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  1. Alnag

    Balance vs. Diversity

    First let me tell you this - despite the following I still like 4e. But it is not an uncritical admiration. I have my objections. Here is one... Recent information seems to tell me this. Designers strive to create balance. Every and each class, race or whatever has something to do, it is good...
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    Camping: It does a body good!

    a) The injury was just a bad dream... you have those every day. b) Fairy-tale. Once Winnie-the-Pooh wakes up he and his friends are allright. c) Sitcom... (see above Fairy-tale) d) The heroes just cure quickly. Blows and punches in 5 minutes. Broken or missing limbs - 6 hours. Wellcome to...
  3. Alnag

    Are stat modifiers really bonus + 1/2 per level?

    Ability check will be no more. Or at least not in the form we remember. The ability score will suffice for that... somehow. Either as a form of DC of an ("Saving Throw") or number of rounds or whatever... or just comparing the ability to do something. Or using the score as a bonus (as with 1st...
  4. Alnag

    D&D 4E Non-Euclidean Geometry in 4E?

    I am strongly for 1 square is 1 square rule. Geometry might be nice, but this is game, not a school class. I prefer simplicity more than reality. Thank you WotC don't change anything.
  5. Alnag

    Core Rulebook Gift Set Discounted on Amazon!

    Pre-ordered and looking forward to shipment. :p
  6. Alnag

    WOTC, release H1 as pdf!

    I agree. I will be lucky to get the book about 3 weeks after the release (if not worse). PDF would help.
  7. Alnag

    Confused about NPC/Monster generation

    I don't know anything about 4e generating monsters or NPC. But one thing strike me, when I read the first post. Why does it matter if the AC or any other stat is correct in the relation of what equipment or feats or any other thing the monster/NPC has. The important thing here is, that the NPC...
  8. Alnag

    Opinion: But It's So Gamist!!

    No matter how many times was GNS proved wrong, it will still be quoted over and over and over. D&D is so exceptional, that an effort to artifitially push it into some pigeon-holes is futile effort not worth time or brain-activity.
  9. Alnag

    The Death of Simulation

    Oh good lord. It was only a matter of time, till the Forge poison will spill here as well. I use terms simulationism, gamism and dramatism in a way they were originally meant, not in that twisted "newspeak" meaning created for the cause of diverting discussions. For that look here rather than...
  10. Alnag

    The Death of Simulation

    D&D is pretty simulationist game and it always was. It is a simulation of specific genre indeed. Not real world physics. It simulates sword & sorcery fantasy. Heroic one. It do a great job. It works. And I see no big change in this paradigm... D&D has a great element of gamism. Indeed. It has...
  11. Alnag

    WOTC! Give us an update!

    On the other hand, they will be shipping stuff to the printers for additional 4e splatbooks and such every month. And yet, they will have to publish something online if they seriously want to make D&D Insider thing running. So if there are not enough stuff members now, will there be enough of...
  12. Alnag

    D&D 4E WotC announces plans for 4e SRD and OGL

    So they actually confirmed plans for D20 Modern 4e, right?
  13. Alnag

    D&D Resolutions

    Acutally I want to play a character at least once, 'cause I am DM all the time. :(
  14. Alnag

    D&D 4E 4e previews due in December

    Pity. All of those topics sounds so promising... :\
  15. Alnag

    D&D 4E Does the 4E Magic Item Compendium mean there will be no items in the 4E DMG?

    Actually, there will be magic items in DMG (or PHB). Want to know why? Because if there were none, magic items wouldn't be part of the core experience (you can call the books core whatever you want, but the three are cores are clear). And if players would game without magic items the other...
  16. Alnag

    If WOTC gave us a preview from MM1...?

    One word. Gnome. ;)
  17. Alnag

    DMG news from Rich Baker blog

    Adventure and setting in DMG. Well done! Newbies need it. Hope it will be a good one... so they learn the game the proper way.
  18. Alnag

    D&D 4E Looks like the 4E DM Screen is pushed to August

    Well... Star Wars Saga Edition book come out this summer. Screen is comming next summer or so... 2 months is very soon, I guess.
  19. Alnag

    Paying for previews... sigh

    Actually, I find this marketing strategy to be very... well productive. First there will always be someone who will buy those books, right. They will get their chance to shine, when they share with the community. So the information will go online anyway. The people are not in connection with...
  20. Alnag

    What are you going to do with all your 3.x stuff?

    I've sold DMG and MM already. I will left PHB as a remembrance. I will left DMG 2 because I really like Robin Law's stuff and beucause it is timeless (or editionless). I will left Forgotten Realms CS, because it is nice setting and good book. I will keep Draconomicon, because I like dragons. I...
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