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The evolution of the game has been toward combat/simulationist, but I am happy to see it devolve back to a more rp/explorer type of game. Coming full cycle on this.

I liked point 3 : Divine Spells are subtle. Gives a clear definition of what divine magic is meant to do as opposed to arcane. Clerics and Mages are defined by the spells they cast, and when those lines blur and cleric spells can most of the things arcane spells can, I just see no reason for...

Ditto here. Havent calc'd xp for years now and am never looking back. Since the modern convention is one xp advancement chart for all classes, characters (/should) level at about the same time, meaning XP is just bookkeeping. Much prefer to simply advance characters at the appropriate point in...

This this and this. The whole "should a rogue be an adventurer or a combatent" really boils down to this. It fights take up 90% of game time, yea, play the fighter in leather, if combat is 50% of the time, you could easily play the combat support/adventurer and still have an interesting...

I just prefer the term "crusader". That way hes "A guy with a religion based focus" and what you do within that is so much more adaptable. * You dont have to be good. Evil crusader is perfectly feasible (Im on a crusade to wipe out the God of fluffy bunnies!), allowing it to be adapatable to...

Cant XP ya soz. Ah well... This is my experience as well exactly. I actually pulled out some video of when I was a younger man around the time 3e first came out. Sure enough, me an my friends sitting at the table, with me going on about 3e multiclassing as if it was the best thing to happen to...

No-one is stopping people from playing 4e creatively. No-one. I loved it in our 4e campaign when a players sealed a cave entrance by using muscle to move rock over the entrance (athletic test) then using Ice Storm to seal it. Yay! Go Players! But here is the thing, I haven't read one post that...

We did this analysis at one stage also. We actually had a 3rd role...the "Insidious Mind" (Which we just referred to as the IM). Its the part of the DM that is the proxy for the opposition. So with kobolds for instance, its the part that dictates where they put the traps, how they did ambushes...

Im good and bad on this use of themes. One the one hand it provides a very versatile mechaism for character definition that is easy for players to latch on to an conceptualize final intended result. On the other hand, if this is what themes are what you do outside of combat it sorta dooms...

Finally, a use for Charisma!

In all fairness, what you are assuming is that they will continue to into 5e. If they are balanced out correctly, this is a moot point.

Ya know, I remember a player proposing to me doing random stats when we were creating our 4e characters. I said to him that we would never go back to that bad decision again. Now... Attributes are meant to define your character. The problem with point buying is that there is such things as...

To me it does work if your detach all modifiers from init and treat it as totally random. Can make for a more interesting, less predictable combat experience IMHO. I have often thought about removing stat bonus's from to hit rolls as well. The problem with it is not removing the stat bonus from...

Where is my cookie jar? In the mean time I would also like to add for us hacks in the audience that the app must have some capacity for communication. Every player in our group owns an iOs device. I want that in game information is synchronized such that every device is up to date and using one...

Seconded

Initiative. Old nugget that it is. Assuming we continue using initiative to resolve combat (a fairly good assumption) I sorta wanted to run something passed all concerned. Since initiative was first linked to stats it has been based on dex i.e. roll 1d20 plus dex bonus. I get why. Dex =...

Ooo, that sent a shiver up my spine. An actual use for Charisma other than dump stat, party sacrificial chat-monkey or obscure class requirement!

One time in the 2e days we thought "Vancian sucks, lets develop a mana equivalent" and we did. Then, a month or two later, we brought back Vancian. It was just too dull to watch mages spam fireballs! True story, but I digress... I don't think Vancian is the best possible solution out there. But...

One of the items on our "what would have made 4e faster" items was action economy. Loved it, but when you had players micro-managing what they could do in a round, it was a slowing factor (amongst many, fully acknowledged). I would have actually preferred one less action per turn, that being...

Yes, but you need to be a certain level to cast a fireball, and the current indication is that you can jack it up by casting using "higher spell slots". So, whether we are talking about a casters level contributing to spells being more powerful because they scale with caster level, or because...