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The whole list makes me happy, but this reasonable, long-overdue change makes me positively elated. I'm really looking forward to the Essentials improvements over the next year or so.

Kinda like the Blaster I proposed in post 27--cantrips and a narrow band of powers that increase in range, effectiveness and damage as the character levels up. And it doesn't have to be damage based--make an Illusionist by creating a small set of illusions that grow in range and power as the...

I thought feats were going to lose tier designations, but tiers are still in there. Maybe I'm mistaken about that, but if not, I wonder how long it will take to finish adding all the Essentials info.

This last line is a bit dramatic, especially since your examples have nothing to do with the case at hand. Does your grocery store provide stoves and cutting boards? No. And there's no one forcing game stores to provide gaming areas, either--thats their choice. In fact, I would find it very...

I'm not a nuts and bolts rules guy, and no math wiz, and this is just off the top of my head, so I'm sure I'm missing some obvious balance issues, etc, here, but couldn't a simple 4e caster look something like this: The Blaster Blasters can cast cantrips at will, and can cast a number of...

I never said I thought anyone was being untruthful, and since we're speculating here, let's see if we can think of some alternatives: Maybe those quoted were mistaken at the time., or were misquoted. Or whats more likely, maybe things changed after those particular quotes were given--there...

So, in other words, you're going to just take a wild guess, too, but guess the opposite conclusion? Just wondering how you know this is true. On the contrary, it seems to me that (in this case) people love to think of Hasbro as "evil corporate suits" and WotC as "evil corporate suits who...

I agree that a simplified, basic-level character sheet would be a lot of help in introducing new players to the game, but (as others have mentioned), most players are just that--"introduced" to the game, by someone who knows how to play and loves it. And really, although Paizo and WotC can try...

I play 4e both and Pathfinder, and it seems to me that Pathfinder fans will help get the word out because they love of the game--me included. Word of mouth can be very powerful, and I talk up Pathfinder as much as I can, in part because it doesn't have the name recognition of D&D, and...well...

Prognostication fail. There's no way.

I agree that intuition is not logic, but I don't see what that has to do with the case at hand. Maybe you're working with a different definition than I am, but it seems to me that using 'intuition' here implies that I'm working off a hunch or gut feeling, which I'm not, because if someone sends...

I was mostly with your logic, (minus the snark), until here. If the person sending the magic missile made the attack, then it seems logical to say that when the missile hits, the person sending the missile hit with the attack. To the OP, if damage taken by an enemy is Thunder damage, and...

This is interesting--you seem to know a lot about the business situation over at WotC, their strategies and, perhaps more importantly, their feelings about their strategies. Where do you come by your information? Sorry if I should know this already, but are you a WotC employee?

Of course you should allow it. All of these posts about "if you play a Wizard, then those are the mechanics of the game, etc." are hogwash, frankly. D&D is, and has always been, a malleable system that you can change however you wish. So to paraphrase another poster: be the DM, and do what...

I'm creating a war wizard, who specializes in Thunder and Cold powers, but I'm toying with the idea of making him purely a Winter Warlock/Mr. Freeze type, and just piling on all of the appropriate Cold based powers, items, and feats. I'm a little wary of putting all of my elemental eggs in one...

Thanks for the responses. Guess I'll have to pass. Bummer.

I'd like to pick up the Red Box for my son, but I'm a bit confused after reading a few of the threads about it: --It sounds like the RB more or less uses the Essentials ruled, but with some differences. Is it supposed to be Essentials-based, or a hybrid of some sort? --If the discrepancies...

But doesn't the removal of tier requirements significantly alter characters development as they level up? And you could keep the level requirements in your game, but its not really presented as an option--its presented as "this is how feats work now". I mean, for someone like me, who likes to...

But from what I've read, there are other changes as well--Feat organization, for one. So I think the questions that we're all going to be answering for ourselves are: how do you define "change" vs. "option", and how many changes would it take, (or how large would a change have to be), to tip...