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I see what you are saying, it's just a bit too... forced? artificial? I guess what I am seeing with this and the skill challenges is the rules poking through the description, or the description not being solid enough to maintain the veil over the rules. No biggie, it looks like something you...

I apologize, for my part. I think further inquiry in this topic would be fruitless for me.

Good one. :)

Hold on, isn't that limiting my narrative control? Any good explanation? And the DM is required to accept it? Hmmm... I am seeing a trend. The problem seems to be less with the rules than with bad DMing...

But only one of those is an action. Secondly, what if the DM said the exact same thing as your last example instead of 'Orc missed'? How is that qualitatively better?

As in, my character fell down the stairs, was 'hit' by three arrows, poisoned, in the middle of a fireball, and mauled by a bear over the course of the day. I could describe that character as bleeding out his eyes, holding his guts in with one hand, and barely able to stand. But, since I used...

So, I don't have to take damage anymore either?

So, "I attack the orc" isn't input?

If all I am doing is marking ticks off a character sheet, why is it important for anyone to control the narrative? Hit points are not physical damage, so why describe it at all? The wound, or lack thereof, have no mechanical effect, so how does describing advance my character or the plot? So...

What if I decide my character has suffered no wound at all? Or that my Rope Use skill should impress a guard at the king's treasure vault? So, these rules will help prevent bad DMing? Or, maybe they won't. I am sure you have a follow up showing how previous rules actively prevented players...

Wait, are you saying that 4e will actually allow me, as a player, to have some kind of say as to what happens at the table? I won't be forced to attack a dragon until my PC dies? The Cleric won't be casting healing spells on me without my permission? Could it be that I might, possibly, also...

But you always were within your rights to deny an NPC revival. Also, while you may see a big difference, Charwoman Gene has confirmed that, in fact, there is no mechanical difference. I believe the general assumption is that a 'ritual' takes anywhere from 1 minute or more. Possibly hours or...

Not really. I bolded the important part. While not crippling, that is still a limitation. Also, the text refers to mundane items. Not in the context of 'non-magical', but in the context of 'every day items'. I am pretty sure diamonds are not an every day item for most inhabitants of a small...

As do I. I wrote this after Charwoman Gene mentioned that Raise Dead hasn't changed, but the ideas were running through my head for a bit, so I wanted to post them anyway Yes, I think this is the crux of the issue, really. The spell itself is not exceptionally easy to obtain. The real...

So, we can put to rest the notion of how much better Raise Dead is handled in 4e?

That is the other side of the problem. In 3.x, you knew there was a fairly consistent setup. While often abused in a number of places, it was still consistent and you could call shenanigans. Now, a monster can have any number of possibly wildly unbalanced powers, and there is no legitimate...

But the spell requires 5,000 gp worth of diamonds. I would be relatively sure that most temples or other places of Clerical worship don't have hundreds of thousands of gp worth of diamonds lying around in order to change out for gold when people need to be raised.

And AC! Where does the madness stop?? Well, roughly there, it appears. Monsters have their own mini-system of powers that PCs can't access, among other differences.

Not as often as common knowledge would indicate. For example, unlike TV shows, it is rare for someone to fall over dead from a single knife stab. Without getting too morbid, I would advise looking up some crime statistics before basing an argument on the assumption that people are as frail as...

I apologize, then, for my own misinterpretation, and there is no dislike between us from my end. I hope I haven't engendered any from yours. Actually, it rather is. Allow me to clarify: there is a comparison, and a sub-point. The comparison is between healing and raise dead. Why are NPCs...