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My initial impression would be to say no. It refers to a few types of "doors" and calls them a method of ingress. That implies to me a real opening that you move your body through, not something you reach your hand into. I don't think it makes a difference either way, and terms like ingress...

All of those would be awesome. I also would like to get rid of dailies. I remember in 3e one of the complaints and reasons for 4es new system was the mage nova. Well when I was a DM for 4e, everyone went nova with dailies. Nova and retreat became the standard, sure I could create ambushes...

I was wondering this myself. After a long absence from 4e(playing deadlands, SR4e, and mechwarrior) I decided to peak back in and still no necromancer. I think it could easily fit under the wizard class kind of like the summoning wizard of Arcane Power, a few more necrotic spells, a...

I went form slightly negative to um neutral with a negative foundation. Basically I still think the core powers system and other core system points are really bad, but it is easy to run and I'm lazy so I am generally neutral. On the bright side the players seem to like the system, so for the...

I disagree. I think it will take maybe 15 seconds longer occasionally and usually not take any longer. Most rounds the movement is done before it started, so yeah all the summon will be doing is hitting things. Occasionally it will have to move and make a tactical decision, but unless the...

I saw it as on topic. He was comparing the multiple actions of a summon and a wizard doing something to the multiple actions of dual strike or heck I guess any AoE. How is the economy of actions broken with a summon acting on a minor action when its not broken with a wizard blasting a group...

Weird I thought 2e magic item creation system was incredibly functional, maybe the most functional I have seen in any system. I don't find easy to make functional, I find it abusable.

As much as i loved 2e, late at night my mind had trouble with thaco. I don't know why subtraction into negatives just threw me when I was tired. Wizards: I actually find wizard more powerful in comparison to other classes in 3e and 3.5e. That is where the real high level overpowered wizards...

What is meant by a broken system? Balanced..well I think 2e is more balanced than 3e and 3.5 e though less balanced than 4e. Not having a unified resolution system, well yeah it did not. If you see that as broken it was. I don't see it as broken, more complex and slower maybe but not worse...

I break terrain into two types. 1. Traps and other dangerous obstacles. 2. Tactical advantage terrain, like cover, or hard to reach places. 1. I like using these infrequently. We had one encounter where the party held the line near one, and the fight basically became how many people can...

I probably need this thread. When I first read the title, I was like why would you want to hide dummies. If I were to create a lifelike humanoid I'd want it to be seen as like a distraction, which would more like be a bluff check....OH dummies, not manikin style dummies.

Well, yeah but then you have to hit again in order to hold him again. It really requires a chain of solid luck to keep this going.

There was quite a bit lost from 3e to 4e. Whether those things are important to you is another question. Save or die spells gone Real summoning magic gone basic combat maneuvers like disarm gone

Yep.

While this can happen it usually wont. A melee oriented non-elite will have a decent chance to break free of the grab, an elite would likely have a better chance. Usually this should get you one round, maybe two. That is a decent help though, so its not bad. And since you can keep trying to...

I used a and clause for a reason. But yes in 3e and 4e the sorcerer is unmagicky to me since all the spells are totally reliable and repeatable. As an example lets look at shadowrun. All the spells are totally repeatable, you can cast them over and over again. But it feels more magical to me...

For me what makes magic unmagicky is 1. Reliability 2. Repeatability. Once something is reliable and repeatable it feels like science with a different skin to me. Since 3e+ has no backfires or other unintended effects, I'd focus on spells that have variable effects based on either a die...

I think its the once per encounter aspect of there abilities. Most other classes there class defining abilities are just on or usable every round, not once per encounter. So in a typical for my games 8 round fight, for most of a fight a wand wizard looks the same as a staff wizard, but hey...

For me its because they are weak. Some have gone over issues with he class so I wont reiterate those, but I think the largest problem with them is they more than any other class require certain encounter conditions to look good. I have to design my encounters so there blow up your friends...

yes and no. A lot of dungeons are basically the intelligent monsters home. A lot of people fight to the death when defending there home. if they make an intimidate check, well the morale issue is kind of forced. But I don't have many people cut and run when defending there home. They cut...