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I really, really don't want to get into a GNS discussion. This is coming from somebody who's spent a lot of time debating and discussing it. Please, it's sell-by date is long expired. Take all the ideas you want as a foundation for your own theory, but please don't use it as is. :) Anyway, the...

There are tons of powers that do (stat modifier) damage on a miss. It's obviously part of the mechanics. It's a token amount of damage so that people don't feel like they whiffed so hard, or to provide an additional bonus. The idea that (stat modifier) damage should be read as 0[W] + stat +...

My favorite thing about skill challenges is that you can, if you want, leave the whole "which skills are relevant" thing to the players. I did this with a D20 Modern game way back where we abstracted an hours-long "plan an Ocean's Eleven-style infiltration" into a fast-paced narration of the...

PBartender, that could totally work and is absolutely plausible "in-fiction". The downside is, I think it breaks the economy. It creates a situation where you can turn magic items into free gold by winning a skill challenge. I do think that's fine, as long as there's other skill challenges you...

As an entirely separate point, remember 4e is also a game where the DMG encourages DMs to ask the players what sorts of magical items they'd want to have eventually, and then to place those in a future treasure parcel. I'm sure lots of people looked at that, said "Unrealistic, it's out", and...

Serious answer: 20% is the amount you get if you want to "just sell it", glossing over the transaction. Here's another way it could go: DM: You can get 1000 gold for it. Player: No way, I'm going to find a buyer who knows what this is worth. DM: Okay, sounds like you just made a quest for...

Mechanically, a Spellbook does two things: - holds rituals - holds your wizard encounter and daily powers, in that you have the ability to use a spellbook to swap out your daily load of Wizard powers. A character multiclassed into Wizard doesn't have ritual casting (if you take it as a...

Well, yeah, I think that's reasonable. This is not a game that gives in-depth "game world" explanations for how things happen. They're largely left up to the DM and the campaign group's consensus. I think it's safe to say that people who want the rulebook to give in-fiction explanation of how...

This is a pretty common interpretation of 4e in general, about a lot of things, not just spellbooks. I totally get why people think of it that way because the old versions just told you how it worked "in game", the new one really doesn't care as long as the mechanics fit your explanation. The...

Looks good apart from the fact that you just made an elf ranger who dual wields scimitars. ;) Seriously, though, you guys are dead on about the Ranger->Pit Fighter synergy, it looks fantastic.

You should do the quest where you find someone on the street who wants your book, convince them they should buy it from you rather than a store, and profit. I found out the hard way Intimidate is an auto-fail on those skill challenges, though. Although now that I think about it, magic items are...

All this problem means practically, is that all characters probably want to have 3 stats at decent levels (depending on class), and maybe one more at 13 or more. It's a pretty easy adjustment to make, just pretend that a stat of 13 in 4.0 is equivalent to 10-11 in 3.5, maybe? It kind of goes...

I think if they'd listed next to the minion type monsters in the MM the regular version of the same monster, and given a rough guideline on when to use the minion version versus the regular version, it'd have cleared up a ton of confusion. :) And the rules honestly do already explain that, it's...

There's not much point in picking at the individual issues when you can just boil it down to a design theme: It's a game. There are game-y mechanics. I think that's pretty cool and I'm looking forward to trying them out, but it's worth saying that, generally, that's why some of this stuff is...

The bag o' rats quote in the DMG totally applies to the "bring a zombie" plan in the first post -- it's the same thing. So by RAW the DM says "Um, the zombie you just let out of a bag isn't a credible threat, pick another target." Apart from all that, if you're fighting legion devils you're...

That's awesome. I'll assume the ritual in question acts as a scroll and the page crumbles into dust -- it's kind of the "Quickstart Guide" in the front of the DMG (Demon Mastery Guide). :) Alternately, a shard of a religious fragment, carved in stone, could be found in the ruined tomb of a...

City of Villians, in particular, is just hosed up since the last patch (lag, loading times through the roof, crashes, etc.) COH doesn't seem to be having quite as many problems, but they're likely from the same cause. I hate to say it, but you're probably best just not playing for a week or two...

I know you really believe that, I just have to disagree. I mean no offense. That bit where somebody posted "Huh? This whole thread was a guessing game?" a couple posts back? That seriously happens every time you make one of these threads. Every time. I'm not exaggerating. I gotta be honest --...

Back to the original topic, I kinda fail to see how yet more prestige classes or new kinds of dwarves would be "innovation", whether they were released for free or sold as small, low-price PDFs. You're still talking about fiddling with knobs and making minor changes. The open source software...

This is another reason why people are sad about not being able to ignorelist him anymore. I can think of at least four different times this year that I've seen this exact thread. God bless the poor guy, but he really thinks "guess-the-answer" is a valid form of debate. I know I wasted hours on...