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We don't normally use a battlemat at our gaming table, mainly because our gaming table IS the living room with everyone on couches, the floor, standing, getting Mt Dew or snacks etcetera. Even when we are at the kitchen table the space that could be the battlemat usually has books or food or...

The RAW also allow my character to stab your character while it is asleep, or to slip a poison into your flagon of mead, or to side with the BBEG when we get to him, or , or , or. It isn't the RAW that makes a cohesive gaming table it's the people at the table deciding they want to do this...

It's unfortunate to me but they will not in the foreseeable future be able to sell me on any E-magazines. Every issue of dragon was useful to me in one regard that no E-mag could be. Portability to rooms in the house where one doesn't generally take a computer but does generally sit for extended...

Sorry John, I saw the "abab" in your post and had a flashback of a video game cheat code on the original NES. Can't quite remember what game the code was for or what it did (though I suspect it was contra and unlimited lives) I was just being flippant and light not actually trying to contribute 8)

Would the encounter and daily be considered up, down, select, start ?

Being told by a third party what color the car is (or is not if the car exists at all) would have an impact ? Perhaps they observed it differently than I will (under different lighting, at different velocity, under different humidity, maybe one or both of us has some issue determining some colors)

4E hp are like electrons ..... We know where some of em is and the rest of em was. http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_122.html

What are your hit points in RL ? what about your stamina, strength dexterity ? DO you have a numerical readout for any of those ? Do you keep track ? What level are you ? How do we compare those ? I would imagine that very few of us know, or think about any of those things in any "real" sense...

Seriously if I (in rl) can tell what my limits are without having a character sheet or codified rules, why is your professional warrior having trouble with it ? How would "YOU" know you were in trouble ? YOU would look at the character sheet and interpret the rules and situation. How would...

I am not a hero nor do I play one on TV. I know that if I am jogging to the store odds are at some point, which will vary based on weather, obstructions, my mood, etcetera, that I will need to stop and suck in some air with my hands on my sides or knees. After 30 seconds to a minute I'll be...

Even with what actions they will take being decided between rounds implementing those actions in 3.5 takes more time because there are (seemingly) more of them, with boni or penalties that need determined and applied. 4e appears to have less math and less options to apply said math. This will...

I was going to use the comparison chart in this thread to simulate the amount of time player 1 and player 2 spent sitting around waiting for the other player to make decisions and resolve combat. However seeing as how those numbers would have been pulled from "the dairy air" let's just ignore...

Whats with all the "bags of" ? Curse that germ, or swarm thereof, and inhale. 8)

But which enemy the 56 henchmen in robes or the evil vizier masquarading as the benevolent if doddering old priest ? I for one don't like the minutiae of making the party make 57 coup de gras roles and turning them from the saviors of the town into the throat slitting saviors of the town (we'll...

So after every post of yours that I read I went back and checked the article to make sure what I thought I understood was ,well for lack of a better term, what I thought I understood. Here is the pertinent text (in my humble or not so humble opinion) Bolded emphasis mine So if there is a...

Would you test a car at 5mph ? or an airplane at umm whatever minimum velocity to remain airborne is ? They are play testing and in this instance (the snippet about magic items) we were shown a character that *gasp* *shock* *horror* has some. I think it would have been much more difficult to...

please show me the article that says an NPC in heroic paragon or epic tiers automatically has a treasure horde ? Monsters (and hence npcs and thus encounters) are being built to not necessarily need them to be effective at the level they are being designed for. Sure High Lord Lukas Bannerman the...

If you're using a +3 sword in each hand do you add +6 ? Currently in 3.x ? Has anything remotely close to an answer to this been hinted at by a wotc insider for 4e ? Do we know what penalties the ranger gets for twf ? is casting 2 spells the equivalent of using 2 weapons, or is the magus really...

They said we would be less dependant on multiple stat/ac raising gear and we are. we have gone from : head face amulet cloak armor shield bracers gauntlets gloves legs feet any number of tatoo's/piercings that could have a mathematical effect on stats, ac, attack/defence down to 3 3 that you...

I suspect they won't make a HUGE difference. I suspect this because we have been told so Will it be completely broken by players over on the char-op boards who like to do such things, some to actually see play with and some as mere intellectual enterprises ? Surely the answer is yes. But not...