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I strongly approve of this idea. I mean, it's 2012; that should be the only argument one has to make in favor of it.

Sounds like an interesting game. I am especially intrigued by the character creation system with Flaws and Traits. I pledged $15 on the Kickstarter, so I'm looking forward to trying it out later this summer. :)

Someone grab a starving humanities grad student and get him to write his dissertation on this article. Seems like you could say that 4e took a more "Postmodernist" approach to game design. Basically, when writing up the system, they said, "We all know that we're just playing a game and trying...

I like to call my attacks with more pizazz than "I attack," but I don't want to try to come up with and narrate some sophisticated martial maneuver every time I just want to hit something. I'm not a Medieval combat expert, so if I'm playing a fighter, I just want to let my character's stats do...

Having never played 3e or Pathfinder, I'm curious what it is that these have to offer in the way of out-of-combat features that 4e doesn't. In 4e, even if you don't have any utility powers that are useful outside of combat and no rituals, you will at least have to reference your character sheet...

Others have explained it before, but I'll provide an analogy. The release of successive D&D editions has very little to do with how the game stands up on its own right and almost everything to do with business. Here's the analogy: You would never say, "The video game Madden NFL 2003 failed, so...

They clarified that if you have advantage at all, then you are still considered to have advantage for anything that requires that (you just don't roll any extra dice). So a blind rogue who is invisible can still do sneak attack damage. EDIT: 100th POST!!!!

Personally, I've always found it odd that social interaction often has so little to do with character stats, unlike combat. I can't roleplay someone who's a masterful duelist that wields one fullblade in each hand if my character's strength and dex are both an 8 and the rules prevent me from...

Related question that I never knew the answer to: Can the rogue hide in an area of low-light without cover, or does he still need some sort of cover even in low-light?

Guys, it's okay. 4e is totally just a tactical miniatures combat game. All of those hundreds of pages of text across DMGs, PHBs, Dragon articles, and splatbooks on crafting a character's history and origins, world-building, creating interweaving narrative threads, skill challenge adjudication...

I'm going to be mostly playing devil's advocate here, since I think the idea is a fresh, appealing one, but I'm not entirely sold on it. It's essential for them, just like overnight healing might be essential for someone who's only ever played 4e. WotC's design goal the whole time has been...

1) No, it means that healing is so important that the designers didn't want to force people to choose between healing and attacking. The "minor" designation isn't a value-judgment on an action's importance; it distinguishes how much time it takes to do different actions. 2) Healing surges don't...

I've never even played anything pre-4e aside from Neverwinter Nights 2, and I'm already sick of the Forgotten Realms, too.

Horror will be your most valuable weapon. Is it in your heart to be.... horrible?

There isn't an extrinsic motivator anymore, really. If you've tried the playtest and sent in your survey, then you've basically accomplished the goal of this portion, and any further playtesting can't accomplish anything more for the time being... It's like software/video game testing: At this...

Maybe where you play. I've played Encounters at two different shops, and in each they followed the "1 encounter per session" guideline. Usually it takes upwards of 2 hours, though, unless you have a lame session like one recently where there was no combat. Encounters is a marketing tool to get...

The more I think about it, the more I like the "add 5' required to stand up for each adjacent enemy." Try lying prone right now -- not just lying down casually, but like you just got knocked flat on your face, which is how combatants typically end up prone in D&D. Now try getting up and running...

I read every post but still don't understand the intrinsic link between being able to knock an ooze prone and FitM. The ooze problem seemed more like a strawman argument. You can have a system based on FitM without letting players knock an ooze prone. You can knock an ooze prone in 4e, but you...

I'm a huge fan of games like Civilization, Europa Universalis, and so on, but people play those games for completely different reasons than D&D. Those are grand strategy games, whereas combat in D&D is purely tactical. It makes sense (and is satisfying, in its own way) in a Civ game to spend an...

? Not sure why you quoted me for this. Maybe you thought I was making a snarky point masked behind a clever one-liner, which, if so, I'm afraid I have to disappoint you... I was just making a nerdy joke based off of something I found amusing in the video. :D (specifically, the several rounds of...