Recent content by Nyronus

As is Next looks like a fairly good game. Simple, straightforward. Somewhat iffy on a few points, but its still in beta, so there is always hope for a more polished final product. Its not something I can dislike on objective merit alone. This I won't deny. That said... I see little hope of...

Favorite of all time? The one I've been writing for months that combines the 5e flat math, 4e Heroic tone and rules concepts, 3e tactical minutia and simulation, and older edition hard metaphysics surrounding my own lore. :) As for published... eh. I've played 2e, 3.5, and 4e, and, with the...

Well, from what I've read, the word of Lolth is law to the Drow. Of course, "laws" to the Drow are more like guidelines than actual rules. Despite having codes handed down by Lolth the drow do their best to cheat them and bend them, and get around them. Which is exactly what Lolth wants. The...

Ohhh yes. Particularly since I'm moving away from the college town I was living in. Half my gaming group lives 1 to 2 hours away by car and I'm not going to ask anyone to shell out 20 bucks to play a version of DnD we're not sure on. I can perhaps wrangle a playtest group out of the friends who...

More than two player content articles in dragon magazine?! This is an event unheard of since the time of myth and legend! Quickly! Sound the horn of Thorlm Grimhammer! Let the Knights of Radgoth ride once again! Too long have we waited in shadow, paying six to ten dollars a month for two...

What about the Demonomicon? Edit: Ah, I see, it's still for sale. What condition is it in?

Not only the second wind, but also things like the fighter's self healing and the warlord being about to restore HP via inspiration. The healing surge is also a useful mechanic for representing vitality as well, and I also like the connection between magical healing and personal vitality. That...

I agree with a lot of the things in this thread, but just to throw my hat in behind an underdog: healing surges. Not necessarily them or their terminology baggage, but what they represent: a reserve a heroic toughness and willpower which allowed the PCs to carry on fighting. The hero getting up...

Its been an while, and you're actually lucky I managed to find it. The article is not as terrible as I remember, but it still has serious issues. It uses a very narrow and arbitrary issue (Should we give character mechanical incentive to play stereotypical characters?) as staging ground to...

Except then it was that Pathfinder sales were MATCHING 4e sales, not bypassing them by a large margin which was what was stated by someone in this thread, and even then it was based purely on the early stages of Pathfinder (i.e. the Core Rulebook) vs. 4e as it was slowing down, and was STILL...

I honestly find the whole "Pathfinder is outselling 4e" to be more thna a little flawed. Besides the good points about DDi being ignored in the PF vs. 4E sales debate, the claim that Pathfinder is selling better and therefore is better also ignores that 4E books are in a deliberate tail-spin...

You can't say for certain the poster was motivated by contempt. Tone is kind of lost in text. The phrase "good riddance" could be said with an agry spit at the ground, or with an apathetic eye roll or a shrug. Even assuming though it was said with contempt: Contempt of what? As I mentioned, I...

Except that in that sentence he was talking about Designers, which Mike Mearls is not from what I recall. Mike works in Design, but as a head of the department, not as part of the team, which I believe is what Monte is specifically talking about here. Honestly its best just to give Monte and...

I wonder if all of the Pro-Monte people here have enough of a sense of irony to look at the thread and notice for all of the evil and hateful "4venger" posts they have complained about, there are a lot of posts assuming instantly that WotC was somehow the villain in the scenario. I'm also a...

Let my just throw my hat in on the side of Jargon. Consistent game terminology makes for a consistent game. Well constructed terminology means a well constructed game. 4e, in my opinion, got it pretty good. As much as people whine about "game-y"ness, 4e's language seemed fairly intuitive to me...