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Bracers AC whatever, your tool for increased roleplaying breadth in 1st ed. Advanced Dungeons And Dragons. Yup, that's how I played it. No, you can't have them, Beardy McDelayedBlastFireball, I'm getting outta this sweaty ol' armor!

Slowly try to imagine a world presented in a CRPG, say a recent Final Fantasy, and then compare it to other imaginary worlds you have read about or seen depicted in movies or made up. If you can't make these distinctions, I cannot help you.

This whole argument is exactly of a piece with the "let D&D only simulate D&D" argument, except the people pounding that drum aren't happy when others come at it from the videogame angle. If you want to emphasize that the world of the game is only and can only be the world of a game, this is the...

Sure, sure – but the whole picture is, you have to do this over and over again, and not just when the PCs take damage, frequently when the monsters do too, and there's a lot more trading shots in the new edition; and yes, you sort of have to go through those hoops in previous editions, but it's...

mostly I don't get it I haven't been here for a while because a) I was disappointed to see this particular part of the forum turn into all edition wars, all the time, and b) I realized that I don't get 4e – I don't know what I can do with it. That's not true in the broadest sense – you have...

It's an RPG though. Hype is the point.

I bet it does ok, but I'd be surprised if it makes the RPG market grow a whole lot. It'll get a good amount of free press, but it doesn't seem like WOTC/Hasbro really has it together for a big push to sell the game to new players. I'd imagine the first-year "conversion" rate to be ~70% maybe...

Yeah that's basically my plan too. One of my sticking points has been "will I be able to play the characters I want to play in this new edition," and while I'm not too certain of that right now, I imagine that state of affairs is going to change a year or two down the road. That also covers...

You don't "have to" justify anything, but stuff that interferes with PC's cashflow tends to go right up to the top of the list. I mean, you could ignore any & all requests from players to justify anything, but they'd be totally justified in just walking clean out of your game. (I suppose...

People are still used to having rules shoulder some of the believabilty-load. Now, they don't, and GMs/worldbuilders suddenly have to carry all that themselves. These concerns don't just go away because the rules stop addressing them. I mean, is certainly how you'd do it. But you also have to...

The other baseline in the books is Fafhrd, who the Mouser crosses swords with on several occasions.

I was thinking he'd researched the spell "Detect Railroad".

You're all barking up the wrong tree. The only pet suitable for elves is ambulatory fruit.

It's not much good in formation and carrying around two long blades for duels/street fights is more of a pain than it's worth? In any case a) I've sure I've seen two-sword Chinese broadsword demos and b) of all the things to get simulationist about in this game surely realistic weapon styles are...

I am pretty sure a proliferation of base classes is the 4E model. I am not super crazy about the source/role combo as a method of class generation either – I'm still unconvinced that power sources even mean anything – but, it's there. It's just that 4E is expressly not a system where you can...

Intimidate should be more useful than it is in RAW 3rd edition. I've houseruled a few uses for it. For example, it should be more useful for getting enemies to surrender a fight, or flee. "DROP. YOUR. SWORD."

I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong, but I thought it was the rod of flailing, in 1E Unearthed Arcana, and it was presented as a multi-headed flail, not a stick with a spiked-ball-and-chain on each end. Yeah I lusted after that one too :D

See, I'd file many negotiations of this sort under "Diplomacy," since after all that is what is going on there and diplomacy is not synonymous with "hugs" no matter how much cable news tries to tell us otherwise. "Intimidate" covers threatening behaviors. In fact I think turning the sound off...

It depends on how things hash out, but what I might want to see is 3rd-party takes on/ additions to the core classes in the PHB.

The OP was a drawn-out argumentative screed intended to try to convince people with doubts that the moon is in fact the sun and the new boss is (re this particular issue at least) not the same as the old boss; it appears to hinge on the notion that 4E classes are just combat roles, like Iron...