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Sorry. Brainfart. I knew he was one of the big-wigs behind Third Edition, and in my head I user "3.5" as a shorthand for "3rd Edition" in general, even if there is a big distinction between third edition's two halves. Whoops. Of course, that's even slightly more incriminating since 3.5, for all...

Color me mildly dreadful. Besides the fact that 3.5 and all of its attendant problems were his baby, he also apparently thought punishing noobs was good game design. He phrases it as awarding system mastery, admits now it was a mistake, but it really is just noob punishment, and that strikes me...

Actually, some of the ammunition enchantments are pretty powerful, particularly the +xd6 elemental damage. Also, giving characters free access to whetstones is basically giving them a free damage boost, and access to frost and lightning elemental shenanagins without the opportunity cost of a...

To do so would murder my dreams of a min-maxed Pixie Ranger who flies up to enemies and turns them into red confetti with her pair of re-fitted pairing knives. All you hear is a faint buzzing noise, before the orc warlord explodes into gibblets.

A long-time industry vet who may or may not also have ulterior motives. Of course that could be paranoia talking. I mean , after all, no one in the industry has ever tried to, or had anything to gain off of trying to stab Wizards in the kidney when they thought they where down. Its not like...

Well... that's rather lame of you to do. Considering the ammount of feats one needs to invested to make this trick worthwhile and considering it can be replicated by taking an already great paragon path, it's hardly broken. There really is no reason to ban it outright. Furthermore, if we take...

Your confusing a mark for the things which trigger off of it. Certain marks have special properties or names, such as the divine challenge and aegis, but certain features, such as Combat Challenge, trigger off of an enemy being marked by you. Combat Challenge doesn't care how, when, why, or what...

I'd say as far as striker's go its decent. A pure Dex/Con Half-Elf Revenant in a party with a Morninglord can put out some serious punishment by exploiting radiant vulnerability, and you can easily generate a pretty consistent three attack nova sequence. Maybe not Avenger or Scout good...

I kind of figured the whole "different levels of complexity roughly balanced with one another to fit play style all adhering to the same basic idea of the DnD game" line was just Mearls justifying Essentials to us.

Rapid Combat Challenge. Look it up. Granted, after playing 2 adventures with this set up, I have had it come up all of zero times. Either monsters obey the mark, throw out rather annoying multi-target attack, or they toss me halfway across the battlefield and dominate me. Although, considering...

Which is why he should daze them on the hit. Or do 60 damage. Or slide them 7 and knock the prone, invalidating the attack altogether. Fighters can get on the game to, they just need to know how. ;)

Actually, this is somewhat misleading: The ideal situation is to have both a crippling punishment mechanic, and to be nigh invulnerable. That way any enemy that you mark loses either way. My hybrid paladin|fighter has lay one hands (house rule), high defenses except for his reflex, resistances...

... The Fighter has high defenses for his level, true, but he probably optimized the living hell out of them to get them there. Level+15 is about what you need to stay on par with monster attack vs AC, and Level+13 for nads, which means he's About 6 points over on AC, and 9 on some of his nads...

Maturity has nothing to do with it. Being tired does. Namely, sick and tired of you and those like you. Most of the others have gone away: you keep trying though. All you've done for a month now is either post trolling conspiracy threads, or make vague backhanded critiques that saying nothing...

Sit down with them and help them each make characters for the setting. Make it simple and try not to show off to many details. Then run them an intro adventure which will blow their socks off. Their on a lightning rail to Sharn when its high-jacked by Shifter Terrorists looking to pay the...

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Consider the themes in the DMG2: they more or less do the exact thing your looking for.

Fair enough, which is why, if you read my first post you noted I suggested that if we wanted to make more options viable MONSTER HP NEEDED TO DROP, THEN MULTI-ATTACKS NERFED. When I say not broken, I mean they aren't over powered within the context of the game. Which is what everyone else is...

Back before I basically mastered the monster creation rules inside and out, I used a few. Some of them work o.k., such as the Zealous Demagoug style one, or the Undead Master one. The problem with them is, save for a few, that they do very little to actually make the creature an elite. Very few...

Man, this would be a crippling rebuttle of my position if, you know, those weren't five round fights against equal level foes with absolutely no fights before or after, and dailies being burned in each fight. Let's try to keep experiments in context. Parties will nine times out of ten beat a...