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    Diagonal wonkiness scenarios

    Have I mentioned that I love you? To be honest, the movement is one of the few things that I strongly dislike about 4e. I will probably come to a compromise, and use a grid, with a ruler. If part of your mini-base would overlap on a square, you can be in that one. And just leave it like that...
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    Hit Points, Healing, "Realism" and the Missing Piece of the Puzzle

    Raise Dead has been earmarked, from what I understand, as an 'everyman's ritual'
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    Mage Hand cantrip

    I'm a bard man. My lecherous bard is *so* going to do whatever necessary he has to, to get Mage Hand.
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    Mage Hand cantrip

    Its coming down at something roughly approaching its TV, it it made it around 400ft up. Whether or not that is higher than the 'muzzle' velocity, I'm not sure. Although the muzzle velocity is not necessarily going to be that much of a huge factor.. 'archer's paradox' where the arror is bent and...
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    Hit Points, Healing, "Realism" and the Missing Piece of the Puzzle

    Unless they flavour the Warlord with actual magical healing, this concept will require a cleric in the party, which is one of the things 4th was trying to escape.
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    Why Not Just Call Them Stamina Points?

    This is what I love about arguments like this.. People never actually examine the other person's arguments. Sit back. Take the other persons position. Work through it. Put aside your preconceptions. Which one, for all editions, makes more sense? Which edition stands out like a sore thumb? If...
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    Mage Hand cantrip

    We have seen Terry Byran catch the flu-flu fletched arrow that was shot to one side of him. How do you think he would have faired if the archer used a real hunting arrow,at hunting velocities and fired it directly at his chest, and not to one side, with Terry standing there with his hand...
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    Mage Hand cantrip

    You can probably catch an arrow on a ballistic flight pattern from 200 metres away, if you are lucky. Still unlikely. You have *no* hope of catching an arrow fired at you from 50 metres away. From a weak bow, it will still have a velocity of 85mph. Catching it required you to close your hands...
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    Mage Hand cantrip

    Nobody can grab an arrow midflight.. At least, not within an effective straight-shot distance. Mythbusters successfully demonstrated that it is simple not possible for a human being to close their fingers fast enough. Deflection of an arrow is a different question. As for the other...
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    Developing a "points of light" campaign setting

    I'm running with the following.. My PC's will, for whatever reason they choose to pick, have congregated in a largish (10K+) city, that is at the edges of the old Human Empire. The timeframe for this will be during the last moments of the Empires's life, though my PC's won't know this. I'll...
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    Tieflings

    response about Real world racial stuff removed - PS Regardless of the individual ethical stance of any given Tiefling, they only exist through a great evil. That's what I didn't like about the comparison. Otherwise, I'd agree with the concept, Hong.
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    Tieflings

    No matter how I convince myself that Turathi is phonetically seperate, my brain keeps reading Kilrathi.
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    Tieflings

    Please don't bring to the thread something that isn't there. Thanks - Plane Sailing I dunno.. I like it, I like them, though like somebody else, the first thing I thought of, when I saw the picture, was Draenai.
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    Gnome (v. 0.1)

    Too Tall. These are just Halflings, that live underground. Some interesting ideas, though.
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    If gnomes had the eladrin's powers would that make them more appealing?

    And where are you when the sun goes down? You're so far away ... So far away from me..
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    D&D 3E/3.5 4E Simulationism: Did 3.5E Really Do That Good of a Job?

    Finally. Sheesh. Took long enough. There are a very few issues that I think will require careful treading in 4ed. By acknowledging that the PCs are a level above the majority of the world, most of these go away. Hopefully, they've dealt with some of the really world-breaking things from 3.5...
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    If gnomes had the eladrin's powers would that make them more appealing?

    gnomes are too short. That's about it. They do not fit in to the stat brackets, and they really don't fit with the 'no-negative-racial-penalties. Gnomes should have no negatives to Str, and a Max str of 12. Tops. They are 3ft Tall. They simply don't have the leverage or the density to claim to...
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    Rules that still feel unneeded (to me)

    If them DM is unable to exercise the control over the playing field that would prevent this? Well, I have no nice words to say about that DM. The 6 hour mechanic is still less broken than Rope-Trick. You've actually got to camp and rest in the open, where you could be seen/found.. and interrupted.
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    D&D 4E 4E: The day the game ate the roleplayer?

    I agree wit WoTC's bitch. I mean, I can follow and understand what you say Wolfen, it just doesn't seem to be based on anything, though. I mean, you have a role to play. One which is thematically and mechanically set, in DND 4e. Within that role, you can do whatever they hell you want. If...
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    D&D 3E/3.5 4E Simulationism: Did 3.5E Really Do That Good of a Job?

    Feyaday cages should keep those Eladrin in prison. ;)
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