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Wait...you mean as elitist as this? Or worse? I can't decide. Anyway people, lets get down from the high horses and stop it before people sling mud and call names and get the thread closed. Henry recently remarked he felt the forum had become a bit nicer again, lets not prove him wrong here. :)

Ah, it's easy to see why 4E will be a simplified version. The "it's magic, don't question it" argument applies to movement quirks now as well as to pressureless explosions, flying overweight lizards with flame breath, vertical lightning and weird races without consistent ecologies. If you read...

Yep, as long as you simply handwave geometric inconsistencies away (or are able to imagine playing in a non-euclidean world) and view a complete overhaul of positional and movement advantages based on relative direction towards the enemy as minuscule. As for "easy houseruling"...I think the...

On the contrary, but in order to not have to repeat the whole shebang again, I'll simply point you over to the thread Reaper Steve cited in his OP for an in-depth discussion of the topic, and maybe an idea why I don't agree with your view about the rules change, or the description of the...

Yep, I perfectly agree there. It's simply one more step towards D&D: The Boardgame, the multimedial tactical online-tabletop-dungeoncrawl battlegame. :lol:

And that's exactly the attitude missing in a lot of people, and which would make chatting here a lot nicer and friendlier. And not just here...Dragonsfoot could use a dose of tolerance as well. Actually, I believe most RPGers could use a shot of that now and then, me included, but that's a...

Actually, that's an implication the reader puts there himself, which is what Wolfspider is tying to point out. This "might not be the game for me" doesn't mention D&D in any former edition, it simply talks about "the game for me". He might have compared to Shadowrun, Amber Diceless, Warhammer...

GAH! Thanks for correcting me. Indeed, it looks like the translator for the Red Box back then used the wrong unit! :confused: Damn, there go my childhood fantasies. :lol:

Can't speak for other european players, of course, or anybody who started "recently", but I recall the german Red Box measuring distances in the german equivalent of feet (Elle, for those interested :lol: ), with 10 Ellen = 3 meters. This basically trained me and everybody I played with to...

I'm afraid I'm guilty of using it in my adventures on a very regular base, once quite literally in a Shadowrun adventure where the group had stumbled over an injured courier whose injury had disabled the security switch-off for his cortex bomb that was activated when the courier was bashed up by...

To answer the original post, I think a "solution" is dependent on the playstyle of the group. A group that prefers dungeon-crawling in the "exploratory adventure" paradigm will usually try to find a safe spot and rest as soon as the resources are low enough to demand recharging. How long before...

As a piece of friendly advice...there's at least half of your first post that will not sit well with the general preferences in friendly and uninsulting posting that are carried around here at the very least by the moderators of the board. Especially blanket insults like those aimed towards the...

Better get a steel helmet, Psion...people will jump up and down on your head and call you "elitist gamer" and other pretty names for that.

Wow, now the OP has started second-guessing and cross-questioning the posters as well. I think the thread can be savely labeled "Titanic" now and be left before the icebergs show up. :lol:

In the first picture? Yes, the monster, or rather its area of combat control is orthogonal to the grid (meaning the illustrative measuring grid in the red area is aligned with the grid of the battlemap). In the second picture, the area is diagonal to the grid of the battlemap. The grid of the...

Wow. Leave the board for a few hours, and peaceful thread where people were stating their opinions and reasons why they (most likely) won't switch has turned into a full-blown edition war thread, complete with an ignored moderator's reminder to take the side discussions to their own thread...

Just to clarify...I didn't rotate the grid, or allow the monster to do so. I included the grid in the red area in order to show that the area is the same size in both pictures without forcing people to get out the ruler and try to measure it out on the screen. The area is, in both pictures, 15...

Okay, I've tried to get some diagrams together...can't say my graphic skills are up to the standards of this thread yet, but maybe I'll get there. :lol: Meanwhile, I hope they convey what I mean. Situation 1: A Huge monster controls/needs a space of 15'x15'. That is translated to 3 squares...

Come on guys, give the "is it reasonable" discussion a rest and let people go back describing WHY they will (most likely) not change (from the current point of view). It has been such a nice and peaceful thread before. :)

Sorry, I fear we're not going to come to terms on this one either. See, for me the combat area of a Huge creature is 15'x15', which is how I get it from the DMG. NOT 3x3 squares. It IS 3x3 squares when you align the border of the field (or a square mini base sized correctly) with the grid of a...