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I could see a frightened, unproficient user clutching a knife with two hands for steadiness. Not really the same thing though.

I have a garage with a lot of different cars in there and depending on the mood I'm in and where I need to go I might choose a different car for a particular trip. D&D is one of my favourite brands, they've brought out a lot of good cars over the years and I have several of them in my garage...

And they did so poorly IMO. Actually I agree. I like simple use of the 3e multiclassing/prestige rules, not leaping about like a frantic grass hopper. I absolutely hate the idea of builds and I think they go against everything that multiclassing is about. Multiclassing is about being free to...

There's a big difference between the business of roleplaying games and the actual hobby itself. The truth is that I could roleplay for the rest of my life without ever buying another RPG book ever again. The only reason that I don't is that I like buying RPG books. Not only could I use the ones...

This is why the 2nd edition PHB has the "Waiting at Death's door" rule which lets you go to -10 hit points. Yes it's marked as an optional rule, but so is everything in the PHB. Everyone I know uses this optional rule and 3rd edition simply removed the optional tag from it.

This is why I used a modified version of the resurrection mishaps table from heroes of horror.

Iterative attacks which featured 2 attacks 1 round, 1 attack the next, then 2 attacks again. Awkward multiclassing/dualclassing rules. Limited extra options for characterisation with no prestige classes, no feats. Saving throws were very specific with a lot of overlap, for example...

And it gets worse. You're capturing a spellcaster who is granted their abilities at the whims of powerful extra-planar beings. Even if you convince the cleric to perform the spell, unless the deity is willing no magic will happen.

Many friends of mine continue to play 2e. Some of them are willing to play 3.x to find a group other are not, yet all of them claim (and I believe them) to prefer 2e. They will probably continue to happily play it for the next decade. If 4e comes out and doesn't win me over then I will follow...

I hope I'm not the only one with a vision of Miracle Max over a dead body going, "Hello in there, what's so important here, what have you got that's worth living for?" (The resurrection scene from the Princess Bride)

Could be good depending on how they do it. This is one of the first really positive things I've seen from 4e. Not enough to change my mind yet, but it's a step in the right direction.

I agree that this is a "bone to simulationism". Not necessarily a great one, but it's a valiant try and at least they made the effort. Still it's not to my liking. Anyway I've never had a problem with raise dead and I'm more simulationist than anything else.

To be honest I don't know what you mean here.

Well, I'd class myself as skeptical and wary, not planning on changing to the new edition until I'm convinced that it's a better choice rather than "proudly anti-4E", still it's a valid question. I started playing OD&D which I liked. I saw 2nd edition, was excited, read it, liked it and...

No, I assumed you meant figuratively. In fact I have players literally fall asleep in my sessions all the time, but that's because we get to game very rarely and so play for 15 hours straight when we can all get together on the same night without work the next day. Someone falling asleep is...

Okay, as I understand it the 4e fighter gets these spells they can cast once each per encounter and a couple of others they can cast per day and a few they can cast at will. However these spells are the only interesting thing they can do other than an attack roll. This is cool and all, (I love...

I'd be willing to buy a 1 book system in that kind of situation, probably not a 3 book system. Then again if I bought the PHB and it was really really good I might grab the other two books. (Which as it stands is better than my current stance which is that I won't buy 4e at all).

Damnit... I didn't mean Egoist, I meant... base class from XPH, not psion, not soulknife, sounds similar to Egoist. Damn, can't remember. They get wild surges for their powers. (Psionics is not my best field of Knowledge: D&D). And we used the magic rating rules from unearthed arcana so the AT...

This is a serious problem if it happens, I agree. You must have been playing a different game to me. Or my entire game was that 10% and I left all the bad 3.x gaming to everyone else (sorry guys)... I never experienced that. I've had a player happily play half-elf pure fighter to 12th level...

I apologize, I phrased that more rudely than I should have. I was more referring to the designers though. Well perhaps you've seen more of the game than I have, I hadn't thought enough was released to say either way personally. (Then again I wasn't at the DDXP and haven't kept up with the...