Yes, you are correct. I am going to take the word of the guy who started with WotC in 2005 and worked on the last three editions.
Because since its release "MMO Edition" or "WoW tabletop" has been used to deride 4e by people who never played it and just want to spread shit. robobo is right in that if you were to actually compare it to any video game it would be either tactics games like XCOM or turn based CRPGs like Fallout or later games like Divinity Original Sin but CRPGs are essentially single player digital tabletop games and so its less of a shit talk. Hell the closest MMOs to 4e are Dofus/Wakfu but they are fairly obscure and French so they obviously didn't inspire the game.
Was this okay, though, or was it annoying? I usually had a player like this, but was it always bad? I'd always try to make the results of this good. Using the game's rules to get good results is usually good.
I think the confusion is a mix of timing and the fact that 4e and WoW/Everquest share a common inspiration in CRPGs. I also think there was a effort to encapsulate and market aspects of 4e for an MMO player base even if those items weren't created to appeal to MMO players.
Caveat. OG DMG is the only one that actually talks about being a dungeonmaster for a traditional RPG in a fairly abstract, portable sense.
Eh, Mearls might be a good person but as far as a someone to work for/with, I've heard less than good things.
To get out of the dungeon alive, they had to figure out who would kill the others since one volunteered already to be "caretaker" of the place, essentially becoming an instrument of the malice dwelling in the haunted chateau. The other two fought to the death to determine who could leave.
My players are prone to doing morally questionable things anyway. But I might have to make more of an effort to add in some moral conundrums for my group that's more morally good. That group will usually only do bad things on accident.
Sorry, you were trying to talk about a worst moral choice here?
Is that really a moral dilemma? Sure, it’s unpleasant, but between the two, I’d take the Nazis over Nyarlathotep. Even JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure understood the correct answer to this question.
I think part of the rules* being weird at least, is that Starfinder is to Pozzo what Saga Edition is to WOTC. The science fantasy bastard child stuck in between two editions, to test the waters for a few of the new edition's changes. Less consideration for the sci-fi elements that wouldn't be ported over, or would see limited use.
It's always bad because it slows the game down, and the rules haven't changed since the last ten times he looked. I had to say over and over, "Your only bonus action spells are Healing Word and Spiritual Weapon. No, Sacred Flame is not a bonus action. No, you cannot shove as a bonus action. No, only the Rogue can disengage as a bonus action."
This particular team was pretty seriously morally compromised. The original core was Russian gangsters who had had to flee Russia because they'd sided with the White Russians, but were sincerely patriotic to their new homeland in the United States.
I couldn't have picked Communists because they'd never have gone along with that, world be damned.
That sounds incredibly irritating and I'd probably tell him to learn how to write shit down on a piece of paper after the second time it happened. I'm pretty forgiving to my players when it comes to the rules but wasting everyone's time is something that gets me on someone's case faster than anything. Unless your next turn is obvious than decide what you're doing when it's not your turn, it makes the game more interesting anyway because you're not just playing the game 1/4th of the time.
Okay that definitely sucks and I'd punish that guy. I'd consider him consulting the book as gay and unrealistic and that his character, instead of getting a bonus, instead just stood there like a retard the entire round and lost his actual action.
That's a really good way to put it. Like the way some people talk about it, it's the worst system ever and not worth anything. However, using it, I do not hate it. It's just very much in a weird spot. Now if I was looking for Hard Sci-Fi I would hate it, but I wanted a Science Fantasy feel, just not as fantasy as it went.
Sure. But there is a world of difference between looking up the Grapple rules and just randomly hunting through books, hoping to find a way to spend your unspent bonus action.
That is really frustrating. It's understandable for someone new to the game to take more time to finish their turn, especially if they're a spell caster. But eventually everyone should have a default action ready for their turn if they really don't know what to do.
