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Hey! :rant: You guys just hurt my feelings! :lol:

Obviously, my previous post paints the anti-essentials posters with a wide brush. Partially, that is for humor's sake, and I therefore appeneded an "IMHO." (Because internet abbreviations clearly matter :confused:). So, to be clear: it is entirely possible to be anti-Essentials and not be...

I think the fact that Gabe is a fan or 4e is part of why he likes Essentials. In my experience, a very high percentage of the anti-Essentials crowd are the same anti-4e-in-general types who were also up in arms about MM3 fire resistances, scaling skill bonuses, every errata release, katanas not...

OK, now I'm about 95% sure you are joking. Since it seems that all of the martial classes in Essentials will be Basic Attack based (not that we know for sure), it'd be hilarious to see a basic-attack-only controller. ... [Also, for the record, TikkchikFenTikktikk correctly quoted me in his...

Yer kidding, right? Right? This is one of those issues that gets brought up over and over and over again (like katanas vs. longswords). What new is there to say? Here's the entire martial controller conversation: Proponent: There should be a martial controller. It could be a...

I played in a party of five (the monk went unplayed). I was the ardent. I had a very good time overall. The tembo was indeed darned hard. We used all our healing, both the healing fruits, and still barely won the fight, with me and the seeker unconscious and bleeding out (though several...

Is this serious? So, you emailed Customer Service, and asked them if you could re-publish WotC Intellectual Property online. Customer Service responded that you cannot. Then you asked them for a legal explanation, and they responded that they aren't lawyers, they're just doing what the...

Burns was incredibly helpful for me (depression and anxiety issues). I would also suggest "Recovery Inc." which is a self-help group (kinda like Alcoholics Anonymous) for people with anxiety and depression. You can look it up on the web and find lots of meetings all over the place. Both Burns...

According to their racial entry from PHB: "Their [tieflings] bloodline is tainted by their diabolical connections, passing to their descendants through all generations. In many ways, they are human; they can have children with humans, for example, but their offspring are always tieflings."...

4.5? Essentials? What? I'm totally unfamiliar with these terms. Could someone explain to me what this is about? Bonus points for explaining it in the form of a threadwar. :devil: ;)

Thanks for the info and reply! I'd give you xp, but I already did and the system won't let me do it again. :p

Monk may actually be the best best if you want minion-killing and multi-attacking. Psionic Power even includes a new build based around using weapons (including the dagger). However, with monk, your ranged options will be a little weak (well, they'll be fine, but mostly RBA's using your Dex)...

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Hey, I agree with your observations. Last summer, I played a game of Mutants and Masterminds, which is a d20 system game (I believe it was the 2nd edition of that game). The flavor and stuff was spot-on, and I had a good time, but mechanically, it was pretty annoying. In particular, stuns are...

Yeah, one of the (unintended?) features of 4e is that "until the end of X's next turn" is often better than "[save ends]." One reason is that you can usually only grant extra saving throws against conditions with a [save ends]. Also, when fighting solos and elites with saving throw bonuses...

I'm curious what role Splug is playing in your campaign? Is he still a DM-controlled source of amusement, or is a PC playing him, or is a competent companion character using DMG2 rules, or what? Has he been hanging around with this campaign since H1? That'd be awesome! I'm asking because I'm...

It seems odd to me that a feat which boosts Will defense requires a high Wisdom or Charisma scores. Sure, it makes simulationist logic, but I'd think the feat would be most useful to PCs who are in a class/build that has a weak Will defense because it relies on neither Wisdom or Charisma. Then...

Well, in 4e, no monsters have class levels, since only PCs get those now, so that shouldn't be a problem. Each MM is an improvement on the earlier one, since each uses better monstercraft. MM1 minions are too weak, solos and too slow and grindy, and monster in general don't do enough damage...

Perhaps we should wait to see it before guessing how difficult it would be to use? I mean, there is so much overheated speculation on the boards about it, but we've seen, what, 5% of the material? 2%?

Pretty much what Aulirophile said. I've been playing a Preserving Invoker in a campaign for over a year now, and the DM said I can make the shift before resolving the attack, and we've left it at that.