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I think my biggest problem is not either approach, but rather when someone tries to do both and then drops the ball. That is the primary difference between M&M on the onside, and Adventure on the other, and 4e and similar. I would have been fine with 4e being constructed like a Gurps or M&M...

I find less concern with hp and healing surges than I have with a narrative and non-magical martial power. As healing surges are an abstractions of a vast range of elements can be far more easily explained away in character. Everything from lucky medallion X taking that crossbow or a surge of...

Given a brief request and a bit of nostalgia, I find myself inclined to run a Feng Shui game based on GI Joe. I might trouble Torm for the material he used to run his (in terms of character sheets and such). Should there be interest in such a thing.

I find myself in a wierd place. As a rule, I am not against minions in games like Feng Shui and the like. But given the detail of 4e's combat system, it feels unnatural and outplace like a guy wearing a parka in the Gobi Desert. While I can understand the idea of mowing through humanoids...

Rel, just as a note. I think a number of the open games from the last one are still up and will need to cleaned out. Just as a note. As for this time, I am considering running a Feng Shui or Godlike game if we need another.

I could recommend Godlike and Freedom City as settings. I will admit the second has a number of similarities with the others. I think that Astro City is getting a write up as a setting, and given the limited continuity it would be good. Again I don't know if these are up on the internet in...

Honestly, I like the idea of a critical table for something that large. One that replaces the extra damage of a critical with a more...interesting result. Hell, I've liked them since way back when so long as they didn't get too complicated. (1 table max). I think the simple system is quite...

Like the OP, perhaps I have not been as civil as I could have been discussing 4e. I suspect much of the antipathy that I hold for this addition stems from the actions of WOTC during its writing and now. The lose of Dragon/Dungeon bother me, as does it treatment of Freelancers. Much of what...

I might be if there is a need for a chase scene, it might be a problem. As it might be if you were riding/driving a coach or cart. Trying to outrun a beast that you could not defeat or perhaps beat the Villian to a prize.

Honestly, we have never found Save or Dies all that effective. If only because by the time most casters we come across are packing them, we have Deathwards and Mindblanks as such in case. Add to that Revify, and so long as the cleric doesn't fail (me) I can any of them back up. And that is...

Given your specific situation I have a few suggests that are a might bit more specific -Crooked Cab driver. If they plan on taking a cab or other mass transit to their destination, there is a no guarantee that this particular cab or coach driver need be trustworthy. Cult Members looking for...

Heh, diseases. I think there was that one time in a planescape we accidentally turned Sigil into hot zone. Having the detect disease spell is just begging for morgan freeman moments. Let them have it and make it pay.

While I can understand people using Flight to avoid being squished as a caster on an open plane, everything about that screams to me that someone a couple hundred feet up is pretty easy to spot by anything with vision based on movement or scouts. If stealth, even the most minor concession of...

You know what would have made 4e complete? Rules for making new things, and balancing them appropriately. I'm not just talking about crafting rules, I suppose I can live without those. But rules for creating/balancing new powers, feats, monsters, classes, the list goes sodding on...

I expect something will show up in the next year or two. But if you mean the functionality that we were promised in any real meaningful way, I'd say somewhere between the Heat Death of Universe and the Point when the sun explodes. Pigs may fly using ice from hell to deliver it, and perhaps...

Which raises the idea of why by Crom's name should it be easier for Conan to get his hand on a magical sword than the pious scion of a religious order steeped in both mysticism and grand valor, not to mention the favor of the gods. Cause he can pay cash money for it? (Bah) Why have it in the...

As an often player of Paladins and the like, I find that insulting the monster's lineage and religion are great ways of getting them to focus on you. Also, you can break one of his legs and leave him less able to move. Also, tying your arms togather with some sort of material or adhesive is...

I think we made craft a worth while skill by allowing you to craft magical items using magical components. Leather armor crafted from the hide of the dragon will be far more impressive and its magical abilities will reflect the nature of the components. I find that Craft also serves as a...

Now I think I'm starting to understand why we had a slightly different experience when I think about the sorts of things that can happen with spells like Rope Trick and the other rest spells is either there were hazards in those other planes (those spaces existed somewhere, and things live in...

You know, speaking as someone who primarly played melee characters in 3e. I think I played 1 Cleric during the entire time we were playing 3e. I am currently playing a monk with a vow requiring not to accept benefical magic in return for a greater resistance and other benefits...