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And yet your avatar contains a perfect solution to that problem if it bothers you. And using a ruler to move your minis is another. 5 squares = 5 inches, in any direction. Simple, neat, effective. If the grid isn't doing anything for you, why continue to use the grid? :confused:

You do realize that it's a bit easier to stab someone sneakily with a dagger than to smack them with a club, right? I mean, a dagger can be hidden a lot more easily, it's faster, and it needs a LOT less room to use. And simultaneously, I don't think that spending one feat in 30 levels in order...

Somebody already pointed this out in the thread, but it seems worth repeating it again to make sure that everyone noticed it. In other words, the game does exactly what you're saying -- you can pick your powers and figure out what kind of character you want. They explicitly state this in the...

None. They've already stated, IIRC, that proficiency now equals a bonus, rather than non-proficiency equalling a penalty. And furthermore, everyone is saying "there are only two builds for rogue!!!!!" -- when it explicitly states in this preview's disclaimer that the builds shown are SAMPLES...

You mean a +1 to using daggers is a rule that if you play a rogue, you MUST carry a dagger? :\ I'm sorry, but having a +1 to using a dagger is not a set-in-stone requirement that you use one, and nothing else. In fact, I'm not trying to be confrontational, but your statement appears to fall...

I said it in the other thread and I'll say it again here: Observing a dump stat for ONE class does not mean it's a dump stat for ALL classes. Arcane seems like it would really be focused on INT, logically. Because the rogue relies on STR and DEX, is it really logical to assume that the...

A very good point. (Dang, that has a double meaning in this thread, doesn't it :D ?)

Pretty much the same thing as the broadswords used by the cavalry at the time, although a bit lighter for use on foot. Effective in combat? -- I'd say fairly, unless against a heavily armored opponent. By that time, the armor was so thick to deflect or slow bullets that you really needed a...

I may be misinterpreting here, but I think that INT as a dump stat for ROGUES is what we were shown in the preview. Not 'most characters.' Please bear in mind that this is a preview of one class, not every class in the book. Saying that all character classes will have INT as a dump stat because...

Rapiers are ineffective against armor. If you want to stab through joints in armor, you use a good, stout blade with a diamond-shaped cross-section, probably in a half-sword grip. With a rapier, you're going to be dead long, long before you manage to prize the blasted flexible thing through a...

Baseless accusations? I like your ad hominem attacks on me, I guess those don't count as baseless accusations in your book. But it just shows your caliber quite clearly. As a matter of fact, I AM a writer -- I've been published. Ever matched that, Mr. Snow? Two of my stories have been published...

Oh, it's an okay weapon, and if you're good with it, then it can be just as lethal as a lot of other stuff -- against unarmored targets, mind you. ;) The other peculiarity of a chain weapon is that it can do a heck of a lot of damage to flesh, but armor is going to pretty much nullify that...

Their main use, according to "Secrets of the Samurai," by Adele Westbrook (sp.), was that they aren't explicitly a weapon, so they could be carried without violating the lethally enforced Tokugawa shogunate's "gun control" laws. The fact that they basically appeared then, and almost exclusively...

Well, if you had a stable of ghost writers, you would have his ability to bang out pages. Do you really think it's possible for these people to turn out thousand-page books annually, like quite a few of these modern writers do? :) They just write the parts they want to, and let the anonymous...

The ability of Wizards of the Coast to sell a book which is basically a stripped-down and useless version of the final game indicates that they've finally gone from "offering RPG products to imaginative people looking for a ruleset to play their adventures with" to "something where the...

Exactly, I find it hilarious that people with practically the same hobby affect to despise each other so much. :D I happen to play D&D AND World of Warcraft, for example -- and my D&D style is very different from my WoW style (the former is an RPG, the latter is a tactical wargame). Both D&D...

All of those exotic weapons were more or less laughable, so I hope they'll be removed.

Yes, it depends a lot on what the other races offer. And as far my own experience goes, both racial bonuses and penalties tend to become less and less important as characters advance in level, since they're essentially static.

Why is everyone saying that the OP is saying that 4E is crap? :confused: I don't get it. What the OP said is: "WotC dumped 3.5 6 or 9 months before they had 4E ready. How are they going to keep going in between? Why didn't they produce something to sell in between? Why the suddenness of it...

Campaign settings don't sell, whether they're good or bad, unless they have a BIG name on them. Believe me, I've tried. ;) The RPG market has changed from "imagination" to "branding" even more than the Coca-Cola dominated soda market, IMO. People will buy anything if it has a "big name" on...