Recent content by Porphyrogenitus

This thread caused me to pick up the 4E PHB and I need to say you're right (I said you had it inverted). Me, and I'm guessing a bunch of people who are thinking their spellcaster can't do what they did before, need to check out Rituals more. There's only a sampling in the book, but I'm...

People forget their own real-life experience: Even smart people can do stupid things. Not even infrequently. I'm not bragging when I say that I rate as very smart on tests, 'cause I've done *sooooo* many boneheaded things it's unreal. And one of the smartest people (by test score) I had the...

I like this point from another thread, btw: I've been one of the critics of that tendency in every edition, myself - naturally the spell list grows over time and ultimately wizards (and to a lesser included degree, Clerics) outstrip other classes in powerful options. So looking at my above post...

Despite my "Great Wall of Text" I prolly failed to accurately describe - possibly because of the "Great Wall of Text" was more confusing than descriptive. Not that you're off-base, but prolly inverted. That would be good if the sole purpose was combat/melee. But in the larger sense she's not...

Decloaking to Ramble On - THE GREAT WALL OF TEXTICUS Ok, this thread made me register & decloak, 'cause I'm pondering (taking over the world?) whether 4E is for me or not. Here's my essential character concept: Among the greatest arcane spellcasters of her era, with a versatile spell...