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But what else am I going to be using my erasers for.

The most important parts of DDI (the stuff ppl are paying for) is not the pdfs but the online tools such as the character builder.

This is actually kinda funny. If you're playing MtG, you know that that WotC has powered down counterspells a whole lot in the last decade or so. It seems casual players really hates playing against them (not as much as LD though).

dex is an uberstat irl.

DL has Kenders. We need to include kender in the PHB to affirm our traditional roots!!

I see it not just in dragonborn threads but a lot of other threads when discussing "exotic" races. No one bats an eye if you want to play or include in your game one of the LOTR races, but if you want to play a dragon-man or devil-man or insect-man or metal-man and people scream "Mos Eisley...

I've seen similar templating distinctions used in Magic. Like the MC feat example here, 95% of the time there's no difference but that 5% of the time when it interacts with some other stuff, the specific wording and classification of the effect become critical to the outcome.

The wizard MC feat states that you can take a wizard at-will and use it once per encounter. It doesn't make that at-will into an encounter power nor does it allow you to trade it in for a higher level encounter power (because it's not an encounter power) or for a higher level at-will (there are...

Of course, for those classes, it's simplified by the fact that there are no at-wills beyond lv 1.

You know how the fighter MC feat lets you mark once an encounter or the ranger MC feat lets you quarry once an encounter, that's what this is for the psion MC feat (it's the same for the wizard MC feat as well). Since controllers don't have their own "controller mechanic", they just give you an...

The healing may be smaller in comparison, but it's still there in a pinch. You always have your 2 or 3 "word" ability healing real hps when things go south. Also, a big part of why taclords (even under the proposal that they only heal with temps) may be viable in 4e is that 4e allows PCs to top...

Warlord becomes a second-class "healer" (it should be reclassified as a buffer class rather than a healer class). You still need a cleric or some other magic healer to heal your real hps. In fact, the entire warlord class becomes superfluous. Why include a class in a party that "heals" with temp...

Don't be silly. 1 in a million means we would have around 7000 demigod-slaying paladins running around on Earth. ;) That's not rare at all.

So with all this talk about tripping gelatinous cubes a few pages ago, I took a look at their 3.5 stats. Did you know you could trip a cube in 3.5? Oozes are immune to stuns, sleeps, paralyzes, flanking etc. but not to tripping.

Well then, you'd be glad to know there's no compulsion involved in marking. If you're marked by a fighter, you can either choose to attack the fighter or you can attack someone else at a penalty and provoke an attack from the fighter. You always have a choice.

You forgot the feats that requires stat mins and turns off if your stat is reduced below the min, and IIRC PrCs that turns off if you don't meet your feat requirements. In 3e, there's a lot of cascading. As for dealing out penalties to attacks, ACs, skill checks etc. why not just call them...

Yes, by all means. Release a game that requires constant internet connection, even if you just want to play single player. Can you tell I'm bitter. :rant:

Wizards are neither politicians nor the scientists who build the WMDs. They are the WMDs. High level wizards are sentient nukes, who can build and fire their own nukes....Or maybe Skynet might be a better metaphor. Removing or controlling wizards by the masses of peasantry are as much a pipe...

Since we're talking about having too many conditions, I assume it's a problem with tracking the high amount of them during the game. As far as I know, there's no need to track the dead condition for anyone.

I think a reason people found 4e to have too many conditions is because everyone in 4e can inflict those conditions. Pre-4e, the only conditions non-casters can deal out with any regularity is prone. Everything else is the province of casters, and mainly the wizards who focuses on debuffing. If...