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It's really not. The choices are the same, just with a different label on the tin. "Fighter w/ Champion" is the Slayer (or Weaponmaster Fighter w/ certain builds) slightly watered-down, "Fighter w/ Sharpshooter" is the watered down Ranger, "Fighter w/ Sentinel" is just the watered down...

Perception is a funny thing. A lot of the 4E mechanical design is still there if someone takes the time to actually look, Wizards just obfuscates it through terminology and lessened efficiency rather than clear, concise communication. Why would they not intentionally incorporate 4E design? In...

The thing is, they're really not, they're just somewhat watered-down and the terminology curtain has been restored. Barbarians are striker-light, the Sentinel is defender-light, the Warlock is striker-light, etc. In other words, they don't do their thing as well as they did, not that they don't...

You didn't 'hear of all the classes, yet you continually bash in the ENWorld-standard passive-aggressive with extreme ignorance. Pure hypocrisy. You are not the bastion of D&D purity and your comments show that directly.

1. So how well supported do players feel with no (or almost no) options given (ala 1E/2E Fighters)? 2. If players think their only options are the written ones, a player problem, then how does giving them no options help?

The 4E take was my favorite race in the game ever. That would be my hope.] I like the dozen+ subraces we eventually had, being able to conform to any of the worlds/planes the adventure occured. I'd expect Wind/Fire/Earth/Water and maybe Storm initially.

Yeah, in 3E fighters sucked, unless someone else could immobilize monsters next to you in order to get off full attack sequences, and even then itterative attacks weren't all that great in many cases.

So giving them better tools to do the things they've always tried to do while having flexibility to do other things is "very restrictive"? :erm::erm:

Yeah, although Hood went Wile E. Coyote with the assault against Chayton. The look on Job's face while he was messing around was priceless. Siobhan unfortunately wasn't too unexpected. Characters who learn of Hood's past are often not long for the show. I like that Hood and Proctor are...

Yeah, the term "meat shield" was used back in the day and most DMs I ever played with "went for the squishies" with any even semi-intelligent enemy. Wizards tried to "shape the battlefield" while Clerics "buffed and healed" the party. The rogue moved around trying to get in a "sneak attack/big...

Also, just because the list so far is extremely limited, why not expand it yourself? Powerful Primordials like Kossuth, Akadi and Yan-C-Bin, for example, would make interesting patrons. Heck, reflavoring the infernal pact for Kossuth makes more sense than it does for its current patron list...

This is really not true. You lose on DEX saves (far more prevalent than STR saves), DEX Skills and Initiative while being stuck with heavy armor. 5e is pretty limited so far in scope and versatility.

Patently false. MMORPG's got their roles from D&D. They were trying to actually have the "classes" do what they had always tried to do and were giving them ways to actually do it better/easier.

Just because you didn't see them doesn't mean they weren't there. One of the big things 4E did was "pull back the curtain" and give some characters (mainly non-casters) to tools to actually do what they'd always been trying to do. So your Fighter never stood on the front line, directly facing...

Not only that, but look at the quotation marks. I'm surprised Morrus linked an "article" that is not only edition warring, but places the words in such a place as to make them seem attributable to an industry person rather than the writer, who injects his own bias in to what was touted as an...

We're now in to Season 3 of the Cinemax series about a thief who spent 15 years in prison and is now impersonating a murdered sheriff in the small town of Banshee, PA where his former girlfriend created a fake identity and is nowmarried to the DA. If you haven't watched it and like gritty pulp...

Dead of Winter and Eldritch Horror are my current faves. I just tried Mice & Mystics and that may have promise, but needs the expansion after a couple of plays, I think. Arkham, BSG and Shadows Over Camelot are still in play also and Roboinson Crusoe is on the list to try. A lot of folks are...

I tried to watch it, I wanted to like it, but it was just complete buffoonery by a guy with the charisma of a spiked-chain enema.

"Hi, we're here to promote a movie full of cuteness that will either end in a crappy happy cliche or rip your heart out and stomp on it mercillessly. Enjoy."

My Mom's mother made a family dish of dried corn. Basically, corn kernals were roasted dry and stored in a cotton sack until ready to be eaten, sometimes years later. They're then re-constituted with cream. I nevr ate is as a kid but my aunt has the sack and still had some of teh corn which we...