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Funny definition of "cheating" you've got there.

Plus, it takes up time that could be better spent gaming. I can certainly add and subtract. I can even multiply. If I sit down for a while and take my shoes off I can divide. But it doesn't mean that any damn calculation I don't absolutely have to do isn't going to annoy me, just because I can...

1. Legacy 2. It's the term used in CRPGs, other RPGs, and virtually every other media the audience for D&D 4th is going to be familiar with. 3. We know that class abilities and magic weapons are going to have powers tied to critical hits; as far as we know they might well be special effects...

Remember, most gritty games are not designed to have the frequency of combat D&D does, much less any dungeons to crawl. Call of Cthulhu games are supposed to be mostly investigation and tension that builds to a climactic and deadly confrontation; you'll go many sessions without ever firing a...

Every unnecessary roll is an unwelcome intrusion on my time. More importantly, every unnecessary game mechanic is a parasite, sucking the fun out of gaming.

Besides, if sufficiently large and angry swarms of peasants killing even the highest level opponent given enough time is wrong, I don't want to be right.

At the moment I'm playing Wild Talents, which uses the "One Roll Engine" (predictably, very few rolls...) I could not care less about tactics or simulation. I am a story-first sort of person. Dice are only great for the tension of randomness and the unpredictability they lend to drama. At all...

I don't play D&D 3rd partly because unnecessary crap like the confirmation role. There's no way I would have ever started a thread on the subject, because I didn't care. D&D 4th has my interest precisely because they're cutting down on the cruft. Every dice role that does not absolutely...

What they could do is in the DMG's worldbuilding section, do a worked example of "Making a Campaign Map" with step-by-step description of their thought process and recommendations, ending with a full example map.

What are you talking about? RPGs reboot all the time.

While we're on the subject of changes I'd really like to see, but don't seem to be, is that I really wish the default wasn't "Use Miniatures." I'd really appreciate the combat chapter split into a hyper-simplified "Basic Combat" (no miniatures, none of the fussy details, closer to classic D&D)...

It is the circle of life.

Off the top of my head, Feng Shui had a built in "You can rebuild your character if you don't like it early on" rule. EDIT: And I'm sure people have been allowing it for decades now. It's a good rule to have formalized, regardless of its provenance.

While for most games I adopt an alternative philosophy, with D&D...if someone wants to say, "I'm a good cook", it's fine. It's character flavor. I see no reason for it to be implemented mechanically. Only "Action" skills- stuff you use in adventures- really needs mechanics, because it's the...

I'll have to swap that one out then, since I doubt any campaign I'd run would have anything resembling a dungeon ecology.

What would "Dungeoneering" entail?

I have no idea what you are saying or why you are saying it.

Oh, good. I'm glad to hear that.

Speaking as someone whose gaming includes lots of emphasis on social interaction and investigation...the lack of a "information gatherer" or "talker" role is a little concerning. Granted, these roles seem to be the combat ones, so I suppose I am inquiring whether or not there is any indication...

I imagine it will still be in the game, but as a plot device, not something you can just use all day long.