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Well, it is a ritual, and you do need to invest some money in it. Maybe it can also only be done in special places with the permission of the right people. As long as you're clear about that up front you can make it as special as you want it to be. Yeah, I seem to have lucked into a group of...

Have you had time to get back to it yet? :) I'm interested in seeing what you had to say.

What I've always enjoyed about D&D is that it was a pretty good excuse for getting together with other people who were okay with pretending to hack around a dungeon. Sometimes we wouldn't even play D&D, we'd get caught up in a ridiculously huge mix of Munchkin or the more cerebral guy would make...

Well, if you look at it as shorthand for "if you miss, this is what happens" it kinda makes sense but it shows up on every power, even the ones where if you miss, you, uh, miss. Maybe just put a Graze: entry on those sorts of powers, and then you can reword evasion to say like "if you're grazed...

From what your posts have been thus far, I think this is what I see. 1) Damage can be either wounding or concussive. 2) Only Divine-sourced healing powers can remove wounds. (alternately, Martial-sourced healing powers cannot remove wounds.) 3) Therefore, damage can have been wounding only if...

I agree 4E has some vocabulary problems. But IIRC as was said about 3E some of the vocabulary choices are as a result of an attempt to maintain or reflect gaming culture. If they renamed hit points "concussion points" and healing surges "recovery surges" and called dead characters "beyond help"...

Well, there's free reign and then there's analysis paralysis. Social skill challenges are already gamey, but if you want to paint some sim on top of the original skill roll, you could say something like: "The skill you choose represents your posture, or your initial approach to a large-scale...

That risks being a little too arbitrary and unresponsive. I mean, imagine your rogue's face when you just draw "indifferent" all through a giant bustling metropolis, and then drawing Rogue Trader when you're at some dirt farm in the sticks. My initial instinct goes something like this, but...

Or because we play one edition instead of another because we can do more fun things in it? Yeah, I know, that sounds crazy. Everybody knows game system choices stem from fundamental moral failings and corporate brainwashing. It's funny you should mention that. I have a player who can...

Oh, that sounds like a corruption corpse. Did he screw up your melee attacks when you got close to him? He's not boss-class unless he got some kind of extra build like a warlock class add-on or something, but he does have about 2 levels on the other monsters in that encounter.

I'm wondering if you understand what you're talking about, in terms of logic. Go back to wherever you learned about ad ignorantiam and reread it carefully. It's a double-edged sword. You can't call something true because it hasn't been proven false, but you also can't call something false...

If you say yes, they ask for more stuff. If you say no, they ask for more stuff. If they're going to keep asking for stuff anyway, why not find a way to give it to them? At least then they're happy. "You want a gun-sword? Sure thing. This little beauty here may look like an ordinary flaming...

You can do that? I don't see a report button on the post, which is what I'm used to.

I play 4E with a group of friends over the internet. We chat on Skype and use GameTable for the minimap. This is what I like about it: - I can't roll dice within a confined space to save my life, and like to double-check and triple-check mental addition. Having an impartial agency roll the dice...

I'd like to point out that 4E introduced a slight way around this. Consider a fighter hitting something. In addition to damage that something is marked. That means when the DM takes his turn he will likely try to have that monster attack the fighter. The fighter has affected the combat and he...

...the pendant also affects his phoenix? Does that fit your story? Perhaps when he breathes fire he is actually nudging his new shoulder-dragon and it is doing it for him.

I don't understand why you say this. In 4E, you can recover from any blow that doesn't kill you outright unaided with 5 minutes' rest, assuming you have enough healing surges. This means that over the course of combat any damage you take cannot reflect injuries that would take more than 5...

Okay then, put up or shut up. Let us say that I have just said the moon is made of cheese. Point out what makes that argument wrong WITHOUT, and this is important, making a counterargument. You are free to define "counterargument" however you wish, but be advised that MY definition is...

Well, that's because it is. For me. And it's haaaaaaaaard :p to go back and find all the places where I should have added that. Also as has been hinted at before I want responses, and I don't believe I will get them if I qualify my positions because it will look like I'm setting up defenses...

Well, here's the thing. If I'm next to you in initiative order, waiting for my turn to step and cleave, how am I going to feel about your turn involving all the augmented beasties? Complexity is best when it's orthogonal to the game, when you can explore it without taking up everyone else's...