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I like to believe we're all more ethical than that... doesn't necessarily make it true, but it's what I like to believe. About the warlord, well, I'm not sure. Some interesting ideas but when I introduced Bo9S into my last campaign the crusader didn't work out very well, so I'm concerned (since...

Since the people who are saying, "well, if you weren't using squares before you'll be fine without them now" seem to mostly consist of people who only ever play using squares, I'm frankly not sure what their opinion is worth. Game designers or not. I will wait until I see the book myself before...

For some reason I can't use the quote function right now. Anyway, someone said, "I don't see how you can have fun when you're worrying about how things work". Well, to answer the implied question. Firstly, I multitask. Just like rolling the dice or remembering the rules, thinking about how...

I'm not a big 'trap' person and I don't usually do dungeon crawls. But they do come into the game. In fact universally 100% of safes in all my games ever have been trapped... and that's about it. But the people who can afford safes love their sophisticated traps. Generally I remember to put...

Well, I probably won't play 4e at this stage but it would be a human wizard.

Not only would I not do this, but I'm tempted to sell my collection of the entire Exalted 2e product line and use the profits to buy some unloved D&D 3.5 books out of sheer bloody-mindedness. Turn about is fair play after all. This has me annoyed.

I'm sorry if that was unclear. I'm at work and it took me about 15 minutes to even write those few sentences I managed. Things are a little quieter now so I'll try to be clearer. A videogame frequently involves a repetition of the strategy, with entertainment coming from exercising your...

I'm of two minds on this subject. Firstly, if I describe a soldier walking along crippled (perhaps for the PC cleric to heal, whatever), then I'd like such an event to be achievable in the rules. Events "off camera" should run by the same rules as the events "on camera". I also think that a...

While I appreciate making battles unique and memorable, I use TV shows and novels more than video games as my basis. Nothing particularly against video games, but they're not really my style.

I avoid the situation myself by not using miniatures or 4th edition (probably). If I were using miniatures I would do it with a full terrain and measure the distances with a tape-measure, failing that I would use hexes. If for some reason I was required to use a grid I'd use the 1-2-1-2 or...

5 and 10 pretty accurately describe my concerns. For me the game is less about what the book is and more about what I can make of it. 3e was much better than 2e + my house rules. (hell it even included most of my house rules as the new cannon). 4e is not better than 3e + my house rules (from...

Actually for many of us the question is, do I continue to play 3.x with 8 years of house rules or switch to 4e. Every time I see WOTC bragging about "Look we've fixed this", I shrug and think "But I fixed that myself years ago". I strongly disagree. I've seen nothing of the sort, have you...

Coming up with IC explanations has never been a big problem for me and it's something I've been doing since I first starting D&D with the basic set. I'm bothered by the same questions most of the players ask, so I come up with answers of my own for the questions. In fact I'll usually come up...

Well I personally think of it as "Tee-eff-ling", though I'll sometimes pronounce it a little differently if I'm trying to roleplay a character with an accent. I also usually say "El-Eh-Drin" though I'm pretty sure that's not the usual pronunciation.

I was referring to lava exposure. My priority on this one is when I run a D&D game for people who have never played it before and they eagerly exercise their creativity saying "I try to knock the orc down to the ground" that I don't have to say, "Sorry, you can't do that". Well that's how 3.x...

Oh sorry. My example was a random selection of something people discuss a lot. I actually quite like healing surges. For the record the only things I dislike (that I can think of right now) are: 1) Tripping is a special ability. 2) Use of the word Spaces for measurement. 3) 1-1-1 movement. 4)...

Why I dislike this rule: I play a lot of games with people who are new to the system or to gaming in general. Usually, rather than teach them the whole system before we start I just help them make a character and we start playing, with me teaching them the rules as we go. There's nothing I...

No, I agree. The rules could turn out to be completely different from what I think they will be. There are some things right now that I plan on houseruling, but it could easily be different in the final version than I imagine. However, I will most certainly house rule any instant death effect...

One thing that has emerged in this thread is the question, "If you don't like 4e, why are you complaining, it's coming anyway?". I think it's a valid question so I'll answer it myself. I love D&D, it's one of my main hobbies and it's something I spend a lot of time on. I have since I was 9...

In that circumstance my players would try disbelieving the illusion, they know I'm obsessive about internal logic. Or they would if it weren't for the fact that this is one of the many things I will be house-ruling should I ever decide to run D&D 4e.