Yeah it’s a bit of red-headed step child. There’s some pretty cool mechanical stuff in there though.
Yeah it’s a bit of red-headed step child. There’s some pretty cool mechanical stuff in there though.
Imo 4e is far and away the most analogous edition to a video game and it’s not close. That’s why a lot of longtime dnd players found the shift so jarring. It forewent a lot of the more RP and theater-of-the-mind focused parts of combat in particular and integrated systems that were inspired by tabletop war and tactics games. From a pure mechanics perspective, it was awesome and there was a lot to grab on to and really strategize/min-max. Some people didn’t like the trade-offs though. I think it is the most video game like in its core systems.
This was also my immediate thought
This happened to me once when I made the foolish error of opening a Bueno bar in front of Notre Dame in Paris. Was swarmed by a few dozen of these bois.