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I totally remember posting a reply here, but now it's gone! It was about people that were describing it as videogamey and meant it, but couldn't defend their feeling a point by point debate style like EN goes for and stuff! Seriously, it existed! I will add now, that the Anti-WotC vibe from...

It's also tiresome to see this SAME topic repeatedly brought up. Why does every thread involving an edition have to have a post about "well, those 3e guys think all 4e guys are fanboi's" or the reverse?

I'll tack on my "bought an issue of dragon magazine blindly, then the boxed set to see what I had bought..." Bought the boxed set at Zayre's, a department store long since deceased.

From my vantage, EN has always been VERY pro-3pp, and dug into 3.5e well enough with many C&C threads and such, but they were also easy enough to marginalize to separate forums. Now, that 3pp loyalty has a lot of folks sticking to 3e and demonizing 4e. So, I could easily see the 3e "faction"...

I dunno, General Discussion is the Main Forum, everything else is marginalized. If there's not enough discussion going to keep interest in a subforum, the folks will go to the other forum or go somewhere else entirely. I think you can have plenty of discussion internal to the system, but the...

Is that how you remember it? I thought I mentioned Flight was missing, then you pounced on me, then I clarified that I meant Freeform flight, then you ignored that for a while, then the arguement about how flight was a problem (for some people) went in. So to clarify my original point, 4e...

It's sort of simple, in my view. Moderators and such are human too, and have their own viewpoints. So they will ultimately, while trying to be "neutral" go one way or the other. ENWorld has always had an environment where certain people were just unmoderated. Others would get timed out for some...

Just sit back and enjoy a thread about how edition wars are making the board irritating devolve into an edition war definition thread. :)

When I felt like pushing a party, plot wise, I'd usually time the encounters so they'd level in between. As a participating member of the "poof method" of advancement, I also had a house rule that when you leveled you regained all your hp and spells (old and new). Sure it lacked in...

But, 4e HAS flight in combat. It's once per day (per power), and perhaps that ties into the other thread about the 15 min adventuring day, but... From what I gather, folks had a problem with Fly because folks would buy a wand of fly (5X3X750, 11,250gp. 225gp a charge) and then spam it all the...

Because the points have been addressed over and over. A combat spell with different levels of damage is a decision of equilizing the power of the spell for it's level. A 1d10 fireball and a 10d10 fireball are both fine, but one is higher level. Flight was removed in favor of a tactical version...

You get action points for milestones anyway, I think it'd be easy to give a Daily Power Recovery feature to action points. I think a paragon path or two may have something like this already, but you can make the cost higher. If you're already keeping track of action points, it would be one less...

I'm not a fan of Necromancer adventures, because for me their "1st edition feel!" was nothing more than over CR encounters designed to "challenge" by being difficult. It's easy to make a level 5 dungeon "challenging" by stocking it with CR9 beasties. For me, the biggest offender though was the...

I guess flying carpets always had a 5' max height? Magic brooms? The fly spell is not the only method of flight. Like I said, for my games it has not been a problem. It was used at higher levels for quick movement and that served to advance the storyline more than slogging through forests...

Then the DM and players should have a conversation about what kind of campaign and capabilities are there. If I as DM want to run a campaign centered around a drow city's intrigue, and one of the players comes up with a druid afraid of cities, then maybe I didn't explain stuff well enough...

In the same way that a rogue not being able to sneak attack undead/ constructs meant not that you never used them, but also not that you used them all the time. Sometimes fly lets a mage dominate an encounter, other times the group is inside and flying to the top of the 10' room is meaningless...

Actually, Elric's fatigue/ weakness was an important part of such stories. I'm sure if you gave players a mechanic by which they regained powers by slaying foes, they would go longer. Until then, Adventuring Parties are the equivalent of swat teams. You raid the house (dungeon), kicking in...

Well, my point was that the DM controled the pace. If you wanted 2 big encounters in a day, you could adjust for it. If you wanted them to clear out a small keep (say, 12 encounters) than you needed to prepare for them resting, or lower the enemies strength to compensate. It's not unbreakable or...

You know, it's funny. I'm playing a wizard, so didn't really look at the ritual scroll stuff. So I kept thinking "nyah, I just get it free for leveling". So after reading up on this, I discovered that you don't even need the ritual feat to use the scroll. So, yeah, now the fighter with no...

I know ogre's are the running example, but they're not CR5 monsters, so I think the simple solution is "use appropriate monsters". I think a 5th level group should be able to dominate against ogre's, but that's just me. Give the ogre's a pet dragon, or a catapult or something if you want to...