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With the d6 damage die, I think it's actually very comparable to Grasping Claws now, but that's just my gut talking. Grappling Strike is reminding me that I need to play a Brawler Fighter at some point.

I'm not an expert on balance, but Empty Palm seems a bit on the strong side. Just on its own merits, it's nearly auto-pick, IMO, without getting into the fact that it's an MBA, which effectively saves you a feat if you want to have a decent OA. At will immobilize that can be used as an MBA...

If your main concern is unarmed monks, I'm not sure the theme is necessary to address the problem. Unarmed worked fine for me until I discovered the extensive feat support encouraging you to put weapons in your hands. If staying unarmed had comparable feat support the problem might be solved...

That sort of behavior is already well-supported. With my very control-oriented power selection, my Centered Breath monk does that schtick very well. Funnels enemies toward the defender or into happy burst-able arrangements for the controller. He just does it better and over a larger space if...

Since he's the only one I hate and the only one with those kind of items, I'm prepared to call him an outlier. Leiber and Howard and their imitators (a) are far more common; and (b) have retained far more popularity. People who didn't play 1e have actually read them and enjoyed it. It's not...

I'm really not a fan of Moorcock, so I didn't think about him. But on reflection I'd have to say that Moorcock is largely outside my personal preferences or even my personal definition of Sword and Sorcery. I'm more inclined towards "Swords Against Wizardry" (as a concept as well as a title)...

I think we're well into mutually exclusive definitions here. i.e. "You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means." (No offense intended, just that we're defining things differently). D&D has always been (at least since 2e) packed to the gills with mythic fantasy...

Have you met the internet? There are entire nations of people whose existence is devoted almost entirely to bitching about that single Legolas scene. They are more vocal, but less common than the "LOL Shield Sk8ter" faction. I maintain that these people are genetically incapable of relaxing...

Only true if you could have reasonably shopped at a game store. I've got a couple local options, but I've lived places where the nearest game store is a 5 hour drive.

I am of two minds about this. On one hand, one-trick ponies make me sad. On the other hand, myth and legend are FULL of them. I'm a mythic wrestler dealing with an archer on top of a hill? I grab hold of the hill and shake that archer off of it. I make the situation suit my strengths rather...

This is where we have such a disconnect. Everything is binary with you. Either we're helping the store OR we're paying WotC. There is no allowance in your philosophy for the fact that both are occurring. Sure. But without the big name product association, all the advertising WotC is doing...

Fine. It's a very small difference that depends more on the margin on the cards than anything else.

P1NBACK, I've probably played with more than my fair share of truly terrible DMs. But I still recognize that having an empowered DM beats the snot out of most alternatives.

True enough, but how much of their revenue stream is currently coming from DDI subs? Maybe they could consider somebody part time? ;) Heck, I could build a database in an off-the-shelf database program that would have fewer hiccups and would be pretty modular, and I'm not an IT guy, but a...

I'd give you xp thrice, but I can't even give any to you once yet.

That's a purely semantic difference that you're fluffing up into some sort of moral boundary.

Bingo. No one is saying that going to a con should be free, and charging for the opportunity to check out new product makes cons evil/uninviting/etc. What's a con but a FLGS game day writ VERY large?

QFE. I have found this to be the case more often than not in most game systems with most "realism" house rules. Making something more "realistic" for one person at the table often has the effect of making it less "realistic" for at least one other. Given this, I humbly suggest that in most...

If you are comfortable with having other people foot the bill for an entertainment you are also enjoying, that's your call. In my experience, the service staff gets to know people who do things like that. So it's your call, your karma, and your "water." EDIT: Scribble already addressed your...

You don't think adding those satellite packages to their costs increased the price of food and drink? Trust me, you're paying for it.