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Right, in addition to the very game world concrete differences in weapons and rituals training, there's one other important game world difference I could think of beyond potentially recognizable powers: The Cleric's Healing Word power spends the target's healing surges. The Paladin's Lay on...

The setting I liked best was Al-Quadim, but I'd have to think about it a little bit to say exactly why I liked it best.

I was just about to mention the fighter's combat challenge.

As one of the posters who made that equivocation I feel I should explicate some things. First, I'm not a parent, and this wasn't an argument presented to me by any of the parents I know. Second, I am frequently a DM and like you and your group I have to pick and choose what distractions we...

From a critical as well as pedantic perspective Pawsplay is correct. Any attempt to move beyond this point is more or less an exercise in reifying one's own prejuidices. From the perspective of the writer or the literary audience as a whole there is no necessity to any of the claims brought...

Business to Business. Clerics go out and help the community. Paladins help the temple and are more directly specialized in opposing threats to the institution like monsters or wicked cults.

Clerics are retail, Paladins are BtB. On a more serious note, I think there are a lot of ways to handle their differences, but one thing I think is clearly significant is that Clerics get the free ritual casting feat where Paladins start with training in the heaviest armor in the game and...

Some quick bits of tactical advice: Don't get too far away from the Leader - you get more from quick access to your healing surges than other players. Do your best to protect the wizard - for that purpose your targets should be mobile minions, nasty defenders, and strikers in that order...

I actually very much enjoy playing with kids around the table. I think it's a nice way to let parents in without sticking them with the additional burden of babysitting, and, well, people are going to get distracted anyway IMO it's better to have a parent get distracted by redirecting a kid...

Batman's initial characterization (essentially James Bond in Costume) is very different from the way the character came to be defined over the history of its run. It's not at all fair to claim the standards of the time have changed based on this character when the character changed so much and...

Tales is a good book. And may end up being a pretty primary source for any Arabian Adventures I do. My copy of Al-Quadim is missing. Fortunately, I still have the Sha'ir's handbook.

Weapons of the Gods has at least 2 books out, and is awesome. Nobilis is only one book, but is most certainly a system. Neither are particularly big. Earthdawn deserves a shout out. As to the Default Adventure Question: Exalted: Step 1 - I am a super cool dude or lady. Oh God, Something I...

I agree, but in the case of monsters the terms work really well. Monsters have a lot more variety then PCs and I need the tactical short hand. At some point there may be enough classes for 4E that the role terms will be a really functional piece of vocabulary for describing a party, but with 8...

I was with you up until this point. The Modern era is plenty warlike, we just have new categories for how that warfare works. The semantics, tactics, and propaganda have changed but the violence is still there. At the same time, human societies are at least as much about alliances as...

Well, I think what you should really aim for in a Martial Controller is something like the Sappers in Erickson's Malazan series, but until they release alchemy rules that's just a dream.

I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with a melee based controller, but I think the role really discourages it. Controllers must: A.) Make lots of attacks in a single round, none of these attacks can be real spikes. B.) Controllers can't have consistent good defenses and probably...

Considering that the quintessential tragic figure is a guy who killed his father and married his mother - 'You don't want to know what they call Oedipus in Harlem' to paraphrase Woody Allen - I don't really think you can hold up tragedy as a complementary category. If the basic emotional...

Yay! Ceptu & Fausts, now with at will powers!

Ya know, there's nothing I love better than calls for plain English. It can double for populism or elitist xenophobia it's got a thousand and one uses! It's the best sort of pseudo-anti-intellectual code. Certainly, I can understand having a problem with a specific term, but let's not throw the...

Carcassone Cataan El Grande Games with variable maps, trading, scoring, and downplayed agonistic components versus something like Risk or Monopoly. Which isn't to say they aren't competitive. A husband and wife I know refer to Carcassonne as divorce in a box. The term Eurogame came to have...