Paladin Class Through The Ages part eight: D&D Essentials
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I came across these two in an op shop the other day and i didnt quite have enough for both. Kicking myself, i didn't get one and ask them to hold the other. Cool little books, its a real shame the essentials line didnt last long, they could have expanded into some really neat stuff. Keep up the awesome work dude, I love your 4e content so much!
Essentials was expanded with the "Heroes of" books, especially Heroes of Shadow and Heroes of the Feywild.
I do wish Wizards would have released some of the announced books like the Nerath setting. I always liked the world created for 4th Edition, hopefully Wizards revisit that world at some point.
As a HUGE 4e fan, I actually find the "base" paladin to be superior.
Nothing wrong with that!
I agree with you that essentials paladin was better than the standard 4e one, but... It was still a 4e class, with that silly daily/encounter limit to its best and more defining powers.
No theme, no matter how good, could make up for that stupid concept, unfortunately.
That's why I veered towards Pathfinder at the time. It had both some interesting themes and actually believable rules.
Both systems have their benefits and drawbacks. I enjoyed the 4E approach to classes, though freely admit the Essentials versions were more thematically interesting.
@@DravenSwiftbow I unfortunately found very little of interest in most concepts for classes in basic 4e. The only cool concept in my opinion was the monk as a psionic class. That and the virtuous paladin from the essentials were a couple concepts I was tinkering with in 3.5 five years before, for my own personal campaigns, so I was glad to see them adopted officially.
But I really couldn't cope with the power mechanics, the healing surges, the bone stripped skill list, the monsters managed as Diablo mobs and a ton of other weird rules in that system.
In retrospect, 4e wasn't completely terrible. Still feels to mmo gamey to me. The healing surges, the daylies, combat, & whenever was oddly designed for tabletop. I never liked it.
I think it's more in the terminology than anything else. 5E has Encounter and Daily abilities too, they just don't call them that.
@DravenSwiftbow 5e is only a little better than 4e, not a high bar.
@@DravenSwiftbow Think of 5e as a 4e without powers. The basic concepts for the races, classes, monsters and magic items are still basically the same, with some little improvements here and there.