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Come and Get It is a good example of a power that would have gotten a tiny fraction of the ire it got if it had instead been on a magic using class instead. As a paladin power, for example. I don't think it was a good idea for it to be in the first PHB.

I'll definitely grant that LFR is very focused away from surge use, except in a couple places. The adventures just aren't long enough (and/or dangerous enough) for it to be an issue. That's not at all my experience outside of LFR, though; especially early on. One of my favorite moments from a...

Take 'em captive, they can meet the new player in the pens, make a daring escape from there.

If you're making Utility powers strictly non-combat, you can actually afford to give out more powers - ex: two per tier, instead, but have them eat up some of the options people used to use combat utilities for.

There are a _lot_ of things they could have done better about the launch of 4e. I can't comprehend some of the decisions, like making it impossible for 3rd party publishers, burning Paizo on supporting the edition _or even seeing it_. The fact that Paizo and WotC shared gaming groups, worked...

Instead of movies, which are a brief and flighty exercise in time, it seems to me that people treat their roleplaying games much more like their political parties - where only one can "win", and that one might eat up game time for months or years to come until it can be toppled by a rival. And...

Yeah, I thought about bringing it up too. I've seen a couple players who really stretch, either by trying to go "as a Gladiator, I've dealt with X before" where X is almost literally anything, or try to take 'Jack of All Trades" or "Lucky" as a background to more directly try for everything...

I'm reminded of one time in a point-buy system where three of us were making characters. Player A made their PC that dealt 15 damage and had DR 10. Player B made their PC that dealt 30 damage and had DR 20. Player C made their PC that dealt 40 damage and had DR 30. Well, we saw right away that...

Still DM 4E now and then, but it's a lot more spaced out, and usually for request of certain adventures. I'm pretty content with that. I doubt I'll really dig in and do any huge campaigns of it for quite some time: still recovering from the end of epic :) Doing a couple 13th Age games, and a...

Except against undead. Fighter loses there. You also seem to be undervaluing divine strike and sacred flame. And, again, it's worth note that this is without considering the cleric's entire pyramid of spellcasting (factor in a single combat spell per combat, say). I think the more telling...

I'd be very happy to see Bless switch to a bonus action to cast... if it also was made less effective to match. I'm not a fan of the current Bless: it's too effective. As a bonus action, you'd remove its balancing factor.

People keep mentioning the fighter as indispensable in 5E for combat, as if that somehow makes up for its dearth in the other tiers. Is he really? I mean, the old adage to just take another cleric still seems to apply. Fighters get more hp? Hah. Try a character with a whole pyramid of healing...

Indeed. The PCs that would use it explicitly are paladins and skalds. And I'm kinda okay with those examples. It would also reinforce Str/Con characters as hardier than mere dabblers like Int/Con wizards. Recovery dice, actually. So, more directly making up for the choice not to invest in Con...

Traditionally, AC has been very Dex-based, and now Wis can help... and Con. What does Con have to do with AC? :) Interesting point on the druid, yes - "This stat is worse, so have d10s instead of d6s".

Poor Charisma, no one ever loves you. I mean, they're supposed to; by definition, really, but maybe it's part of the geekzeist to deny it :) Given that hp "measure more than your physical capacity to suffer wounds; they also represent intangibles like your will to fight" and your ability to...

It was noticed that the Dex/Con characters were more effective. Not enough that it caused strife, but that it was casually observed by people without actually analyzing the math was telling. Having 30% more hp, +3 initiative, and +2 to AC and PD isn't trivial. But, yes, alot of it is a math...

I was recently noticing in game the stat imbalance between those who can be focused on Dex and Con, and those who cannot, and it's led to me pondering minor rule changes. Or at least discussing them, cause that's the fun part, and maybe something will get into a game some day, or not. Problem...

Hm, ok. Well, I'd not be surprised if I read the first few pages and the last several pages, so missed that part. I will concede that rogues in 3e could also end up hideously ineffective if the DM really liked crit immune stuff. Similar to being a lightning sorcerer who suddenly finds he's...

You can be just as boneheaded with a 3e rogue as a 4e rogue. Your 3e sorcerer example is perfectly decent, but your rogue one is flatly incorrect. That's why people keep pointing it out. If you make identical choices for the 3e rogue as the 4e rogue, both end up ineffective at combat and...

This isn't actually true, fwiw. The rogue is innately more useful outside of combat until you examine utility powers (and feats), at which point either has a chance to focus on combat or noncombat more. Both also have vast variance in how much they choose to focus on damage, so unless your...