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"If there are sixteen giant rats, and you're fighting them, and you curse and slay each of them one at a time, you get a pact bonus for each of them." "If there are fifteen giant rats, and you're fighting them, and you curse and slay each of them one at a time, you get a pact bonus for each of...

You will notice that the sentence says only that no benefit is gained from carrying the sack around. The sentence strongly implies that benefit is also not gained from the actual hitting of the rats, but that's an implication, not a statement. I gain no benefit from carrying a healing potion...

OK. If a warforged is hit with poisonous sleep gas, what should happen? Common sense suggests that the warforged should remain conscious; warforged are not portrayed as requiring sleep, have no organs that could be affected by a sleep toxin, and are not only capable of holding their breath...

First, I was specifically referring to a claim about what was 'explicitly' stated in the rules. Next, well, yes; it is generally assumed that if you have a list of rules that prohibit A - F and read as though the intent was to prohibit G but don't actually, then G isn't prohibited by the letter...

The explicit text of the DMG prohibits sacks of rats; there is nothing in there about individually-wrapped rats. The DMG defines illegal targets for powers as non-credible threats; rats are presented as credible threats in Keep on the Shadowfell, therefore there is no explicit statement in the...

No; We have creatures that can be easily subdued, bound, and put into sacks who are valid targets for powers. We could posit that such creatures are not meaningful threats while bound, but if we're attacked by sixteen rats and we react by pulling a seventeenth rat out of our pack, untying it...

I'm sorry, you appear to be using definitions of the words 'rules', 'game world', and 'physics (of the game world)' of which I am unfamiliar. Moreover, as the statements '(This set of) rules are the physics of the game world' and '(This set of) rules are the rules of the game' are logically...

I could try again using Forge jargon, if you like.

OK, let's define terms. "Rules of the game" can be used to mean either RAW, or the shared set of assumptions among the players about how the game works. Monopoly free parking money is an example of what can be a rule of the game, but isn't RAW; quiet ignoring of rules judged to be unnecessary...

You know, a character with flight and no max altitude with an attack of range >40 (like, just say, a longbow) that can deal 11 or more damage can still kite the Tarrasque easily. Would anyone like to run a solitary ranger with Far Shot and a flying mount (and arbitrary amounts of arrows) and...

Oh, OK. The Meaningful Threat rule has noticeable effects in the gameworld; characters are physically incapable of using maneuvers on non-meaningful threats. Characters can observe maneuvers and their results. Therefore, trying to generate a creature that triggers the meaningful threat rule...

Hey, thanks to the specificity rule, all you need is an effect that protects your physical form. "You are zorted into nothingness." does not reference other rules; "You are protected from things that zort you." does; ergo, the dark and subtle mysteries of the Vecna-bits will be available as...

Artifacts aren't entities, is the problem. They are little black holes of Plot, that exist on a separate level from the rest of the universe. Having Vecna's hand and eye have power over me when I can hunt him down and dismember him make for poor drama and bad plotting; there should be in-game...

Gandalf was of the same class of being as Sauron, and served a more powerful (if subtler) patron. If Galadriel had an expectation of being able to claim mastery of the ring on account of magical pussiance and willpower, Gandalf could as well. It's just that doing so would slap his alignment...

When you consider that D&D characters are more along the lines of Gandalfs and Aragorns, who have a quite decent chance of mastering the ring, defeating Sauron physically and spiritually, then going on to send airship troop-carriers to Valar and reenact the War of Wrath before having a word with...

I like the meaningful threat thing. It means that due to the movement rules, you can lock down a monster, cease to engage it, and prevent it from using anything other than basic attacks on the characters hedging it in while the credible threats blast it into oblivion. The problem is that you...

Yes, but what are we crashing into? The ironic thing is that the same distribution network that lets you distribute content for basically-free lets artists who create for the joy of creation distribute content just as cheaply freely. You may no longer be able to make a living writing RPG...

Also, don't forget that unlike before, where you needed diamonds, for 4E raise dead you need either generic restoration ritual components, or 2,500 gp worth of magic items.

Read the sidebar from RoE again. Warforged decide if they want adopt a male or female gender identity. "No, I do not want to adopt a gender identity." is a valid answer to the question. Hey, WotC knew the risks when they gave us the race of dungeonpunk constructs.

For their class abilities, I suggest starting with ranger, but replacing spellcasting with limited martial abilities from the Bo9S. You can get away with the mutations as a +1 LA template, I'd bet; start with Lloth-blooded and switch boni and immunities as desired.