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Old 11-17-2008, 03:04 AM
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Re: [RPG]: Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Dungeon Master's Guide, reviewed by James G

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Originally Posted by ghost-angel View Post
Yes you CAN Roleplay with 4E very easily, because it does nothing to stop you. But it does nothing to encourage you either, doubly so when it attempts to breakdown the "adventure structure" into a series of encounters instead of a storyboard.
I'm not exactlty a DD fan but I can't default the PHB and DMG for this. The DD line as a clear structure (I jost hope all rpgs had a similarly clear structure) and in that structure things are handled in different parts of the whole DD set. In DD the 'storyboards' are sold to you in the scenarios and campaign materials, it's as simple as that. One may not like the type of 'storyboards' DD focus on; one may not like to be sold 'storyboards' this way; one may not like the fact that DD does not teach you how to develop a 'storyboard', it only teaches you how to design encounters to be inserted into a 'storyboard'; one may not like any or all of this but one can't truly say that DD lacks 'storybaords'.

If your concept of rpg requires 'storyboards', DD provides them and it works with them. As simple as that.
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