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They probably don't have it encoded in the rules that it is required b/c some people just don't care. I've known people in all editions of the game that leave things at "my fighter is angry, he swings his sword at the orc *roll*" and no edition will change that. I've been in groups that highly...

This is not restricted to 4E. Classes throughout the history of D&D have always been "a touch of this class with a shade of this class and this new bit". A Paladin is, at its core, a cross between a fighter and a cleric. It's possible we could have these, but that means coming up with...

So WotC says up front that they have divided the classes into 4 roles and that each role will produce the same results. This means that if you take a Fighter or a Paladin and they pick abilities to let them tank successfully, you should achieve the same level of results. How are you surprised...

Uhm...isn't this exactly what WotC did with 4E FR? They now give a general overview of the area and add a small bit of specifics before moving onto the next. So someone coming to 4E FR for the first time, w/o the expectation of all the canonical detail from prior editions can look at it pretty...

You mean the authors of the setting? The 5th Age stuff all comes about as a direct result of the Dragons of Summer Flame book. Still have no idea why they tried switching to the SAGA card system, but not all experiments work. They probably were trying to accomplish something that did less to...

Those areas have been done to death. Maybe they had enough people complain to them about the focus on a few areas and how they ignore the rest of a gigantic world. Most of the 2E material is still perfectly usable with a 3E era FR game and they already had products detailing those areas very...

Viva la spell plague!! :) Maybe I just enjoy change. I'm happy w/the Cataclysm expansion for WoW too heh.

The people who felt that FR, esp during 2E and 3E, had material released that detailed so many areas to such minute levels all seem to agree about the lack of mystery and magic to the setting. I love watching "making of" special features. I enjoy knowing how they pulled off some things you see...

jdrakeh>Curses, beat me to posting that article :) BTW, for anyone curious, searching for "ryan dancey tsr warehouse" will pull that up as the first hit on google. I really don't know how anyone could read that and try to come up w/some version where that didn't have anything to do with...

Yeah I started posting here, possibly on a slightly different handle, back when it was still Eric's site in the year prior to 3E coming out. I paid money to help out around here. It's overall a pretty nice place and I enjoy the conversation, even tho there are some people that make me want to...

The generic area things they added into the 4E FR book are really the worst part of the entire book. I like that for the core adventure series they would post free articles talking about how you would fit this area into X campaign world. Helps you take the more generic adventure and find a...

Nope don't read Candlekeep and I'm not surprised in the least that people ask that sort of thing. I just meant that it seemed there was a Volo's guide to freaking everything and other FR products got to the point where someone could say "Oh no, 3 streets over, 2 blocks up is a bookshop" while...

Like I said I didn't have the text for the feats in front of me and I was just trying to separate things out a bit. Things are more clear now.

Does expertise only work for melee or does it work for spells too? If Draconic Spellcaster is a +spell hit and expertise is a +melee hit, we have no problem. I'm at work and I think my friend borrowed Arcane Power anyway, so I can't look it up myself heh.

Well he became the God of Strife, Death, Secrets, and whatever else he got from otehr gods he killed or out-did in the case of Mask. He really was doing what he was supposed to do for his portoflio, which was the entire point of the Trial of Cyric the Mad novel. Mystra letting her personal...

Why is the feat scaling retarded? If what I have read on other threads is correct, Expertise was a math fix feat. Some people are just giving the beenfit of Expertise at 5 15 and 25 to fix characters and not force everyone to feel the need to pick up Expertise. Feat as math fix isn't an...

I'm ok with the separate forums here at ENWorld. 3E, 4E and OGL are all in different groups so if you only really care about one of those and don't want to dig past threads about unrelated things, you can do so. Not too many forums to worry with and it improves the signal:noise ratio...

I believe that may be a community supporter option. I have a paid account, but I don't bother w/too many of the special options heh.

This has been said quite a bit, but it can't be said enough. During the alpha and beta period of Pathfinder, the attitude of the boards were certainly enough to keep me away as well. If you weren't gushing all over the new material you got tarred and feathered. Heaven forbid you don't agree...

I don't think there is any danger in that. Avangions were preserver/psionicists who made it to level 20 in both and who then started making their way to 30 thru a very difficult process. If you were in a campaign w/tons of avangions, something was wrong :) The entire Dragon Kings book was...