually such a simplifying of things would sound horrible but they actually did a pretty excellent job of it.

The thing I was most impressed with was that they actually made 1st level fun for all classes and gave you things to do.  Instead of just having attacks, every one has powers similar to a mages spell.  You have at-will, encounter, and daily powers along with your basic attack you almost never use.

It's just a really nice system.