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I wouldn't. Skill in combat does not per se make a king. Also, history is replete with examples of sickly kings, child kings, and kings who were assassinated with one stab or hit, all of which would be modeled by a minion. It's perhaps best not to get too hung up on the terminology - all it...

I see search. There's a pull-down menu. When I put in a search term and click search, it brings up the aforementioned subscribe graphic and error message. Oh, and it also kicked me in the nuts. Ow.

Replace "Korea" and "Korean" in your paragraph with "Okinawa" and "Okinawan" and it's correct. You should re-check your sources. I'm a first generation Korean immigrant, as well as a Tae Kwon Do practitioner. Incidentally, although a lot of my compatriots will seriously dispute this...

I did the same thing as you, CapnZapp. Except I just gave the bonuses as listed to the PCs at periodic levels, instead of dealing with items. Also, I spaced out the levels so you would never acquire a +2 jump in one level, due to ability score increase and enhancement bonus. But in the end my...

I never felt compelled to use any more books than I wanted to run a game, regardless of the label.

There's more tolerance for sub-optimal in other ways. For instance, if you want to have a party of 4 fighters for some role-playing reason, it is much more viable for survival in 4e than in 3e, for mid- to high- levels. As an aside, I think there's a bit of an expectation that a role-playing...

How would that be different in any other edition?

This was what I was getting at. Basically in 4e, unless you're making a build that doesn't or can't raise its primary attack stats, it can make a reasonable contribution to the party.

I find this to be some severely flawed reasoning.

I wasn't taking a stab at you. There's no subtext behind my question. That is, who on this thread is questioning questioning EGG's skill/intelligence/integrity? I didn't see any of that. I agree with this, in much the same way that The Little Raven does. Except, before this, you stated: That...

I agree with you. Heck, the OP was exactly about "the way the criticism is formulated." But this is not what you said in your previous post. You just started assuming all kinds of other things. Who's questioning skill/intelligence/integrity?

That's a vast exaggeration.

I wouldn't say it's useless. It's still an auto-crit. Yes, the auto-death part becomes less useful at higher tiers, but I don't consider that a bad thing.

PHB p. 130, "Misty Step: ... When an enemy under your Warlock’s Curse is reduced to 0 hit points or fewer, you can immediately teleport 3 squares as a free action."

My opinion (both from play and from extensive perusing of CharOp boards) is that each power swap feat is in many cases A Very Good Option, as long as one is careful about the choices he makes. In other words, definitely worth a feat as long as you know what you're doing. I'm not inclined to...

If you bring a topic to a public forum, you should be fully prepared to discuss it. This includes viewpoints opposing yours. The only courtesy anyone should expect at all times is adherence to the said forum's code of conduct and topic range by all parties involved. Incidentally, did you not...

I'm quite frankly surprised that so many people take Gygax or anyone else's opinion so seriously, about a game you sit around and play with your friends. I can appreciate that he essentially created the hobby, but we don't "owe" him any more than that.

5th edition should have the following standard races: Hadozee, Giff, Giant Space Hamster, Neogi, Tinker Gnome, and Scro. Oh, and it should also be set in space. Just sayin'.

Marks: "A creature can be subject to only one mark at a time. A new mark supersedes a mark that was already in place." RPGA: I don't really know, since I've never played in an RPGA game, but I'd expect that there would be an incredibly high amount of tactical ambiguity in playing 4e without a...

Time is finite, true, but in many cases there's a natural saturation point for optimization and role-play development, where you no longer can or have the desire to squeeze out more optimization or add more RP. In other words, at some point characters will feel "done," stats and personality...