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Okay, you ignored my previous question(s), and I try to keep them simple, but I don't worry as you sort of answered them anyway. With regard to the above quote, where do you draw the line if you were the DM? If someone comes up with whatever character concept they want, and they can make it...

Couldn't you actually say that if they can't tolerate something due to their not liking it and not wanting to incorporate it as saying that their imagination isn't as good as yours as they aren't willing to try and see how it would work? Not that I really buy any of that. I don't think that...

I think this quote is totally yours. Please correct me if someone else claimed that their imagination is better, as I haven't seen it. I think what people are saying is that as a DM, they are the ones either creating a world or using a pre-published world, but they are the ones running that...

Just wondering if you can give an example where you guys didn't agree and neither would bend. How did you solve? -wally

I don't really have my book handy, but doesn't it specifically say in one of them or more that all you have to do is to try and avoid the gaze and you don't even have to make the saves? Sure you may be fighting at a bit of a penalty, but if you keep trying to look at something that can kill you...

Just for clairification, was it all within one combat? Was that combat the first for the day when everyone had all their powers? Was it within a power level close or equivalent to the party that had deaths? Doesn't mean much without more info. At least to me. :) -wally

Okay, if your DM was regularly putting you up against creatures that cast save or die spells at will every round that didn't have such a ridiculously low DC that it was worthless to use, then that is more of a problem with your DM not with the fact that there were save or die options in the...

Sorry, I thought you were saying that there were effects that make you roll three saves, and if you fail all then you die. Misunderstood. If you are knocked to minus hit points, then there should be more of a danger, as you are at 'death's door.' I was refering more to how long and how...

Well, I am not really clear on that. It sounds like you are saying that where in previous editions, a failed save could kill you, now if you fail multiple saves before you heal yourself, then you are dead. It also sounds like one half the hits you receive after reaching 0 hit points could kill...

Actually it is how you look at it. If I, as a fighter, never had to deal with any risk because the great and powerful magi in the realm couldn't kill me with a single spell instantly, I wouldn't see any great risk in running right into their lair and swinging away at whatever minions were...

My group is pretty similar with time spent gaming and availability. I don't think that makes it any different than any of the other groups I have gamed with. They all want to have fun in their own ways. Well, we specifically don't normally run encounters/fights that last for hours of real...

I think it is a little in line with what you are saying. Previously, a barbarian could only rage x times per day (depending upon level), which ended up being explained, either by your interpretation of the rules, or by your DM stating why it happened that way. The problem I think most people...

I kind of like the idea of playing in a game where a low-level kobold can start raising his minions at will. When my character got back to town I would have a little chat with the local priest. "What do you mean you can't raise dead?! We easily beat a kobold out in the wilderness who could...

The DM giving you encounters refers to the fact that he has to come up with whatever you run in to in the world. If you are leaving town, having a fight, going back to town to spend the rest of the day doing nothing so you can sleep. Then waking up the next day, leaving town having a fight and...

That is where I was refering to play style. If you know your DM is only going to give you one encounter a day, then sure, go ahead and use up all of your spells. If you don't know or you have a DM who has previously given you two or more combats in a given day than it isn't in your best...

I think that is what I was getting at. If you let your spellcasters blow all their spells in one combat, and I don't mean the big one where it is absolutely needed, then it isn't the fault of the game design. Magi are supposed to have a level of intelligence, and they should know that it isn't...

The open close idea is not a bad one, and I can see it being used, if someone would think of it. Most spellcasters didn't take it for the daily though. If you are spending money on buying or building wands of invisibility or knock, that is your choice, but you aren't spending it on other...

I don't mean to sound to critical, but that doesn't sound like the fault of the way the class was designed. If you guys relied so much on the one wizard, and you let him blow all of his spells right away, before you reached the TPK fight, then it sounds more like it was because that was the way...

Did you really play in a game where that happened? I keep seeing that argument. 'Well a wizard can cast spells to do what a rogue does.' Have there been that many games where people saw that happen? When I saw wizards get to that high of a level, they felt that they wanted to spend their...

I think the problem here is that most of the 4e responses I have received is that you as a player are supposed to understand that you are separate from the character, and you are to make character decisions outside of the character's mind. 4e seems to push for that separation, and for...