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Generally I have a plan formed based on the battlefield ready to go from the end of my initiative until the person immediately before me screws up by either moving into the space that I needed to occupy for it to work correctly, moving some of the bad buys out of the area, or getting in the...

Nitpick: You won't sit back, wait and see though. You'll jump on every rumor you hear, post inflammatory blog posts, and generally snipe on the rumor of 5e being right around the corner. Or at least that's what you've done so far. You don't get to pretend to be above it all while also being...

I'm not saying you're a troll, I'm just saying that every topic you post in become inflamed with off-topic emotional responses. Yeah, that's what I've gathered as well. Though I suspect that every E3 lead up hears rumors of the xbox 720, every theater owners conference has rumors of the...

Trapfinding? Sure, you could use chickens, but they don't weigh enough to set off some pressure plates.

I will be disappoint if they don't have a donkey-horse or at least reference it in some way.

I'll hopefully be starting a campaign shortly and thus resubscribing to DDI for compendium access. The one thing I've heard is that Dragon/Dungeon have improved inthe last six months or so. Somewhat are everyone's list of best of the magazines for this year? Adventures, fluff, classes, what is...

The weekend in hell version of ravenloft is arguably pretty strong in 4e. The full campaign setting isn't as well supported though.

I could almost believe the opposite, that difficulty getting the tools working with the established rules will push towards an earlier release of new rules.

Stupid rules changes. It used to work the other way.

The other big difference between 3e and 4e is party resource management. In 3e, resources tended to drop off linearly and challenging the party assumed a higher degree of attrition (ie, the party having a chance to rest right before the boss would make a huge difference). In 4e, resources are...

Dragon content wise, stuff sounds good. Software-wise, it's sounding pretty bad, IMO. Stuff like a monster builder have been promised/shelved/promised far too often. Not to refight the same fight about DDI yet again, but it would have been nice to see some evidence that any of the software...

In practice, it works out about the same though. When I'm blind, I still know where everyone is, unless they make a stealth check, which they can do because when I'm blind, everyone has total concealment from me.

It's presumed that in combat, you know where all enemies are unless they have some way of getting total concealment and then make a stealth check that beats your perception check. Just going invisible doesn't make them disappear, they also have to roll stealth (which they can do because...

The enemy has resist 15 cold and 5 vulnerable cold. In practice, here's what that means: a creature can decide whatever order it wants for the purposes of applying resists and vulnerabilities (not sure of citation). So in practice, if it takes 15 cold damage, it'll choose to resist it first...

Yeah, upon rereading, I'm not sure what I was thinking.

I'm reading that differently. I read that as the untyped damage from the weapon ignores any resistance not just untyped.

I kinda wish we'd see a reboot of the original adventure path in dungeon or a book at some point. I'm not convinced that the setting needs a full treatment, but recreating the original adventure would be awesome.

IMO, if you are playing a defender, having sky high defenses is pointless unless you also focus on making your mark mean something. The ideal is defenses that are tempting but still high and a really nasty punishing attack for anyone who ignores you.

Nostalgia really was better in the olden days. I'm not saying that you're wrong, just that its really hard to compare feelings for the first time you experience something to having done it for decades.

Isn't gencon on right now? That kinda disproves the author's claim right there. 4e's announcement was basically done by the time gencon got started. The fact that gencon has started without a major announcement of edition change pretty much blows that open. Any competitor spreading FUD about...