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Smaug I put down to an old houserule: the 20-20-kill. Roll a 20, confirm on a 20, dead. No quesitons asked. In 4E, the rules don't allow for that sort of thing, but Bard's "black arrow" was a legendary thing. I'd go so far as to say that (in 4E terms) it was some sort of slaying arrow that...

The phial of Galadriel was, well... a phial, obviously, but it was filled with well water that had captured the light of Earendil. Earendil was the 1st Age hero born of all the major bloodlines: Maia, Noldo, Sinda and Adan. He was able to get the Valar to come over to Middle-earth and crush...

Derogatory term for angel? - Devil in disguise - God-slave ...that's all I've got. Still need coffee.

I think the key successes of the 4E design philosophy are: - Streamlined monster design. - Treasure parcels. - Simplified encounter design. - Traps as "monsters". - Non-combat challenges as "monsters". - Daily/Encounter/At-will "spells" (though the martial dailies will always stick in my craw)...

No offense, OP, but I think you overreacted to a sensible response. Like one of the earlier posters said, you asked for intellectual property, WotC said no; you then asked for a reason, they said they couldn't give you one (the CSR isn't a lawyer). That's a sensible exchange. Where it loses...

This thread is full of win.

Well put.

Hey there, UK. How are ya? Well, I have a much more colorful analogy on the difference between the two editions, but I wouldn't want to offend any younger ears. :) That being said, the "swingy" in 3E was the main root of all its problems. It was loose, it had loopholes big enough to park a bus...

I've found 4E to be far more... predictable than earlier editions, while earlier editions (namely 3.5) had less stability but much more swing. That being said, 4E Essentials looks to be just the tonic I need to really get back to D&D again: more class diversity is a big draw for me, and the...

Jeez-louise.... Fax me your notes and I'll have them typed in an hour or two. On top of that, I can build you a machine in Excel that will build monsters for you using your own rules, and a mail-merge file that will format everything in a processor cycle. I did it for v.5; I can do it for 4e.

I feel the urge to give Krust a kick here and there. He should know I mean him no harm. :) As an aside, though, what kind of notes are you talking about here? How can you create so many notes and so little (pardon me) substance? I'd think at this sort of ratio, you'd just try to publish the notes!

Are you seriously still not done? :yawn:

Yes! You, sir, are the man. [ETERNAL GRATITUDE]

...and no, I can't search, so I'm throwing the dice and seeing if someone out there can bounce a link back at me. There was a thread I visited late last week, and I can't remember if it was through a link on another thread or what, but it talked in detail about how (N)PCs and levels were...

I just want it to make sense. I'm not "blinded", though I appreciate your attempt to overload the situation with emotional words. Birds fly. Fish breathe water. Any reason to inhibit those facts isn't about making the game fun or having it make sense, it's about making the game easy for all...

I can't understand this logic. If I can "become a bird"... my knowledge of bipedal mobility takes a backseat to the fact that I can BECOME A BIRD! Flight is wrapped up in that the same way swimming is wrapped up in being an otter. If you don't agree with that, I don't really know if I can keep...

First off, it's "bollocks". Secondly, I've been playing D&D since 2e. 4e is the most-hamstrung of all the editions while at the same time being the most balanced, ostensibly. Bottom line though, "sir", is that you have drunk the Kool-Aid and can't see the forest for the trees. A...

Well, essentially the complaint is that you can take the shape of a bird but can't fly for mechanical reasons, not RP reasons. The RP side of things is essentially polluted by mechanical inhibitors put in place for the ease of governing how PCs operate in-game. It's like giving a kid a bike...

I think it's infinitely lameballs to say you can take the shape of a bird but can't fly. Sure, 4e has done a lot to address power bloat issues from PC class combos, but this sort of thing is a smack in the face. RP is not about taking feats, guys. RP is RP. Taking feats is purely mechanical...

Still nothing? Editions may change, but the UK pace remains the same. :p