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I've had 3 TPKs that I can remember in 4e, and I don't run 4e that often. So a fairly high rate. One thing I've observed about 4e is that combat is much more inevitable. Usually, a combat in 4e reaches a point when a TPK (or rout of the monsters) is pretty much guaranteed unless one party or...

Yep, that thing is awesome, and they were even good enough to send it to me in little old New Zealand. The only downside was that the courier left it on the doorstep, and by the time I got home my dog had opened the box and used the fist (and other contents of the box) as chew toys for the day...

I actually agree. I wasn't saying the problem is that it's too powerful (though it certainly is plenty good under the right circumstances), just that it's very odd that the power is better on a miss than a hit. And that your "fix", while good for other problems, doesn't fix that oddness. Not...

It doesn't fix the issue Krensus outlined at all (that in some situations it's better to miss with Grease than hit with it). Enemies will still move in, get missed and then get slid back out again, wasting more movement than if they'd been hit and knocked prone...

No, he's worried that the level 29 power is strictly worse than the level 25 one, as has stated as much. Are you trying to say that's somehow acceptable because players shouldn't assume higher level powers are always better than lower level ones or something?

Not quite. Under OAs in the PHB (p290), it states two (distinct and separate) conditions under which an enemy provokes an OA: "Moving Provokes" (this condition excludes forced movement) and "Ranged and Area Powers Provoke". Polearm Gamble adds another condition which also provokes an attack -...

There's still the Wizard spell Jump (utility level 2). Gives a +10 bonus and negates the need for a run up (much bigger in 4e than previous editions). :)

I think the big two for me are the 15 minute adventuring day and the magic item "christmas tree" effect. In both cases the pre-release marketing claimed to have fixed them. In both cases, you can see in the system where they've tried. In both cases they failed horribly. The introduction of...

Cool - that all makes sense. And I agree with your assessment about the recharge mechanic as well. :)

Nice work - that's really cool. One slight critique: I probably wouldn't make "take a drink" a power - I'd just let it (along with breaking planks of the bridge out from under characters) be a stunt he could attempt in combat - i.e.: attach it to the terrain, not the monster. In this case it...

Welcome to the target demographic for 4e - someone who wants a new PHB released every year! :)

The d20 license already has been withdrawn. The OGL cannot be withdrawn or changed in any way, shape or form.

I don't know about this - particularly with the way 4e works. Everything you need can be encapsulated on a few cards. Have you seen the character builder? It has an "overview card" with your characters basic stats. Add one for skills plus a couple of at-will "power cards" for basic attacks, and...

Seriously? You're saying that if your company brought out a new product, and marketed it to of all the people who have used your companies products before, the sales/marketing people would be "overjoyed" at selling the new product to 1 out of 100 of the users of previous products? That certainly...

To be fair, that's not a very good analogy. Now if you had a percentage of the population that enjoyed fantasy books, rather than were just literate in English, that might be a more fair comparison. The court docs specify "hundreds of thousands" of "core books" and 6 million "D&D players". The...

Yeah, and I hear what you're saying too. Lets just say that I think he has a great understanding of the RPG business, but that I also think he still has much to learn about the computer software business (and how it relates to RPGs)... :)

While I think Brown Jenkin is dead wrong that WotC cares anything about what Ryan Dancey has to say, from my perspective there is a big difference between the opinionated dislike of a gamer* towards a system and the reasoned analysis of someone like Ryan about the RPG business. Ryan has a track...

Sure - that wasn't my point. If you read the rest of my post, I say exactly what you've just said - that any lost sales/revenue will be based on forecasts/predictions based on previous sales/revenue data. So I think we can safely say that 4e sales/revenue is less than expected, based on that...

Actually, we have plenty of evidence: How can you prove lost sales/revenue? WotC certainly can't prove that people who downloaded the book from a filesharing site would have purchased either the PDF or print copy of the book (or at least, if that is their argument then I'd expect any half...

I realise this was tongue in cheek, but this is an oft repeated fallacy. The above claims are based on statistics gathering from sales and viewing information, and the only thing these statistics tell us is the MS Windows is the most installed operating system, and that American Idol is the most...