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I don't like what I've heard about the magic ring rule. Maybe I don't know what "magic" means in 4E. Maybe I don't know what "ring" means in 4E. If every word in the snippet relies on a special 4E definition that we don't know, then what's the point of posting the snippet? Why would they try...

I would agree as far as rules in the players handbook go. I don't think that either wealth "guidelines" or CR rules count. In fact, is the CR stuff even a rule? The older versions of DnD told you how many xp you got for killing a monster, and I don't see the CR rules as doing much more than...

There are two issues to consider here. One is what the DMG means by "laborer". I don't think an American laborer, working in an environment with minimum wage laws and child-labor laws and all of that really is comparable to a medieval "laborer". I would look outside the US for comparisons. I...

I agree. But the 3E DMG lists the daily wage for labor at 1sp. My vague assessment of the wheat and most other commodity prices (except for salt - sheesh) is that they are ok too. So from that perspective, the current prices seem to already been on a "silver standard". At least for things...

It's possible, I would think, to get a distorted view of what's interesting about the past based on what people of the present wish to study. For example, if one is cover the art history of the early 20th century it might be that something like "Art Realism" might be covered because there were...

Well yes, it's a story after all. But it's not "escapism" when it dwells on/expands the very anxieties that your statement implies people were trying to escape from - whether it's invasion by the Soviets, or the ostracism of returning war veterans, or whatever. Me neither, I think we're...

How would you explain the popularity of Tom Clancey, Rambo, Red Dawn, etc? That every popular pseudo-historical idealization of the past (like Arthurian legend) must follow some sort of historical crisis (like the War of the Roses) could just as well be a commentary on the frequency of crisis...

I've gone back a few pages and tried to figure out how the discussion got on this tangent and I'm not quite sure. The issue seems to revolve around what sort of fantasy DnD should simulate. I think. There are statements that claim that Dracula is not fantasy, for example, but I don't see...

Not for me - I got banned for doing this (though it wasn't a supporting fact that I was using in a debate) and rightly so. Otherwise, the "middle of the road" metaphor suggests to me that this thread must exist somewhere on Shilsen's way to work. Sounds like a bug in Internet Explorer.

Yea, I recall something like that, which was what I was thinking when I said that he had some sort of unspecified limitations on what he could do. I think this ultimately makes it impossible to slap an equivalent DnD level on Gandalf. Not that any such approximation is perfect for any literary...

I am. I got into this originally because I felt that the Epic Level Handbook (3.0 version that I have) overstated the relevance of Epic level adventuring to literature. They grouped Conan, Odysseus, Gilgamesh, and Cu Chulainn all as epic level characters even though I'd say I would only...

There's a difference between knowing facts and reasoning. Nobody's reasoning is infallible. What "mindfulness" means to me is that the fact is incorporated into the reasoning. I'll try to point out where I don't think this is happening. Basically I think the closest, and most useful way of...

Yea. When you're on 10, where can you go? Where can you really go for that extra power? My characters go to 11.

Well to some extent this situation already exists because you have to touch the people that you're taking along and IME this is often not possible in a situation where you need to teleport out of battle or else you are going to die. Party-splitting situations are going to occur in any game...

Magic swords are better at killing things though. On one hand I can definitely see the benefits of this perspective as a game, but on the other hand if you don't have a magic sword that's better than a regular sword then it misses out on one of the basic elements of fantasy adventuring...

Ok. I would propose that "battle-hardened" could equally mean 1st level warrior plus intangible morale factors. It's a question of whether or not someone who is battle-hardened is really better in a one-on-one fight than someone who isn't - or whether they simply have better morale and...

Mooks *are* battle hardened warriors. Otherwise they're called commoners. It's another situation where DnD has caused an escalation in people's expectations. Because someone's PC can easily dispatch a 1st level warrior, now we've got to up the ante. People seem to forget that DnD is designed...

Dragons are so Beowulf! Should DnD be in the business of selling 1200 year-olds back their childhood? Sheesh.

I don't know what you mean by "systemically". The relevant issue AFAICT is *can the function of the transporter be blocked or altered?*. The answer, as far as I can tell, is yes. This would mean exactly what you were saying, that this mode of transportation, or really any other, would be...

"Totally"? Look, can't anyone qualify anything anymore? Is the internet really wrecking people's abilities to deal with nuances? Did I *totally* remember it wrong, or is there really an interpretation problem? He doesn't clearly talk about countermeasures or any versimiltude issues AFAICT...