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Sounds good. Mind you, one possible drawback is that you won't get many replies if your post is too reasonable and moderate :) As for me, I think I'm going to take a badly needed vacation from Enworld. I actually have my wife's hotmail address registered with this account, so I'm going to erase...

Interesting! I would say I strongly prefer Combat as War. However, if I look deep down inside, I think I really want Combat as Sport disguised as Combat as War. (and then it's a turn-off only when it leans too transparently towards CaS)

But potentially, a forum where people voluntarily design games can be fun, right? Why must there be a mandate to moderate with an iron fist? Shelly Mazzanoble's articles and the email transcripts from Worlds and Monsters hint that professional game design discussions can be fun and casual in...

Consider your idea stolen for my next campaign!

Oh, but in D&D, for me, they were sometimes enemies. Then in 4E, sometimes bitter awful enemies, totally dissonant -- sometimes the story was free as a bird to do what it wanted, and sometimes the story was like a slave bound in chains on its knees beholden to its Mechanical Master... Ahem...

Well I'll stop you right there because videogames as inspiration is contentious :) Back to the story inspiration, I think healing that triggers internal reserves is great for low fantasy that is trying to ground fantasy with some gritty realism, but in 4e, where you can knock a hydra prone...

Well, to each their own, but when I first read the deva fluff, I imagined it was a deva soul being reincarnated, and the body was merely a new shell. In that sense, a deva elf and deva dwarf makes just as much sense as the idea of karmic reincarnation and being reborn in any new body, male...

Sounds to me like a placebo effect of faith healing. I have never seen a fantasy movie or read a fantasy story or played a pre-4E game where it seemed that magical healing wasn't externally sourced, and since the soul of D&D is now officially the story, I see no great reason to suddenly change...

Excuse me. Excuse ME! 5E is going to be a modular game. QED I can order the ability scores in any way I like, and at the very same table, another player can have them in a completely different order! And if you can't handle that, you should get the Dictator Module which allows the DM to force...

Except that the polls here on Enworld suggest that a majority are feeling positive about the news AFAICT.

Comliness is not an Ability Score, it's a THEME!

I don't know... Enworld mods and other RPG forum mods have been slaying trolls, quenching inflammatory posts, and warding off editions wars for years, and they're (mostly) normal. I have shifted in one respect. I think I understand better that GNS deems to describe 3 poles of roleplaying...

A kender Fighting Man and a shardmind Magic-User walk into a bar...

@pemerton , no worries, I didn't think you were, I was just self monitoring myself I read about the brain damage here Comments on the GNS Model I've only skimread these, so I can't vouch for it, but FYI from the same author whoever he is: Whitehall ParaIndustries: Flaws of GNS- Part I: The...

Combat is incredibly complicated, average combat length spans 2 game sessions, everyone does exactly the same thing over and over, and everyone dies at the end.

You mean, 2 games, like one called "Legend" and another called "Lore"? :) (I know it's not what you meant, but I couldn't help it)

On a slightly different note, why not start at level 2? If you're multiclassing, you get 1 level of each. Otherwise, you take 2 levels of the same class. (Why? Only because it bothers me that Bob spent 10 years learning how to swing a sword, then he goes on an adventure and learns to read a...

For me, the ability score -- for better or worse -- is the core/base reference point and everything (story, cognition/immersion, mechanics) stems out from that. I'd rather have Str mapped somewhat to size and let the peripheral mechanics unfold organically from that.

I don't want to engage in 'character assassination' so I was hoping that the quote would speak for itself. To put it generally, I think that communication (combined with others like the 'brain damage') is wrong-headed for several reasons, the most relevant one to this discussion being that...

Why? Some themes might be better with some classes than others. The DDXP seminar did suggest "knight" after all. No, I mean the knight theme might (just speculating) could include free armor and weapons but not the ability to use it (that's class specific), and the wizard can't actually use...