Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition

2008

Role-Playing

The 4th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop roleplaying game overhauled the game's systems. Changes in spells and other per-encounter resourcing give all classes a similar number of at-will, per-encounter and per-day powers. Powers have a range of effects including inflicting status effects, creating zones, and forced movement, making combat very tactical for all classes but essentially requiring use of miniatures, reinforced by the use of squares to express distances. (wikipedia.org)

Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition

2008

Role-Playing

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Ratings & Reviews Info Collections Similar Stats Trailer

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Xenophule

15 Apr 2018

This edition gets a lot of hate, but it may be my favorite. Forgive me for using this word, but it focuses more on the synergy of the group. Every attack can help a teammate and it just feels better as opposed to just being your own character with these other guys who are around.

15 Apr 2018

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law

31 Jan 2018

This is the edition in which they decided that a tabletop roleplaying game should play like a hack-'n'-slash videogame. This is how they lost my interest.

31 Jan 2018

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Geniasis

07 May 2024

4th Edition represents the total rationalization of fantasy. The Dungeon becomes a factory floor; the imagination is subjected to the tyranny of the tactical Grid. Through the standardization of "Powers," the specific is flattened into the universal logic of exchange value. Party roles mirror the corporate division of labor, transforming play into instrumental work. It offers a dark integrity: a fantasy exactly as calculated and spiritually hollow as the society that produced it. - Full Review

07 May 2024

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nilkynarfy

31 Dec 2020

Easy to read equals easy to learn. This one is much more complex than 5e, yet it can be learned without someone having to teach you. Plus, the classes were balanced nicely (the asymmetry was in roles, not in usefulness). Yes, it borrowed a lot from video games. Seeing as how video games borrowed from D&D since forever, how is this a bad thing? You can do all the same stuff here that you can in other D&Ds, but this time they tell you the actual difference between a fighter and a wizard.

31 Dec 2020

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Prophet92

06 Mar 2018

Not nearly as bad as the haters make it out to be, I genuinely think this is a better introduction for new players than the overly complex Pathfinder but there's really no reason to play it now that we have 5th edition.

06 Mar 2018

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Jimmy Suede