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Seriously, snoweel, get with the program! Wrymshadows made the thread, so if you disagree with him and he spends like half a page refuting you, the right thing to do is obviously say "I'm sorry you're right" and do a little bow, not to be mean and respond, just 'cause he responded to you in...

Honestly, I think any combination of the various ways of houseruling multiclassing in this thread are all worth trying. I think the default rules are intended to keep your second class as a side focus, but if your home table wants something a bit more mixed, it should work out fine. Good stuff!

Yeah, I agree; people have the right to dislike an entire game line because of a couple of throwaway lines of flavor text, but I also have the right to snicker at them for being so picky. :)

Wow, it almost sounds like different people seem to have different things they want and expect out of roleplaying games. :)

Seems like if everybody at the table goes "Ugh, no Star Trek alien lookin races" and the group wants to dump dragonborn or tieflings, that isn't that hard a change to make, though.

I dig worldbuilding, but these days I mostly wait on developing the details until I've got players lined up and they have at least a general idea of what characters they want to play. I figure time's short and unless a part of the setting is going to have an interesting interaction with...

All I know is that sometimes reading high-level NPC statblocks in older versions gave me a headache, and forget about making one myself, so I'm happy with how 4e does it. I'm sure lots of people really enjoyed doing full character generation for NPCs -- I used to do it all the time when I was a...

Looking good! Remember the table on pg. 42 of the DMG, it gives some nice guidelines for improvisational moves if you're ever looking for "default" values for making this stuff up. (Since that page is literally The Answer to Everything, I think they put it on that page # on purpose.)

Yeah, I'm not sure this is even necessarily a problem. If there's plenty of time to rest, no pressure to continue the investigation right away, then they'll have access to their full power level for each encounter. I can think of a half-dozen ways off the top of my head to apply time pressure...

Give it up Hong, you're beaten! 4e cannot accurately portray Steven Segal movies (only with him swinging a 20 foot long chain with spikes on it) and therefore it FAILS! hahahaha.... Seriously, though, this: is win. If somebody wants to play Knock Down Somebody Every Turn guy, and that's...

Some people like envisioning daily martial powers as representing a chance opening or particularly advantageous moment to strike. It's not like a fighter is going "Okay, time to use my Daily, step chop swing step" -- he's fighting hard, like he's fighting hard the whole fight, but this...

I don't even see how the (misunderstood) quote is even a decently formulated argument, since earlier versions had spellcasters. I guess the argument is "well, you leveled up to the point where you were Special, so you earned it", or something. Maybe the OP could clarify which personal...

Eh, I figure if it really bothers you, house rule it. Making Command not work on immobilized enemies isn't really going to come up that often (it just means they'll use the power on someone else, or use a different power), so it's not going to be a balance issue either way. I don't think it...

The basic approach Gumshoe seems to take is "If not finding something would stop the investigation cold, then the PC's find it." I think that fits pretty well with 4e, and it's what I did when I was running D20 modern. Basically, failed investigation rolls aren't about whether or not you can...

One way to look at it is something that some games label the "Free and clear phase", which is that time that you're all sort of kibitzing over what might happen next but it's not decided yet. (That phase doesn't formally exist in a lot of game rules, but regardless, it happens, even if it's only...

I think a lot of it comes down to whether you want a RPG to just "fill in the blanks for you" between roleplaying scenes, or if you want the game to come into play during roleplaying scenes. It's not like excluding mechanics *guarantees* good roleplaying, right? It's certainly possible to have...

Heck, he could have said "I kick him in the groin, then scramble away while he's recovering. (Nimble Strike with longbow, the kicking as just flavor.)" If it's the same darn effect and it looks cool, I'm down with it. :) If your group thought the description of the move was over the top and...

If you'd rather use flavor that indicates the Warlord is setting up opportunities that the Fighter can take advantage of, that works as well (or better) than the "I shout, you attack" way of describing it. I guess if you had a group where one guy was like "Hey, I set this guy up for you to get...

I was thinking that the adventurers who travel the Astral Sea might have a map called "The Great Wheel". I'm thinking of it as kind of like the map in Time Bandits -- it doesn't actually represent the places you're going in a 2-d space, it's more conceptual, and so it's not straightforward to...

I don't think arguing about what "roleplaying" really means and whether or not somebody is doing it right is a totally fruitless discussion. Now talking about how rules-mediated versus non rules-mediated situations are different in terms of how you roleplaying, there's some good discussion to...