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Could you breakdown the 240? (or the 120 you're repeating with action surge, whatever)

Without going into specifics of playtesting, I can anecdotally confirm that it's really quite possible to just outright kill people up through 3rd level without great difficulty. It is much more likely if you roll damage instead of taking the average. At 1st it's downright trivial, to the...

They did not balance damage accordingly to match that, so no. A basic conceit of the system is that hit points and damage scale more instead of attacks and defenses.

I like the flavor of it, but I really wish that it wasn't so much worse than just using a normal weapon. It's especially rough once you realize that folks will have +1 or even +2 soon enough, so it becomes 1d4 vs. 1d10+2 kinda thing. At the cost of a feat. It works best at low level, but scales...

I only wish the system were as balanced as you think it was :) Boy did I get to see some crazy variance in build and choice.

Toughness only matters when the 3 hp would make a difference in your condition. So, the logic actually still works. Personally, I think it's more that the feat should matter in most encounters, rather than each round.

Yep, this. I have to kinda continually play stupidly when DMing D&D to avoid killing people. I'd not mind if the system took care of that for me. It might also be odd for some people that their hit points double from playing a session of D&D. Odd in a breaks verisimilitude kinda way, since...

Yep. He's knocked unconscious, but doesn't die. He's alone. He's outnumbered. He's surprised. Now, reverse _all_ of those points and you'd get what I'm talking about :) It's also very different to be sneaking about on a space station where you're rescuing someone and are outnumbered by several...

It honestly depends a bit on what cautious really means here. It's one thing to be cautious about a sleeping ogre, for example. It's another thing if we're talking about, say, a single hobgoblin with a couple goblins. And yet, those handful of goblin types can kill a PC before their initiative...

Doesn't sound like 1st level? It's totally true that those of us "in the know" can consider that level a dead level, not useful for either people starting the game _or_ people experienced at it, but... that's such a weird design decision. Doesn't sound like heroic fantasy, or necessarily the...

Depending on the edition of D&D, the PCs would be afraid of a house cat :) And might die just from being near a Nazgul, nevermind actually struck by one. I think it's reasonable for 1st level PCs to fear goblins, especially goblin shamans, hobgoblins and bugbears, and to just abject run from...

I don't believe anyone has been tracking that closely for TTRPGs. Though, it is a fairly natural inference from any model where this is a totally plausible first session: 1) Spend a while making a character (modern game systems often take far too long to create a character) 2) Die before taking...

Still: that as you advance in level, facing greater and greater threats... that it gets _easier_ feels backwards. I'd not have minded if D&D made both a nod to escalating stakes _and_ attracting new players by patching the whole "wow first level sucks" phenomenon. So it goes, though. It's...

Feels like Acrobatics, Athletics, and Investigation are being underrated by several posters. Insight appears fairly overrated. Much like all of the "talky" skills, you really only need a couple people to handle it, and frankly I've found Insight incredibly unreliable. Maybe it's a DM problem...

Today I learned that Come and Get It could have been "fixed" by making it more complicated: Hit: The target chooses to either be pulled 2 squares and take 1W damage, or to be stunned until the end of their next turn and marked until the end of the encounter. That's kinda cool to know. Also...

I have to admit, all of the malice pointed out martial classes trying to do anything too "unrealistic" makes me realize, in hindsight, the genius of Earthdawn's "everyone is magic". Cause yeah, a warrior who calls up elemental forces to sheathe his skin in rock to shrug off blows, make...

Article on where the term fantasy heartbreaker came from here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/articles/9/

Why not? I'd expect a feint to work _even better_ on a mindless ooze. Not like it can tell you're bluffing, after all.

I'm just sad that they'll get such a drastic difference in playability of the system just from having that one class there or not. It's not exactly fun to have rounds of "Okay, who has to play the <insert unpopular class for this group>?"

A fighter often exerts as much control as any controller, until high levels :) Bash and Pummel is a good example of a strong and versatile martial control power that few should find "realism" problems with. It's also not weaker than most non-martial powers, which is often the route people take...