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On the topic of domains - IMO there is some basis for the variety of domains not having to be substantially different than for the other deities. While in *theory* the god is the god of everything, what I see in practice is that the expression of the gods power is usually confined to a limited...

Even two different sects within the same monotheistic religion can be violently opposed to one another. The problem, IMO, from the versimilitude perspective is that you would think a deity and his servants could pretty easily put an end to theological debates about the will of the deity...

Ok, so it works like this: Wandering into the astral sea and killing githyanki and their dragon pets - sensible. Stealing rolls of twine and copper pieces from city folk - deadly and stupid. I guess a DM can rationalize anything in his world, but this seems odd. The bottom line here I...

Foolish about what? I would think that statments like that would be plainly against the board rules. I told you what it was I didn't know. You still haven't identified where this came from, or anything that lets someone who doesn't know the context make any sense of it in terms of game...

Actually IIRC your point was something about traps and a certain way the game was played. NPCs and PCs being "different" is somewhat of a broad generalization, and IMO doesn't really make the case that the principles of 4E (whatever those actually are) are violated by PCs being able to create...

But wait. You've spent this whole time playing the game with the bookkeeping annoyance of having to keep track of the +1 from the Sword of Coolness. And you haven't quit yet. So I don't think you've have that much of a problem keeping track of the +3. If this is really your preference...

I don't see the logic of this at all. There are all sorts of events that your character can't control in the game that affect his fate. What about escaping (which is not avoiding AFAICT)? What about surrendering? Your choice about whether or not your character left a will, or what kind of...

What level do you reach where you can't use a +1 wand? I think what you mean here is that if you get a +2 wand then it replaces the +1 wand. But then if the "flexibility" you mention is really brought about by having a set of wands, then why does replacing one wand in the set suddenly make the...

Really? I missed the "Sacred Cows" chapter in the 4E DMG. Are you just making this up? That doesn't mean anything to me. If "everyone" understood what it meant in the same way, we wouldn't be discussing this. While I found your other statements to just be somewhat vague, this one is...

I think they are only *harder* to balance. If it's next to impossible, IMO this is because 4E has done virtually nothing to educate DMs on how to run any sort of game other than one based on the lowest common denominator. I think this is about how much DMs expect to be able to micro-manage the...

Is there any actual statement from the designers about this? It seems very common to me for people to post something in the forum asking about some feature that they would like to see in 4E to be told something like "that's not how you play DnD anymore" by someone who otherwise doesn't actually...

Fantasy fiction isn't the only measure of what DnD is about. The +X items come from the resource management school of RPGs. So an author might not care whether a character in his novels gains a level, or decides to bump his wisdom to 13 in order to qualify for some feat, but players do, and...

If there were dragons, then they'd eat all of the televisions, which would free the president from having to pretend to do stuff (riding helicopters around to look at broken things, shaking hands with people that you don't know, etc.). That would leave him more time to slay dragons. Other than...

Ruler is not the same as an administrator or minister. I see them more as figureheads. An adventurer/hero is more likely to be ruler than some sort of minister with the appropriate technical skills to decide what the crop rotation or tax policy should be. He can be responsible for high level...

Can you provide a single historical example of the nobility counting beans in order for their lands to keep from collapsing? There are plenty of instances of the reverse - in fact the seperation of fief's made it almost essential that the various manors in Medieval Europe be able to function...

The whole thing is self-reinforcing. The fewer women play DnD, the more alien the environment will be for women culturally. If I mention I play DnD, 90% of guys look at me funny, but 10% of guys are tolerant for some reason (because the play or do something similar or are geeks). IME the same...

IRL IMO positions of leadership bring with them greater opportunity and powers - but not in DnD. Make running a kingdom as useful as owning a +5 sword and more people will want it. IME of how most DMs run this sort of thing, leadership just winds up being a drag because all of the benefits...

There is no scientific basis to say this because you did not define a measure for value. I can say that everything that a dog gets from people is worth 0. And you can say it's worth 1 million dinars. I find your premise to be undefined and unscientific. Your instinct for assuming relevant...

Which models of evolution don't define the successful behaviors for the environment? One that predicts that a wooly mammoth would thrive in the ocean I suppose. So far I don't recognize what you're talking about as being science. You have no basis to say that one type of gold dragon...

It wasn't based on science. The analogy was based on a mistatement of the theory. The application was to a fantasy environment.