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This might be one of the only times I will say something nice about 4e. They got the defense scaling with level correct. They didnt do it first but they did recognize that it was better. Your defense bonus should absolutely scale with your attack bonus and armor should be DR. That helps low...

LoL at the ignorance of how retail marketing works here. 25$ a book to mass print? Try closer to 5$ per book. And very few people who are members of DDI are paying the month to month fee so you can only assume the 70 a year price. Theres between a 10 and 20% markup on books in a store. And...

Google their list of annual layoffs sometime. They've fired their developmental heads every year for almost 10 years now. And every year a bunch of writers get the axe too. Seriously google it. You have more job security as a paraplegic track star then you do as a WoTC writer. Theres an...

If i had to pick i would say the perfect level of creativity rules wise would be halfway between AD&D and 3e. I would like to see more guidelines and less rules. And more help with designing your own rules. As an example. Less "sure you can make your own classes but we dont think you...

I'd buy that game. They would have to resist the urge to go option crazy with splat books as the line grew though or it could get out of hand fast.

LOL dude i hate to break it to you but if you think the player NOT knowing the number he needs to beat affects his thinking about the math your deluding yourself. Players either ALWAYS have the math in mind or NEVER have the math in mind. And 90% of which way they go has more to do with their...

yes but if your working at WoTC your livelihood depends on random chance. Not talent or performance. Every christmas half the staff gets the axe. Good sales, bad sales, so-so sales. Doesnt seem to matter. At the end of the year you've only got a 50% chance of being employed there come next...

LOL i know that they said they did it. Does that mean they actually did it? Hell no. And even if they did do something. Did they sit down and play several whole sessions of the different editions with lots of the splat options thrown in to get a good feel for them or did they run one or two...

See I had a totally different experience using active defenses. Our combat rounds usually go something like.... me "the orc stomps towards you, sliding his hands on his axe to grip it lower down and comes at you with huge looping swings (power attacking), you hop over the first, slide to the...

IMO the way to do that is armor as DR and active defenses. A parry defense thats an opposed attack roll and a dodge defense thats rolling a reflex save versus the attack. That way if a lightly armed character would have a decent chance of avoiding being hit by an attacker with equal skill...

What you want then is white wolf. either straight human characters in the basic WoD or Hunters. With both of the armory books thrown in you have various combat style merits (basically feats) that add possibilities to different weapons but dont take any away. Its very fast and intuitive and...

I agree with the OP in theory. However fun it might be for a naked barbarian to be just as effective as a full plate wearing sword and board knight though its just a little too silly for me. When it comes right down to it the more technology advanced the heavier the soldier got because its...

I like my halflings as stout, fuzzy footed hobbits. Although the darksun ones are cool enough that I wouldnt mind them either. But when halflings are just human midgets like 3e and 4e I dont see the point.

As to how I think they should mix the 2 ideas..... Use 4e's free cantrips and ritual concept. Both are good concepts. Go over the spell list with a fine tooth comb and take all the game breakers, timestop, teleport, Long term flight, major summonings etc etc and make them rituals. Rituals...

First off, 60,000 people isnt :):):):). It just really isnt. Secondly those people are paying a small fee for an online service rather then a large amount for a print book. Over a very long period of time it might be a good financial move but over short and medium periods the whole...

Terrifying more like. I found myself nodding along as i read it.

DM is cheeseball. Change it.

On the original topic I would have booted the player right up front for that. Just TBH he's probably going to die sooner or later, every character does unless the DM protects them. I dont give PC's plot armor or anything of the sort. I think its silly and detracts from the game. So since...

I would prefer limited power along flavorful lines. Make all mages be specialist mages. Heres how i would work it. All cantrips are free for all wizards. Wizards pick 1 maybe 2 schools. These are their top schools. You get full spell progression in the top school. They pick as many weak...

Theres nothing wrong with a little gloating as long as the encounter was fair and the PC's died because of bad tactics. I usually have my big end of adventure challenges be a group of enemies of equal power to the PC's mathematically. I dont super optimize the bad guys and rarely use more...