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Dan'L- no, its a system where the core mechanic is rolling a 2d10 and telling the DM your result and your relevant ability score. He consults a chart and tells you the in-game effect.

Take a break. Play something else for a while. Something that isn't even heroic fantasy. When you're done, make a decision. I'd suggest some of the following: Paranoia. No one can min max because knowing the rules is treason. Seriously- you can have their characters executed if you get the...

Well, I notice the game starting to suck, look around for a way to stop the suck without fudging, and if the game continues to suck and I can't find a way to make it stop, I fudge. That handles... 90% of the cases where I fudge? And I don't even fudge that often, so exceptions to this are...

1. My signature is for advertising some neat homebrew stuff I made. Unfortunately I made it all right after 4e came out, so a lot of it has been rendered obsolete by WotC. I did some things better than them, though. I've been thinking of taking it down, but, meh. 2. There are several...

What if the DM says to you before the game begins, "occasionally, when things are really going weird, I may fudge a roll or two, but I rarely do it and I'm not going to tell you when it happens."?

Emphasis added. It sounds to me like you've replaced unofficial fudging with official, codified fudging rules. Which kind of gets to one of the weird parts of these debates. Some game systems have built in mechanisms by which the DM can adjust die rolls he doesn't like. Is this different...

I don't think this argument works. I think the point is that the DM is not an impartial arbiter if he's already setting up the preconditions in which he will (allegedly) impartially arbitrate. Personally, I don't any of the following as being all that different from one another- at most, a...

In general, no. Fudging can be a useful way to put a finger on the scale when random chance has dealt unusually unlikely and undesirable outcomes, but the less "swingy" your game's math is, the less you need to do it. I don't find 4e to be very swingy, so I don't do it anymore. ...actually...

I'm not sure its a timeframe issue. I think its context. The problem with randomly rolling your stats in a game like D&D is that it creates a highly erratic difference in power in characters that you are likely to play for a relatively long period of time. If D&D were more like Paranoia in a...

An encounter is defined as ending when the players get to take a short rest. This means that its impossible to not allow a short rest between every encounter. It would be like insisting that not every foot should end after twelve inches. Twelve inches defines the conclusion of a foot just as...

There was, sort of. It was mostly a list of suggested ways to use the existing 4e classes and some house rules and reskinnings to create reasonable approximations of 3e classes that didn't yet exist in 4e, or which were never going to exist in 4e. There was no algorithmic conversion guide that...

I selected that example specifically because there was a several month period during the run-up to the release of 4e, and then a short period afterwards, in which this argument was very popular. Several reasonable, interesting threads were turned into lengthy, useless swamps of bitterness by...

Edition wars aren't about facts? They may be motivated by emotions, but I think they're quite frequently about facts. Whether elder dragon minions exist in 4e is a factual question. If someone repeatedly creates threads, or sidetracks threads, by attacking 4e's elder red dragon minions, they...

Kamikaze- Sometimes the reason a troll has is just sheer, simple, stupid, brutal malice. slacktivist: False witnesses

1. This is only true if you were correct to give them the benefit of the doubt. 2. Past behavior is indicative of future behavior. How did the last time you gave them the benefit of the doubt turn out for you? 3. If what you're giving them the benefit of the doubt about is something like...

I disagree. While I am highly critical of certain ENW moderation policies, I do not think they are responsible for the edition war here. I do think they were and are responsible for the style and strategies utilized in the edition war, and that they are responsible for a complete vulnerability...

1. Nothing. You can find the same interaction in other settings. Boardgamegeek.com, for example, doesn't have edition wars because boardgames generally do not have editions. But that site does have wars between excited fans of new games, and curmudgeons angered that something new is more...

There's a whole list of groups trying to find some aspect of her personality and use it as a hammer against other people who share that interest or trait. I can't go into details because it gets political, but its frustrating and shameful. Her motives seem crystal clear, and trying to obscure...

1. I'll grant the opportunity cost issue, though it only went so far. 2. As for the chance to hit issue, is that actually a difference between 3e and 4e? 3e seems to start in the same general probability range as 4e. And as you level up, you gain iterative attacks, which ensure that your...

I don't know, I'm pretty sure that mathematically the benefits of a higher stat are exactly the same. You're rolling a d20 to hit in both systems. The only way I think you'd get a major difference is if you were hitting on a 2 or missing on a 19 with some of your 3e iterative attacks. I guess...