[HDimagination]

A couple of points:

How do new roleplayers learn to role-play if the book doesn’t teach them? The same way most of us did, by playing. I started out with the basic 2E PHB, and I Managed to learn to Role Play just fine. Sure, my first few experiences were pretty much dungeon crawls, but after that we grew into it. I don’t think that it is something that needs to be or can be taught by a particular game. At any rate, I don’t think that’s why we picked up D&D when we were 13, we wanted to fight monsters and rescue princesses. Role-playing is not that strange a skill to have, after all we all did it in the playgrounds growing up.

On another note, and It’s one I’m going to repeat until some-one can give me a decent response: Do we really need more reviews of 4E? As far as I can see this particular review doesn’t bring up any points that have not already been stated in other reviews of the same product.

Am I alone in thinking that it’s not enough to write a review that you just ‘have an opinion’ but that you must have something new and original to say?

And I really do want some-one to try to give me a well reasoned out answer to this. Convince me that all this debating on the internet between people who have already made up their minds actually serves some worthwhile purpose…