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I will admit right off the bat I did not read all 27 pages of replies, or even anything after the highlighted paragraph of your OP. If anyone else has already pointed this out, I apologize, but... He is offering to solve your problem for you. The only thing you need is the Fortitude to say...

I don't know if that promise was made or not. Then again, EVE Online has outweighed all other gaming concerns for me for years now. I had quite enough of it aat age 20. I'll be 40 in a few weeks, no need to revisit it.

I was not religious propaganda at all; it was "moral gauradian" propaganda perpetrated by one woman who was searching for something to blame her son's death on. If you don't want people do be judgemental about D&D, don't make baseless generalizations about "religion". Amazing as it may seem to...

They were definitely unheard of. Choices of what to use and what not to use were confined to particular groups or their DMs. There was no community discussion of balance at all if you went to cons or even sat around on Friday night at the gaming club. MMOs did not yet exist, so "balance" when...

By mandatory, I meant they should have been a basic part of the character build process just like 3.X/PF My fixes would be: Chain shirt goes to light the heaviest Medium armor available starts at max Dex 1 and goes up 1 Dex from there back to the top, so Hide would allow Dex 4. Heavy works...

Yes, it's missing qualifiers as that was just a quick aside. Your example isn't very good though, becuase there might be an actual reason why it's designed that way; taking pure damage numbers from a hypothetical system doesn't tell us anything. Assuming, however, that those numbers are just...

Having read the rules but so far not had an opportunity to play it, I'd say it's a significant improvement over 4E but if I had my pick of systems it still takes at best 3rd place behind 3.X and PF. I would definitely play and run this system, it just isn't my first choice, and I wouldn't run...

What exactly is stopping either the DM or the group in these games from using rule 0? I have news for you, in the unlikely even I were to DM for 4e, rule 0 exists in my game. Period. It doesn't matter if they system claims to ahve it or not - it is ALWAYS present, in ANY game. Rule 0 is...

Necessarily. That's the point of rule 0. To change things. That does not change the perception from the character perspective - they aren't aware of the out-of-game interactions. To them it's always been that way. All systems always have rule 0. Even if they have no DM. Rule 0 is called...

The problematic assumption you are making is that Rule 0 involves the DM making arbitrary judgements on the fly that the players are aware of, and in areas where rules are already clear. Usually at least one, and most often more than one, or all of those things are not true when Rule 0 is...

Rule 0 is not changing anything - it is the most basic, fundamental assumption of any system. When the DM alters some aspect of the system, he is creating the system as it exists in the world the characters understand. He isn't altering their system and they haven't understood it as it's...

While this is perfectly fine as a personal feeling, you are not describing a problem with the system except insofar as that system does not meet your personal preferences. You rather clearly admit this by pointing out that the growth in power of casters "seems" a certain way, and then you go on...

The error in your thinking is summed up in matching a 13th level monk against a 13th level wizard, and severely compounded by ignoring what I posted about interplayer relationships. 2 PCs of should never be contesting each other; matching them up in that way is a red herring. If someone feels...

Balance, in general, is severely overestimated in terms of importance in D&D - and for that matter, any other human-run tabletop game. Despite claims of a "rule 0 fallacy" where the game is thought to be inherently unbalanced if the DM has to intervene contrary to the rules, in reality this...

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It really never ceases to amaze me how loudly people will insist that someone else's opinion isn't really their opinion.

I simply cannot get past - and that's cannot get past as in cannot even stand to read the 4e PHB for more than 10 minutes - the mechanical homogenaity of 4e. For me, 4e's claim to balance is bad. I do not want a balanced game. That eliminates its main selling point. Furthermore, I don't...

My (very) general feeling is that I want the mechanics of a system to support as wide a variety of character concepts as possible, with sufficient granularity that two characters with generally the same concept can also differ in meaningful ways. In other words, the "what" of the mechanical...

Beats the heck out of me. My experience with Planescape consisted of exactly one adventure that ended in my character jumping through a portal that apparently spelled instant doom because my buddy who was ostensibly starting a campaign there discovered (as he generally did on the first or...

I don't see anything childish about tearing your character sheet up and announcing you're done. If you destroy the sheet, people are less likely to try to cajole you into continuing when you really don't feel like it. Tearing up the sheet means exactly that. It certainly doesn't imply a...