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Eh. Making alchemical items scale with level (so that you have 1st level thunderstones, and 20th level thunderstones - it seems like every single thing in the game scales at the same rate of 1 / 2 levels, these days) is kind of lame and lazy - it'd be much better to gain access to new items at...

Only if you still have to fight them despite being high enough level to start rubbing shoulders with demigods.

I hate insect-themed hive-dwelling enemies. We must have spent literally a year and a half of real-time in our online Shadowrun game dealing with the Bug City event - Chicago under quarantine, with insect-spirit invaders and their freakin' queens coming in from another plane, trying to possess...

If you're having a lot of fun running your current 3E game, stick with it. Why spend the money and time on something which might or might not be better for you if you're already happy with what you've got? Realistically, is it likely the new rules are so much better that they're going to make...

I see a lot of people assuming that the 11th level Paragon path multi-classing approach is the answer to those complaining about how limited the MC system seems so far... I think that's a big assumption to make - especially since, based on what we've seen of the Paragon paths, they're IIRC not...

It's not multi-classing. It's cross-class training, or something. It's the typical 4E baby-with-the-bathwater approach. So, no, I don't like it much. ;)

Well... Sure, but he's also asking people to judge everything we've heard about the game so far, and base their answer on that. Presumbaly, the level of excitement correlates with how good they think it'll be... and not just with how much they like shiny things. :)

Well, I guess you could view 10 (or 9, in this case) as the top 10%, rather than the pinnacle of perfection - it'd be reasonable then... but clearly, the people who claim they'd have voted higher than the max if it were possible aren't looking at it that way, eh? Though mainly, I'm just amazed...

Wow. Look at all those 9s. I'm not denying anyone's right to an informed opinion, but... all you guys who gave it the highest possible vote, you couldn't even imagine yourself ever being more excited about an RPG than you are about 4E? What you've heard is really that perfect? On a 1-10 scale...

...see, if I had those sorts of issues with 3E/3.5, I never would have waited around for 4E. I'd just have gone play something else years ago. Frankly, I still have no clue what most people who have trouble with 3.5 encounter design are doing to feel that way, because it never caused me any...

Just FYI, Step 2 is "Think". :)

So.... Because you don't have enough time you've taken on more responsibilities than you have time for, you'll settle for cookie-cutter filler? ;)

The only way to make sure every "5th level" monster is very close to the same power level is to make monsters a lot more uniform than they are now. Which, admittedly, is what it looks like they're doing. Hence, the "meh" Pit Fiend. And the Phane. And... well, just about everything, really. The...

Nope. I played a demo of 4E at the NY Comicon last weekend. In the following days, I happily played a 1st level 3.5 Wizard and DMed a 3.5 session involving a large climactic combat with multiple spellcasters on both sides. Probably had more fun as a result of knowing how lucky I was not to be...

"Just a Dexterity roll", but in 4E that means 1d20 + 1/2 character level + Dex mod.

Please, not this again. 3E and 3.5 were never designed around the idea of the party vs. one monster. The system for calculating the challenge of an encounter used that simplest possible scenario as the default starting point for figuring out difficulty and calculating XP. That's it. But...

It's not supposed to be a "reasonable" encounter (What's a "reasonable" encounter against one of the rulers of hell, anyway?) - it's supposed to use up 25% of the party's resources. Which might highlight what a miserable failure the CR system is, but really has no bearing on which monster is...

Not really. The write-ups by Mal are completely skewed. (no offense - but they are) In one of them, he describes all the wonderful things a 4E Pit Fiend will do when used in a group of monsters. In the other, he writes about the 3.5 Pit Fiend as a single monster, and then very...

The big problem with penalties for death and being brought back from the dead is that sometimes they are unfair - and even when they're not, they sure feel that way. - Some classes - tanks, mainly - take more risks than others. You end up being a meat shield for the rest of the party, and as...

I can see your point, but it just doesn't work for me - in the thick of combat, when trying to coordinate multiple individuals, you don't have time for polite suggestions... you can try to cast it in a different light, but I just find it rather forced.