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Story? Seriously? Your worried that the story is lacking. Its as simple as this. The story is just a little icing on the cake. This is Diablo...its hack n Slash people. The point is reveling in your characters constant ability to grow and push further and further up the difficulty chain. To...

They do? I didnt see anything that suggested this (at least in a character growth/non-equipment sense). Happy to be pointed at what does this, I really want to understand the probability mechanics of this area properly.

For my part I wasnt trilled about the HP rules Random,really? I dont mind random stats (with some compensation to avoid gimped charactsr) but random HP make me bletch. Its a preference thing I know. Level 1 : Fine, great. I hate having single digit HP at level 1. The game should be fatal, but...

I liked the way 4e took these sort of approaches too... Till we played it for a couple of years. Now I don't like them at all. Very happy with the approach 5 e is taking

Absolutely fine with them

Just to check I'm reading this right. Arc lightning sais you make an attack. So I look up make an attack and it sais that you make an attack roll and compare to AC. Are they saying that armor can protect from certain spells? Especially this case. I can wear full plate and that protects from...

I just cant believe people are still curious about the motivations for non-scaling. Those debates are months old and the logic and reasoning for making this change have been clearly stated and debated. If you dont know the reason for it, go back through the history of this forum alone, there is...

I dont disagree that there isnt a need to balance armor types, but you would at least expect that, given the fighter is MEANT to be durable and heavy armor is MEANT to be an advantage, that the imbalance should be in favor of heavy and not light. The "historical accuracy" bit. I for one would...

Correct me if Im wrong I thought they were getting a "modest" bonus as they leveled (fighters at least). Personally the scaling back of bonus's has been one of the biggest happy points of all of the innovations they have eluded to. I remember coming to the same conclusion half-way through our...

I see where you are coming from. This is the old "just give em tougher orcs" problem, or as I like to call it "oblivion syndrome". If you just keep throwing "equivelent" enemies/challenges at the players, there is no real sense of growth or advancement. This idea of putting them back to newb...

That is true, but it isnt something I ever really had a big problem with. Once in our 4e days our cleric had specc'd anti-undead to the extreme. I made sure that there were enough undead fights to justify his investment. I was happy for him to shine occasionally. Then for the next X encounters...

Nor would I ever suggest that should be the case. To focus on the rogue example, I would hope that rogues are defined by more than their ability to backstab. At the same time, I would hope players are not feeling so restricted in gameplay that they genuinely believe that that which is on paper...

I wish I could have voted for the ThriKreen more than once. There is not other insect based race and they are just so darn cool thematically. But thats just personnel biase, I can imagine saying that for most settings they are inappropriate. I just love em too much. Fun to play, especially a...

I havent read this whole thread, just going to respond to OP. Agreed on this one. The whole "everything effects everything" 4e'ism sounded so good on paper when we started playing, but it sort of lost its luster as play went on. To me, sometimes players SHOULD be at a disadvantage. Thats just...

Look, I stood there, I held my breath till my face went blue, but I never exploded dang nam it!

Actually, that is a very elegant solution. At the end of the day, races are very strongly tied to campaign. Look at darksun. Halfling were wild cannibal race, elves were a dishonored race distrusted throughout the land, dwarves were focus obsessed, and then they threw in races that were...

IT was close enough for me. None of what you posted here is wrong...and I dont care!!!! I enjoyed them for the reason that they were a close enough faximile of one of my most treasured fantasy images. Cant you let me have that? Cant you accept that someone has a different position to you? You...

You can post on forums. Everyone has that right. You DONT have the right to tell me my perceptions.

Ever since reading Dragonlance the Draconian(or the "Dragonman") has stood as fantasy staple in my mind. That it was introduced in 4e was an utter delight to me. LOVE dragonborn and I consider them a fantasy staple. Would hate to see them gone.

Ditto for me. I have poo-pooed 4e in alot of ways but this is one of the things 4e (IMO) got right. I got so sick and tired of 3e "there is a fight around the corner, lets stop the game and spend an hour sorting out buffs" and then "Has that spell run out? With the 15+ different things I had to...