These rats ain't gonna club themselves

[prog]

OK I have heard enough about the nu-wave tabletop rolly-hitty RPGs of the last coupla years to wanna play one.

I would love to try either Descent or D&D4 sometime. Any action around here I can get in on? Anything else I should be playing?

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[dougo.livejournal.com]

For what it's worth, there's exactly as much role-playing in 4e as in 3e, that is, as much as your group wants. It's just that the combat and skill-challenge systems are the ones that need precise rules, so that's what the books spend the most time covering.

My impression is that 4e is pretty much a straight-line projection in the same direction that 3e started going in (except it happens not to be backwards-compatible). And the asyptotically-approached target seems to be to be something more like a Eurogame than a MMORPG. But I don't have any real experience with the latter, so who knows. Mainly the emphasis is more on having interesting choices rather than being a simulation.