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In 3e, a cleric regained spells at dawn. If they were waiting 23 hours before, 18 hours isn't a difference. If the 3e CR system was used correctly and encounters were paced correctly, it was never a problem. When one DM insisted on ambushing us with encounters that by CR shoulda killed us and...

If the players are breaking the game and the DM can't control it to the point of saying "hey, we're removing Fly", then there are much bigger problems than any game can fix. I mean, seriously, you guys that had repeated problems with Fly being abused... did the DM just complain about it and the...

I gave my definitions earlier, so not sure what you're waiting on? Are you expecting the internet to agree on something? Because... it may be a while...

I think "gold piece value" is fine in the abstract, since you need SOME measure of universal wealth I think, and it's always fun to have a huge pile of coins... That said, residuum stored in magical gems that empower a magic item is superior thematically for magic item creation. In the same...

Well, as I said above, in 3e you could easily have enchanted that ancestral blade and continued to advance it. Sure you might have to trade an NPC mage some of that other stuff you got in the dungeon, but the option is there. I much prefer the treasure to have the party in mind also. Granted...

I guess the thing for me is, it bypasses a great many sucky encounters. So you're 5th level and managed to avoid the ogre encounter....fine. Who wanted to fight ogre's anyway? Oh, okay, the plot says the ogre's have satchels that contain rare herbs you need. Wait, the ogre's live in caves? Well...

The way I see it, if it was a major problem, 3.5 would have "fixed" it, rather than adding the warlock with permaflight. Compare it to the Warforged. A vocal portion felt that Warforged immunities removed such hindrances also. You couldn't starve a party anymore! You couldn't have an chasm in a...

My problem is, the site's reliability right now doesn't even let me follow the threads I've already been in, so it's hard to find new interesting threads in the time between board crashes.

I think the idea is more that they want it to serve as a transition device from WoW to D&D. As I've remarked before, it's not so much that 4e is WoW, but the book has a lot of elements where they seemed to have written it as a guide on converting from WoW to D&D. Everyone seemed to like older...

Never played Warhammer, Shadowrun had plenty of shapechanging. I've avoided FanPro stuff since they drove me away at the end of SR3, so can't judge current stuff. Shadowrun was a good example for the debate though, since 2 & 3 lacked options in the core that had upgraded the previous editions...

For me, a lot of 4e feels like they didn't start serious design until they'd announced it, or somesuch. Lots of early sneakpeeks were invalidated, and a lot of systems didn't get done. While I'm sure some stuff was held back so they could make money on followup books, I think some stuff (like...

I see three different kinds of "Complete"; 1) A complete RPG (ready to play and have fun with): 4e fits here I'm sure. 2) A complete Fantasy RPG (ready to play with the fantasy tropes intact) Here is where I think 4e fails. Lacking many of the elements that make high fantasy (and with such a...

I agree with you, and I don't debate what it does. My problem is that it means the random treasure (whether through dice roll, DM fiat or pregen adventure) is now a serious hurdle to playing a character concept that you may have developed. As an example, the 3e samurai with his ancestral daisho...

It's not a 180, you just ignore everything that doesn't fit your arguement. Right, if the game designer says "Grapple is on the way", you should stick to "grab is the new grapple!" even though it's just you. There are no facts, even what is considered "the grid" is a matter of debate. Since...

So you recognize the difference between 3e flight and 4e flight. I've since qualified it and you continue to argue against the original quick statement I made in the original post in between EN's crashing. I didn't make a list of debating points, just showed some of the fantasy elements that...

I assumed the DMG had a lot more info in it? I only have the PHB to judge by so I didn't bother commenting. My gnome badger riding paladin didn't look likely either way...

No, it's not. They already said that Grapple will be added later, and you keep using grab as an example. Grab is not grapple, it's not a replacement for it, grapple will come later. You understand what I meant, as you use the more freeform Flight as an example of what you didn't like. You're...

Isn't that my point? That they removed something troublesome, but the fix isn't until later? 3.5 grapple was bleh, but it was mostly the extra's that made it unbearable. Again, grab isn't grapple, they've already said Grapple will come later. A dismissive antagonistic tone does not mean...

The faulty assumption there is that WotC wouldn't have it's own legal staff, or legal opinions outside of the Will Of Hasbro. In a corporate environment, where profit is the motivation, it doesn't mean Hasbro said "hey, you must curb the OGL!", they probably didn't even know what the OGL was.

Grab is not grapple, it's been discussed before. From what I recall grapple will be presented on or before the monk. 4e Flight is like 4e Featherfall, curbed to the extent of being thematically worthless in the setting. Rituals are decent, though some of the costs seem odd. They're a nice...