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While I will admit to using flight as a trap bypass a time or two, there were some instances where tiered battles with flight and thinking in 3 dimensions was far more fun than just running up and hacking at something. 3e also had a number of places which for lack of a better term had no land...

Alright, there are a few things I would like to add to this. Just from a logical point of view. While part of me likes the idea of a non-magical character being able to turn the proper elements, into a magical weapon and craft something that normally would have required a wizard during other...

Getting back to the topic as originially stated, while I do appreciate a modular design, I'm wondering how much is actually modular. No class is required admittedly, and from a design perspective I like that. Will there be rules for reducing/eliminating healing surges, and other gritty...

That certainly will work. If I don't get the nod though, I will have a Dread book for someone to use during that period. Don't know if you really need more than 1 copy rules for that, but I figure it could hurt to offer.

Mini-Gencon, man you ain't kidding. Quick question, Piratecat if I may. There is only 1 pre-reg slot between your two dread games, is that to facilitate walkins or are you just that popular? :)

Honestly, I think that might help. I think the problem is the lack of consistency in language, hit points as an abstract vs. Blooded as a condition/cure wounds...etc. But that being said, something has occurred to me. Assume for a moment that hit points did represent physical injury, allowing...

This was about what I was going for. I had not kept up with such things as well as I should, but I was largely wondering if such things had been already shared. IT seems that if they shared the reasoning it would help to diffuse some of the controversy that these sorts of things are causing...

The trick between the notation in the first edition dungeon masters guide and fourth edition is that the told me what hit points approximately where. I don't mind an abstraction but what we've been dealing with so far is less abstract and more undefined. It is all well and good to define it...

John, I do not have a problem with the cinematic representation of hit points. But I do not believe many of the examples that you've sighted really work the way your suggesting. The first I would refer to as your own. Though you are lucky you didn't pick up a concussion, had that blade been...

Eladin: I can accept that athletes have reserves of energy beyond what they would normally use in a given day and if we accept hitpoints as the ability to defend one's self and resist damage. I don't have a problem with that assumption either. I just want to know what is actually happened.

So my character is now aware of these reserves? Up until this point, you had suggested that being aware of any aspect of Healing Surges was metagaming. As for whatever word, the word in this case is important. But more than that, it has far less to do with DM talent at immersion or suspension...

Magic at its heart may be mysterious, but both I and my friend are going to wonder why it is working now. After all, my life may depend on its function. I need to know if it is going to stop. More over, this applies to any magical item forged as a ring, but should a similar enchantment be...

Eleran: You are getting the question, but you are largely missing the point. OOC: I used a healing surge, and gained back part of my hit points. IC: What just happened? An event occured, what was the Observable Result I say again, I can accept the abstraction so long as the abstraction is...

That was definitely what I was going for. Right on the money Dausuul.

Assume if you will that the character has no concept of the numbers behind his existence. He probably doesn't know what exactly a healing surge is nor does he likely know that he has daily powers. However, since we are assuming he is moderately intelligent he has begun to wonder why, as I would...

I would first like to thank Propheus_D and others for their responses. And I'm going to assume erelan's comments are not directed at me. I would hardly call myself a simulationist, though I do have minimum make sense requirements for games, especially with D&D. I suspect 2e and previous, with...

While there are a few fluff changes that do not precisely thrill me. (As a fan of planescape, alignments, and a few other things that have gone the way of the dodo). But I have come to the conclusion that my greatest problem with 4e and one that might indeed be fixed when June comes round and...

I suspect a great deal of my 'tentive' confusion hits in the healing surge and similar, as there has been some debate about if a 'monster' who joined your party getting healing surges and the like. Since that seems to be the larger part of my confusion, I should probably rephrase my question...

While I am perhaps the most stalwart champion of 4e edition but something that has occurred to me as discussions have moved forward about the seperate system for NPC's. Now I can sort of understand the need for short hand for monsters or npc's of a certain type. A basic combat summary is...

I find myself the closest thing to a 4e advocate in my group, in that I am merely extremely skeptical as opposed to uncaring or antipathic. I don't like a large number of the chances, fluff and crunch both, since this is a positive thread let me make with the positive. Many of the basic ideas...