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I think I have been making that argument for a while. :)

Well, the milk is a physical object. A gallon is one way of measuring how much is present. There are any number of ways to describe how much milk is present. The philosophical part of your response details exactly whether or not those methods are valid. There are very few philosophical...

Neither can the four, if the PCs move diagonally.

So, Saruman was a minion? ;)

Clearly, they don't. They are a measure of how difficult it is to overcome a particular challenge, and they exist independently of the PCs interacting with them or they are meaningless as a measure of anything. A gallon of milk isn't something else when people aren't measuring it. Except, it...

I don't get it. A mistake has consequences? It's possible for single hit to drop a PC? The rules don't do anything by themselves. No, I am suggesting that a DM who doesn't nudge things a bit when the players are expecting a low mortality rate and the ability to reach mid to high levels is a...

Well, that is why you would stop using them about level three or so. Kind of like that fifteen seconds of invulnerability you get in side scrolling video games. No, I get it. Why did you rush into combat? Or, if you were surprise ambushed, why didn't the DM let you get away when things...

I didn't say that. I said you may have to nudge things a bit to facilitate fun. That is the major goal of this new edition, isn't it?

Aren't additional hit points the same kind of kid gloves? I don't understand how you can have 'absolutely' no say about what your character does. Any reasonable DM would allow the party to retreat safely if things were going badly. If the DM has the monsters pursue your party until everyone...

Then, avoid being hit. There are plenty of ways to earn XP in previous editions without plunging into combat all the time. Point out where I said there was something wrong with the rules. I am offering alternatives ways to counteract this alleged 'swingyness'. I don't think there is anything...

Recalculate that without the crits. I thought the new edition was designed with 'complete fun' as a primary goal. If fudging a roll or two has the same outcome as more initial hit points, what is the difference? How does that make fudging less worthy as an option? If that is the ultimate...

So, a good portion of the Monster Manual won't be usable without serious modification? Great selling point. Wait, let me predict the response: "Play a different game, 4e is not for you". Perhaps a more challenging fight would have been less tedious?

Is the entire dungeon or campaign able to be finished by one attack roll? Or, alternately, effectively immune to damage on a miss-effect? Similarly, if hewing dozens of opponents that are no real challenge is considered the height of tactical play, perhaps that person ought not play RPGs...

Agreed. The FBI statistics someone posted a while back demonstrate that the movie notion of dying after one stab is entirely fiction. Most stabbing victims have been stabbed dozens of times in the face, neck and chest, and still managed to crawl away. Sometimes to get medical attention, other...

And that prevents the DM from ignoring the crit?

So, the DM didn't ignore the crit after they saw the monsters were a bit overpowered for your party? In other words, the DM in question seems more interested in applying the rules evenly than making sure people were having fun. Again, not a problem with the rules, just their application...

Except when the simplest answer isn't actually Occam's Razor: Much like Emerson saying "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds", the interpretation often doesn't mean what one would like it to mean. In this case, Irda Ranger has the minimum necessary entities to explain the...

Except, that isn't a problem with the rules. That is a problem with the DM. If the DM throws too much at the players, that will only be solved by giving the characters thousands upon thousands of hit points. Which will only encourage DMs to throw tougher monsters at them. And so forth. Far...

What separates your turnip farming pre-1st level PC from the turnip farming pre-1st level* NPC from the next farm? In other words, do PCs have midichlorians, and that is the only difference? *and apparently 'unable to achieve first level' as well

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