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That seems to be a common theme in people's requirements for 4e- mutually exclusive requirements. This of course emphasises how important a genuine modular design is, and why it's absence in 1.0 is so damming. Especially with so many people demanding things like 'allow me to build a monster...

The effects of attacks were standardised in 4e. I also question the claim that such effects were standardised in 3e, considering the number of effects, spells, exceptional and supernatural abilities, ect ect that monsters had. Your description of 4e is misleading because you're confusing...

This is not a fair description of 4e. In my experience 4e has characterful and consistant design of monsters, particularly types of monsters, who are distinctive in ways that are unmatched in previous editions. I compare this to the approach of previous editions, which rarely gave most...

I read GX.Sigma as suggesting a system where effects are noted and explained in the monster refrence space, but also standardized. That would be ideal, but there also needs to be fewer conditions, and a better way of managing them. However, that doesn't seem to be the direction 5e is heading...

Apart from the ones where they take it to conventions and playtest is beyond friends and family? Ahh so, the logic is that if the product doesn't look any good, it can't possible be an alpha build. Or, this is broadly the game as they envision it (less some text needing to be re-written and...

You're missing the point. The basic game needs to be built to take these modules and use them. You can't just pile rules on top of each other, the base game does need to support the other, modular content, if the developers are serious about making those modules, and various combinations of...

It is not possible to talk about 5e unless we can also talk about the previous games, games who's fans the developers have clearly stated they seek to include in it. It is vital to be able to contrast those systems, and their qualities, when the stated goal of the developers is to make a...

In other words, the foundation upon which the game is being built, and a clear doccument of their key prorities and intent. That's not true at all, in fact I'd say the opposite is true. Key to 4e's success as a design is it's basic core system. The lucid, clean, and balanced set of unified...

This is the foundation they are building from. They're not going to radically change their approach, and even if they do, the point they start from will seriously influence the design going forward, and maintain the serious flaws and areas of deliberate neglect the design clearly has. And the...

Actually it's not well-founded at all, don't be silly. Wrong. Flat out 100% wrong. It's absurd to act like they'd deliberatly alienate a bunch of people who would otherwise pay them a monthly subscription fee in exchange for leaving a bunch of data on their server. Your scenario is typical...

One thing to keep in mind is yeah, alliances are cool, but the pcs should have the option to do things their own way. If they want to roll into hell with every ally they ever made and pacify all these supernal jerks, then that's what should happen, even if it happens after a fair bit of 'enemy...

So, these angel-devils. They strike me as the perfect basis for a three way war in hell during epic tier. Even if the plan isn't successful, they could be brought fourth, possibly using souls stolen from other devils. Of course, they're unlikely to very obedient, even to Glasya's...

4e rules! Woo! My 4e campaign, which has been going since it came out, has just reached epic tier.

Apologies: I didn't realize i hadn't placed the last minion on this thread. Here it its, the Sinister Tracker: https://twitter.com/#!/catastrophegame/status/141876907917586434/photo/1

If things get bad, just let one of them sacrifice themselves by ramming the bbeg off the tower. They can death-plunge over the side in high style. Both of them will of course, fall into a bottomles pit, or vanish together due to a teleportation charm the bbeg uses.