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I'm also disappointed that they took the fighter, in theory one of the most flexible classes, and have seemingly turned it into the heavy-armor-wearing-guy-who-hits-stuff-up-close. You can say, "But he's a defender!", but that to me is more of an indictment of sticking so closely to the idea...

Well, good clerics and paladins deal more with good deities, the same way evil clerics and paladins deal with evil deities. Evil warlocks deal with evil outsiders the same way that good warlocks deal with good...oh...wait... That's another thing that surprises me. They opened up the paladin to...

Acid and cold? Lightning and force? Thunder and defense? Those aren't arbitrary? Really? We'll just agree to disagree on that. And no, I don't have better names for the styles, because I never would have created these styles of magic to have in the core rulebooks.

As I know I've pointed out many times in this sort of discussion before, the fey power source has been described by WotC as 'feral'. That doesn't really evoke images of the glittering pixie pulling pranks on the oafish half-orc. That's not to say WotC didn't mischaracterize the power sources and...

The discussion is probably better off without implications like that. Ok, so the discussion turns to why do we have six largely arbitrary styles of magic with names like 'Emerald Frost' and 'Golden Wyvern'? It's odd, because it seems like you're dismissing the "problem" because the "problem"...

The warlock being made core and seemingly still only drawing from dark power sources is easily one of my biggest disappointments for 4E. I'm sure there will be more options eventually like how they added draconic and celestial powers to the warlock via the dragonfire adept class and enlightened...

Tome of Battle. They took a bunch of martial maneuvers, which were very similar to spells, and split them up into nine fluffy distinctions based on "ancient martial disciplines". Those disciplines had names like Iron Heart and Diamond Mind. That seems to be the exact blueprint they're...

Random thoughts: Fighter - Traditionally my favorite class, and I generally like what I'm hearing. How much I like it will probably depend on the powers because there's a lot of maneuvers in in ToB that I loved but there also a lot that I hated. Rogue - I would have liked to have seen a rogue...

Yeah, certainly, not everyone is going to be happy no matter what. Isn't that the sign of a good compromise, though, when neither side is completely happy? :) I just think there's better ways of pleasing, or at least appeasing, more people than what WotC is currently doing. I think am's feats...

I really like this. I understand that WotC wants to inject some flavor into things. I just happen to think they are choosing the worst way of doing it in this instance. Something like the feat above seems like one of the best ways. There's definitely flavor there to spark the imagination of...

Honesty usually implies dealing with facts. You basically said that those with a different opinion than yours are dealing in ignorance, obsessive-compulsive, and are hung up on themselves. Those aren't facts. That's just derisive opinion cloaked as honesty in order to avoid accountability for...

Well there goes the whole keeping it friendly thing.

I couldn't agree more.

1) I didn't tell you to leave. 2) I never said no one should be able to criticize anything. I was talking about when criticizing something becomes eviscerating something. It's the difference between "I don't like this, I don't think it's a good idea" and "This is ridiculous. It's the most...

Often times that's wildly unproductive to a group setting. If you're going to openly eviscerate something in a group that contains many people who like whatever that something is, you can virtually guarantee nothing good will come of that despite how within your "rights" you were. That's not...

I think you're seriously misrepresenting a lot of negative opinions just so you can try to make your point, but that's as far as I'm going to push this.

You might want to tone it down a bit. Your recent eagerness in dismissing opposing opinions is not only disrespectful but also inevitably disruptive.

Agreed. If it does what we're speculating, it's easily one of my favorite changes to 4E.

Come on, this is just not needed. You can make your point without this stuff.

Very true. He still can't really handle things at range. But what's different is now that inability to handle things at range will in some way affect his ability to protect and/or heal his allies, because he now has protection and healing abilities that are inextricably linked to attacking...