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DEFCON- This is what I actually see. Nifft: There's a problem here. You: No there isn't. Nifft: Yes there is. You: No, there isn't. Also here is an assortment of snide remarks, presented for your perusal. Nifft: Here's an exhaustive explanation of the problem, presented in my trademark...

They changed the damage on the double sword. Its 1d6, leaving the Rapier with a viable role.

1. Its not the feat's existence that grates. Its the flaw that the feat exists to correct. Note that if there is in fact no flaw, then the feat is incredibly, incredibly broken- which is itself a flaw. 2. The amount of the feat tax isn't that high. But its still annoying. And its doubly...

Defender. This wasn't really a conscious, tactical decision. Its just what people wanted to play.

But you're reducing it by an amount which, BY YOUR OWN ARGUMENT, is so trivially small that no one will notice it. But an amount that does actually cause some hits to become misses.

But the AC bonus does the same thing as the Retributive feature in terms of influencing monster tactics- influence the DM to have the monster attack someone else. Your argument is like saying that its a waste for a poisonous animals to be good at hiding from enemies, because if it hides then...

That doesn't make sense. Are you hypothesizing that enemies that stay next to the Avenger will accidentally attack him even though they didn't want to, triggering the Retributive feature, and that its therefore "safer" for them if the Avenger has a higher armor class, so that when they...

That's an unclear part of the rules, but based on extensive prior discussion, I believe that the interpretation which creates the most effective, logical and consistent outcomes is to treat the caster of a close burst as being "in" the area of effect they've created, but subject to a special...

Psst... It doesn't make sense to argue whether superheroes have friends, because superheroes aren't real and all of their traits are made up by authors who have different visions for their characters and the worlds in which they live. So no matter what assertion you make, someone somewhere is...

I think there's probably some slight American bias. I think there's MASSIVE European-originated-cultural bias. Absolutely enormous. To the extent that it sometimes makes me kind of mad. The game gets incredibly detailed and persnickety about European tropes and weapons, but then tells you to...

I think the biggest problem with trying to derive political messages (or make political messages) from superhero stories is that there aren't any real life superheroes. The unfairness that we feel when Dash wants to win races by just blitzing everyone else with special magical powers that he...

The article nightwyrm linked is pretty good. I mostly like it because it really helps separate out how things that are very similar in concept can be very, very different in actual outcome. Let me give you an example using D&D powers. Suppose we had two powers, which read 1. Immediate...

I can tell you the difference between two example characters, but I can't tell you what the bounds are of "optimized" and "unoptimized." Its too gray of an area. No matter what I set as the lower bounds of "unoptimized," someone will find a way to fall beneath it. And likewise no matter what I...

No, the whole spider/rattlesnake/etc format for classification of card powers.

Magic's gamer terminology is decent, but its animal terminology is better.

Our group seems to do fine. We have a two handed weapon talent fighter with a mordenkrad and the kensei paragon path. He hits very, very hard, and is very accurate. He averages somewhere over 20 damage per hit. Unfortunately for him his AC is terrible, but this means that he's a very popular...

It should also be noted that, if your goal is killing minions, Cleave is probably a better choice.

GM- he's fixating on your constant use of the word "meaningless." He's saying that if you believe that the odds are "meaningless" you wouldn't spend time pursuing better odds. Essentially he's reading your very all or nothing language, and taking you at face value. As for what you "have" to...

I just don't like rules glitches. I don't believe that the designers of many powers that allow flight were fully aware of the incomplete nature of the existing flight rules. I don't believe that the designers of the swordmage were fully aware of the rules on changing your weapon grip. I don't...

fuzzlewump- Technically, Umbran is talking about people's perception of their character's performance, not their character's actual performance. He's saying that your character changes so often that it mentally "resets" in your mind, causing you to feel like you have many small, insignificant...