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And how shields work. And advantage. And… It’s just too much for me. But, admittedly, that was before all the supplements fixed the core. At least Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG has the Reference Booklet and Purple Sorcerer.

Exactly. It’s a thematically pitch perfect D&D setting for modern times.

Yeah. I had to make my own huge cheat sheets with rules explanations, digging through the rules to find things, and constantly added to the files. It was a huge pain in the ass.

I am more a fan of WFRP 2E. The 4E stuff is gorgeous, but the mechanics needed a few more passes. It’s just too much for me to run without a computer doing most of the work. To me, that’s a really bad sign. Glad you’re digging it though. The Old World is one of my favorite fantasy settings.

Millennials are about 28 to 43 or so, right?

Sure we have. It’s in the PHB. The noble background, just change the name. Peasant mind control and all that.

Every culture throughout history thought they'd figured out what "human nature" was and it always, magically, conforms to what that society thinks is best and right. Modern people raised in capitalist societies think human nature is greedy and destructive. They're no more right than any other...

The stuff I'm talking about is the Jedi Academy stuff and the Thrawn books, plus a few others. I haven't read much Star Wars fiction since then.

Yep. It all comes down to what you want out of the game. If you want something that cleaves closer to Appendix N and Jack Vance, that's your wizard. If you want something more freewheeling and pew pew, it sounds like a nightmare.

The novels released after the original Star Wars trilogy were far better than anything put out since, whether films, TV shows, or novels.

If only there was a history book you could read that went into depth about the subject you're talking about. Hmm...

Sure. But this is about what the OP is looking for. If that's his stated goal, then...

There's nothing stopping you from running 5E fights in a more cinematic 4E style. All the advice about interesting terrain, environmental effects, secondary objectives, etc all still apply to 5E. And it doesn't take that much work to do at all. Simple version is take good 4E encounters and use...

That right there. "I have this epic story I want to tell the players but three sessions in they don't care and aren't engaged." Because they're either bored by the system, bored by the story, or both. If they don't get to make actually meaningful choices that actually affect the world and...