Over the top 4e Battle Scene

[tilt]

A lot of people is talking about D&D is becomming the pen-and-paper version of a computergame, what I think that people forget is that D&D is more than combat - combat is great fun, but it is all the stories that tie it all together that is roleplaying - so basicly if you play D&D, AD&D, D&D 3, D&D 3.5, D&D Pathfinder, D&D 4e or D&D homebrew - it's all about what you do with it. I personally am very pleased with the new rules, and I love that all characters can be equally involved in combat, a wizard can fire spells all the way through - not limited to 2 magic missiles and then a short nap ... a cleric can help healing, but can do so as a minor action, and therefor is able to fight also and not only a healing machine (which many clerics got reduced to by falling comrades), everybody can heal a little in the new rules (taking ones second wind). All in all well balanced and great fun to play. It is of course always personal taste that decides, but I've played perhaps 30 different types of rpg's during my 30 years of playing, so I've seen a lot of cool stuff and a lot of ... not-so-cool stuff, so I have a little experience to draw from *lol*.
And kudos to wizards for reviving D&D after TSR let it slide...
(and neonknight - yep, but the paladin then HAVE to engage, or he looses the mark and the ability to mark for a turn - so they all have advantages and disadvantages ... just trying to say to players that don't play 4e, that there is a lot of tactics involved, not just point-and-click combat *lol*)

[Gamerprinter]

Come on guys, no need for an edition war, we're just talking about map challenge. By the looks of it, it will probably not be one. Point is a "challenge" is supposed to challenge you to create a map that follows a theme or set of rules.

Me, I'm not interested in playing 4e now nor probably ever, but as a challenge to create a map - I'm always game to anything that might get me to think about how to best create such a map, any map.

So in my explorations on what is a 4e map, that's different from any other - this is something I whipped up today before going to dinner for Mother's Day. Several members at RPGNet have mentioned that this map is very much 4e - so I seem to be getting a hang of the idea...

This map was inspired by Avatar (the movie), I just seen it for the first time last night at a friend house who has an HD TV and this was a blu-ray disc version (awesome flick by the way.) This is my version of a slightly more generic Sky Mountains map (the Halleluyah Mountains).