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That's 'cause I thought you could. Cool, that makes my ranged-attacking Wuxia-inspired Seeker slightly more awesome. What with it's ranged opportunity attacks not provoking from the person it's making them against.

No. If they're Close Blast/ Close Burst they don't provoke OAs however. Area and Ranged attacks do. Not certain, but I've always played that you can. Only if you have the one paragon path that lets you, or have the ability to make ranged attacks with a heavy blade (at-will) and have Heavy...

No, it's a sign of a player being an :):):):):):):), and the GM letting him. Then don't take it to the extreme. Be very simple. Let me give you an example of a simple, and obvious, solution: "You can't switch become an ally outside of an extended rest, and if you become an enemy you must...

What sort of weird corner cases? Give an example that would, or has, actually come up in a real game you've played. He's decided to take his chance, and thus would no longer willingly heal them. Thus, he's no longer treating them as allies. They get hit by the blast, realise it was...

Given as you can't buy uncommon and rare items, the disparity is a meaningless comparison. Also: No. If items are rare because no-one wants them, the disparity between purchase and sell will be big. That's common magic items, everyone can make them, no-one wants them that much. If items are...

A simple way to define who's an ally: If the one using the power would heal the other (and the other would accept that healing) they're allies. If they are adventuring together, they're probably allies. If the "ally" decides to reveal themself as actually a saboteur, then they stop being an...

How do you bring it up? Going "Oh, and I'm female by the way" every ten minutes? That sounds bloody irritating, and depending how it's done (ie. with comments like "and I adjust my bra") really rather creepy. Behaving feminine? (two of the three most feminine character's I've seen played have...

By RAW, Defiling works fine. By RAW, when "ally" or "allies" is used in the target block, it means willing allies. Nowhere else in the rules-text is mentioned, so, by strict RAW, allies only have to be willing when they're targets. Arcane defiling has "ally (willing or unwilling)" in its...

That deals only with the use of allies in the target line. Not the use of "allies" in the effect line, or in any other section of rules text. By RAI I meant: Rules As Intended. If you play Dark Sun and go "Oh, defiling has no downside, because my allies don't want to be hit by it" everybody...

With Dark Sun defiling specifically referring to "unwilling allies" I think that's become more clearly not RAI.

Maybe it's just my life experience (I've had friends who I thought were male turn out to be female and visa versa*); but I really don't think it IS that major a part of the character. It's more important than hair-colour, but it's not even close to the gap between a human and an elf. In an...

I'm still waiting for SC2. My gaming pc is broken, and I haven't got round to fixing it yet :p

Yep, it's working on me. And my main 4e GM. It's working on everyone I know who buys 4e books.

It isn't the number of die rolls, it's the ability of the party to make a difference, that matters to me. In 4e, those three saves? Your allies can rush up and give you extra chances to succeed, they can pull you out of danger, they can do all sorts of things to make you not die. With just one...

Without that save, the GM wouldn't have thought it was acceptable to put a snake with a "just die" attack in the room. The save ISN'T always a bonus tacked onto something that would be "just die", the save is often an excuse for including something which is, still, "just die", cleverly...

Hold: yes. Wield? No. Holding and wielding are very different. I can hold a sword in my mouth. I sure as :):):):) can't wield a sword in my mouth. My explanation would be: the lower arms are for carrying. They hold stuff. They're good at holding stuff. But when it comes to things like...

Then why would they prefer to have it removed from a system than have it added to a system? Are you being deliberately obtuse? When I play FPS games, I don't like getting hit. I like the possibility of being hit (otherwise I'd find a god-mode cheat). When I play D&D I don't like dying. I like...

Sexist portrayals are irritating, and dull... that enough distinction? And some male gamers. One of my friends is scared of breasts. It's hunk-alert. It's a combination of cheesecake and beefcake. Some people are put off by one or the other, some aren't. It doesn't really go by gender...

This isn't really analogous. There's a very big difference. Most of my players like the possibility of character-death. They don't like the actual instance of it, but they like the possibility. It makes the survival so much more interesting. All of my players (and going by your statements...

If players in general don't want save or die effects (as you're suggesting) wouldn't it make sense not to have save or die effects in a game that's trying to get a big audience?