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Nah they made it clear what was At-Will, Encounter or Daily. The readability made it super easy to use at the table and that was the goal. 4e power lists were just NOT designed for a casual read through. Wether that's good or not is up to preferences. The of the stuff you say was trimmed has...

Assuming the Wizard cares :p Eh, that's what Mending is for :p

Most options go unused but more option means it's more like for there to be one you want to try. If your favorite class never gets new options you won't find new stuff to experiment with.

It's sterile because it's clear, to the point, precise and unambiguous rules. So yes, clearly the clarity of the rules bothered people. Also, Rituals had all the fun RP spells. They were just not linked to your combat resources. Rituals became a group resource because people could pool their...

What does that even mean? What is a rule that 'facilitate immersion'?! I played a Druid. It was super powerful and super easy but also dreadfully BORING to me. So the fun of it doesn't matter when discussing power. Some people love to be the most powerful and others don't. Don't excuse bad...

Foreign alchemy is what it is!! To give 2 more level to a 4e Marilith you add 32 HP, and +2 to AC, Defenses, To Hit and Damage.

The thing is: READING the rules of a game is not the same as PLAYING the game! Why should reading the rules of the game need the same level of detachment as playing it? When reading the rules, I'm not in the audience watching the play, I'm the actor reading the script. Rulebooks should be...

Adding 2 levels of a PC class to an NPC is already too much. There's no good reason for NPCs to use PC rules. I was doing comedy through extremes. I'd love to track down the quote but that'll be really hard... not helped by the fact 'Wizards' is what many called WOTC.

Caster on caster violence is so disappointing ...

Well the purpose of the 4e Monster Stat Blocks was to be easy to use a DM without needing to reference anything outside the block itself. Could they have added more stuff outside the stat block? Probably. But the stat block itself was built for a specific purpose and it worked great at that...

Oh yeah the early Paladin was a 'V' class with two potential main stat. That was a misguided experiment and they dropped those pretty fast. No class beyond the PHB1 use that framework and they stopped supporting certain combination. The Cleric stopped getting STR/CHA powers, for exemple, to...

Yes, but it's my bit and I'm sticking to it. Don't ever take it personally. I never played a Controller in 4e but kinda wish I tried at least once. I played multiple Clerics, played a Warlord, a Paladin, an Avenger, a Warlock, a Bard. I should have finished the Divine classes and played an...

Sometimes I wonder if anything short of a 3.75e would have ever gone over properly with the fans back then? I feel like 4e was bound to be controversial no matter what as long as it changed fundamental rules. I wonder if DnD needed to go through this turmoil to come out stronger? Would 5e have...

You could have the classes organized in chapters and there could be a Fighter chapter.

In 4e you could use backgrounds to grab Streetwise as a skill. I think 4e actually focused the classes on a more narrow archetype and that was probably part of the problem. The 4e Fighter doesn't try to be EVERY guy who is 'good at weapon'. He ws the knight who protects his allies, the other...

In the thread talking about 4e we brought up the 'Archer Fighter' problem where people wanted to play a FIGHTER that did archery, but the 4e Fighter wasn't designed for it and only had it as a backup option. To make an archer you were supposed to use the Ranger (who could easily NOT pick Nature...

I just checked and the Ranger gets to choose between Nature or Dungeoneering. You can make a Ranger that doesn't have Nature as a skill. The Ranger was one of the few classes to get Perception as an option from the start so that was cool. You could go Dungeoneering, Athletics, Endurance...

Or maybe people just hated that the game had balance between classes as a design goal... I mean, they also made the Wizard weaker. Heinsoo even said he had to fight his own team who wanted the Wizard to be the strongest class...

You mean the Cantrip?