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Why couldn't you simply have the damage of the lower level spells scale upward with level? Since damage seems to be major balancing factor, wouldn't that lead to people using what they need in a situation. Like using a Ray rather than a Blast if you have party in the area or deciding which...

As I was thinking about how the way martial exploits beyond at-will are handled, I realized that I could probably be happy with a bit of tweak to how this is done as it would match the logic of how the martial exploits are being described. My idea was to have the number of Encounter/Dailies act...

Let me say first that while I agree things like defensive roll (which didn't come up, we tended towards the arcane trickster or assassin style rogue) and a few of the others are rather bad offenders. They bothered me only when they came up which was, and I cannot stress this enough, rarely. A...

They are the glow sticks of doom and as anyone who has gone splunking will tell you, they can be dead handy. But my question is, can Sun rods kill vampires?

I thought the idea for 4e was that the powers were balanced? Wasn't that one of the major benefits. One might be more advantageous in a given situation, but if one is simply always better, not being able to do it more than once sounds like a pretty poor balance. Honestly I think we might...

Alright, since we have the initial portion of the setting and assume that 'Fated' of whatever race they might be are built with PC rules. No reason to do so for anyone else, but have them be the major players that you might use often. And we can build in speculation as to why this happened and...

This is pretty much where we part ways. In fact, if I could underline the point where I start to disagree its I would need something more like the subsequent I am quite tired. But the problem is that you'd have to be tired in very specific ways. I suppose the idea that you are causing...

That wasn't the thrust of the argument, but rather a rather poor example picked out of context. Let me ask you this Hong, say you were playing a fighter and your party is discussing whether or not to continue through the next level of the dungeon/adventure or head back to the surface and rest...

Something I might note. Given the explanations for game balance, I understand that the moves are ones that require an undefined opportunity that occurs once a day for reasons that we do not understand. Now I have a question for you. Why are martial classes the only ones that are unaware of...

Well, if I intreged one person, it was worth the effort. Anyone else have thoughts to this.

You know, I am getting profoundly sick of you trotting that out like its some manner of wisdom. Its the RPG equivalent of a "wizard did it" or more irritatingly "Its magic we don't have to explain it." I wouldn't accept that from book, why in God's good and verdant Earth would I accept it from...

I would propose that you aren't thinking hard enough. And really if you were going to use action movie logic, then they'd be able to do their "cool" moves many times against lesser opposition like mooks/minions as you've suggested. I really would have preferred an Iron Heroes or combo based...

Which is fine unless you think, as this results in "Last Action Hero" syndrom or a tendency to deconstruction ala "Scream".

Not really, I was more thinking it would run with a similar theme of a man apart. Though perhaps it would be better classified as being a horror, at least from the view of our average commoner.

Actually, everyone supposedly has 1 surge in them per day. If I were make this change I would describe that surge being the heroic efforts or an "adrenaline" surge. But when I have say 7 of something that everyone else only has 1 of, I'm not like everyone else. I'm special. But I'm not the...

While I do agree that a certain amount of preparation short hand is certainly called for when it comes to someone the PC's are unlikely to spend longer that the time it takes to walk by or ram a sword into their gut observing them. But really, I prefer that the NPC's follow roughly the same...

I know we've had tons of threads so far about "what is a healing surge?" or hitpoints as an abstraction? And given the rather drastic difference between NPC and PC abilities in this edition, I hit on the idea of celebrating the difference rather than trying to gloss over it. PC's regardless...

Creative uses for spells are half the fun. Using a scorching ray to toast a goblin is all well and good, but using it to detonate the powder room on the bad guys sky ship or the barrel of oil that the fighter just kicked into the middle of the enemy formation. So creative mage hand is always...

A rather significant thesis, though I suspect that other major reasons for humans not developing technology are likely to come into play. That is not to say that in a multiverse approach that Technological process is completely out of the question. To use great wheel terms, there is as likely a...

Uhm, I didn't say that. You messed up the quotes.