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I seem to recall some kind of weapon enchantment that might help. Then there's parrying daggers, but that would probably dump damage too much. EDIT: Maybe a boon could help here?

Other than the Feyspires, there really wasn't anything changed, and certainly nothing major. I mean, Tieflings have been in Ohr Kaluun as long as we've known what Ohr Kaluun was (so, since whenever SoS was released), and D-born's addition was in the most logical place they'd fit, and their very...

avin - No, Deva are all continually reincarnated angels. I just don't want there to be a bunch of competing themes, where possible. ideally for me, race, class, and theme would all be roughly equivalent; that way, dual classing or hybriding would be done like "Human Fighter Wizard"; one could...

See, though, even in the most simulation-minded RPG, there have to be abstractions. Exception-based design has nothing at all to do with that. BAB, skill points, HP, speed, ititerive attacks, saving throws, damage - name a mechanical anything in any edition. It's abstracted to some level. If HP...

See, that's the thing. The way I've always seen things, you aren't hurt enough to need bed rest until you've hit 0 and /can't heal/ for whatever reason; in 4e, you need to be out of or unable to activate HSs, and down. That's part of why HP loss doesn't make you fight worse - it's not doing...

Why can't a skilled, human warrior know how to bind his wounds after a fight? Or just fight through his pain? Even then, you're ignoring the possibility that healing surges are way open to interperetation. The cleric could invoke a minor prayer over the hurt, the wizard could slap together a...

I have a feeling the issue isn't actually with healing surges as much as it is with Second Wind. I still don't get it, but whatever. The fact about HSs is that they aren't freely available; they need to be triggered, whether by an ability or an item or whtever. If they aren't able to be...

avin - I think you mean geocentrism... Unless you mean heliocentrism as "the sun is the center of creation", not "the sun is the center of the solar system"...

Good idea on the Slayer and Knight - I hadn't thought of those. Re: Sentinels - I've actually already done both the Autumn and Winter sentinels (though I've only posted Autumn, here). Wizards has said they'd do 'em on DDI, though. On virtues and Vices - that's a good idea. One thing I notice...

From my recent blog post; I'm going to start work by filling out "cycles", to use trading card game parlance. In TCGs, a cycle is a series of cards with related designs or effects. D&D has its cycles, too, and a distressing number of them (at least for someone like me) are "partial", which is...

Uhhh... No, I don't see your point. If you could port your sheet straight over, why not just play 3e or PF? What's the point of a new edition, then? If you are so perfectly satisfied with 3e, you aren't in the target market. I may not be up for the new edition, but I'm going to be a little more...

Not quite true; if you wanted to represent a severe injury, a disease track that drained surges would be a good way to represent it. Of course, that requires a bit more work on the DM end, so point taken. Fair enough. I'm still not sure it actually makes each encounter easier, but that's...

Morrus - My problem, with that example at least, is the rules assumptions about that. I may not build a dextrous mage, but if I want to be good at "casting" a "basic spell", I have to be dextrous if I'm using the crossbow rules and want to be at all effective with them, even if flavor-wise it...

One thing that I do quite a lot in my games is reskinning - for example, a player in a 4e game I ran last year wanted a soulknife. We made an Avenger, modified some keywords and descriptions, and ran with it. What I'd like to see is what Savage Worlds already does with Trappings - make this...

That would be fine by me, but I've dealt with people who won't accept reskinning in their games. I do it all the time, but what of those situations where things must be represented exactly mechanically or the DM won't let it fly? Like I said, first houserule if I end up running the system, and...

But the end result there is about the same; in 4e, HP would be the unlimited track and HSs the limited. In either set up, the one you espouse or otherwise, if you run out of the limited track, the day is over. HSs aren't (usually) directly drained, but then when the fight is over and you spend...

Ahnehnois; It's not that I think it's necessary. I just think "out of spells, switch to crossbow" was lame and needs to go the way of the dodo.

I'm a little worried about the "at-will feats" bit - I hope every class gets at least one for free. Otherwise it'll feel like too much of a feat tax. First house rule? I dunno. Gotta see the playtest first.

That... is almost exactly what healing surges are. This conversation is confusing me. Half the people here seem to me to be saying "I don't want healing surges, but I want a setup that is mechanically nearly identical." :hmm:

But... There is a chance of random loss in the version you're against. That's been established - running off the rust monster, we have at least one example of a 4e game where using the 4e rust monster as written resulted in a significant random loss for the player. There is still a large amount...