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Is that really a good target date for a serious project? :p

But then the different justifications for healing won't always work, depending on the circumstances where you took the damage. :\ The more this gets talked around in circles, the more "abstract" sounds like a way to make "we don't have a clear model of damage and healing that the system builds...

Um, right. "He dodges aside and is off balance - but not really off balance. Sort of like he would hav been off balance, but was immune to the unballancing effect of a slashing weapon. Because, you know, he was really off balance when he dodged Joe's mace...." No, it doesn't work. It's not...

This is why I asked about DR earlier. Hp were claimed to be abstract in 3e as well (it's been the fluff of every edition) but the DR rules list two fluff ways of description, both of which depend on a wound which should have caused physical damage. More importantly, it explicitly says "in either...

Speaking of the meaning of hp, is there any word on DR in the new edition?

I've been known to use scrabble and mah jong tiles. ;) not as good on hex maps though.

A comment made on the 4e forum discussion of DDI pricing made me wonder something about the online "Dungeon" and "Dragon" : what comics are (planned to be) included in the DDI? I can't recall seeing it discussed, though I'm not ruling out having missed it.

A STRANGE GAME. THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY. HOW ABOUT A NICE GAME OF CHESS?

and apparently melts your brain.... Where is that picture and what does it look like from other angles?

Yet another group of players may want to explore the world they are in and the story that they are helping build with the fights as a backdrop. It's often a mistake to assume that someone with different motivations than you really has the same ones but is pursuing them immaturely. "Gabe" of...

The creme eggs are still the best, but I tried the orange flavored eggs last year and they were interesting.

One of my neighbors works in a prison where some D&D materials are allowed. IIRC, some of the initial objections were pretty silly, (though in fairness, preventing favoritism is probably a pretty big priority in prison, thus making a certain dogmatism in interpreting rules understandable) but...

the whip proficiency worked very well when I was building an Ultimate Support Bard. With the tripping and disarming advantages, it gave a variety of choices of what to do in combat within the support niche. (trip and disarm? flank and aid? grease? heal?) Whips are cool. Bards are cool. Let the...

while I would find the labels you chose confusing (since they already have personality trait meanings) I agree with the importance of the distinction. There are definitely a lot of different ways for people to relate to their own C-L alignment. Personal codes vs imposing it on others, and also...

If it had been multiple choice I would have voted both hexes and 1-2-1-2. As it is I voted 1-2-1-2, simply because hexes can be harder to sell players on.

I'd also point out that it is possible for the development done by those employers to inadvertently reduce the options outside of working for them. If (to make up an example) an agribusiness dammed a river to irrigate their fields and provide all those jobs, people who lived downriver do not...

I've sometimes wondered if garbage based ethanol would be viable. All the vegetable and fruit matter that goes down the garbage disposal, into the trash, or best case into compost being fermented... In other most probably impractical ideas, I've often found myself wondering if "thin power...

heh, yeah, I don't mind the idea of less human seeming fey existing, dryads and nymphs have a mythic history... (maybe the dryad picture is what it looks like 'naturally' but it has an alternate form? I can hope.)

It's also not a done deal that full cooperation is a moral obligation of captives. If the situation was turned around and a PC was the captive, I really doubt anyone would be suggesting that continuing to work against their captures' goals was a non good action. In Lawful terms, if a combatant...

Though it's a common storytelling trope to reverse this, such as in Corpse Bride, where the "fishmongers" are marrying into the noble house to give their fortune respectability, while the nobles are just as desperate to marry into the fishmongers to prop up their respectable home with some...