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Do you really need another Warlord? The celtic bards have been poets/scholars since before the roman conquest.The word originated in ancient Gaul and specifically meant "poet, singer", even before coming into Gaelic and Welsh. Strabo, Poseidonius and Lucan decribed Bard as a class of poets and...

huh, I had the impression that most publishers had a quite reasonable wait and see attitude. I think for most people, the "venomous rage" was pretty spontaneous (the comments and attitude of some wotc staffers didn't help though.) Maybe if they hadn't been left in the dark for so long, or if the...

And CCGs, you forgot CCGs! :D

Hedgehog, seriously? I don't like furries as pc races, and spiky reaches a new level of freakiness, but i must applaud any attempt to obliterate the halfling. :) Is grannoch a made-up name like eladrin or does it have an etymological/mythological/fictional origin? I'm not sure where the...

I don't have a problem with abstraction per se. Power points are abstract. I hate the aw/pe/d system for its in-game implications: not being able to use a low level power twice, no matter what, even when you have enough juice/luck/time/whatever-you-call-it left to execute much more complicated...

I prefer to play male characters even though I've played a few females, but i find it funny that it could bother anyone. I don't know if it's a cultural thing but even when I started playing in junior high-school (late 80's), it was a non issue. Most of the guys would play a female character...

Me Me Me! I'll try! It matters if you don't like 4e as is, ie if you think 4e is an improvement over 3e in some areas but hate some of its other core aspects. The GSL ensures that no one tries to fix them. WotC wants 3PPs to support all their rules. God forbid another publisher comes up with a...

So do barbarians, and yet they're primal. I'm not saying the ranger wasn't needed, just that it was the last class confirmed for phb1 (some iconic classes and abilities are deliberately withheld to sell the next phbs. It was just a matter of which would cause the least outrage) And I think I...

Really no. What kind of controller powers would feel right for a ranger or martial character? The videogamey clouds of arrows or whirlwind attacks that affect many targets can only be done so many times before it gets silly. I think the ranger was first meant to be lumped with druid and...

See this as therapeutic, not reproductive cloning. I am sure the beast has some healthy organs to salvage. :D

only two?

Wow, that is harsh. Isn't trading a power for one of a lower level enough? Interesting. I didn't realize there was such a difference between per encounter and dailies. I'd rather leave healing surges out of this. Why not sacrifice 3 or more encounter powers to reuse a daily or a higher level...

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Yes. The GSL ensures that no one tries to "fix" 4e. House rules are not as satifying as 3pp because 1- solid rules demand more effort, time and playtesting than most gamers are willing to put in. 2- they make it more difficult to recruit players. "We're playing the Truenight Ironfinder variant"...

I know, this is one of the reasons i hate it, actually. It feels forced. To me, the variety of tactics should arise from a variety of adversaries and situations (ie designers and dm creativity) and diversity of options, not artificial restrictions. Precisely, reusable powers would make a...

Isn't there a long thread for this already?

"grâce" in this context means "mercy", as in mercy killing. "coup de gras" means something like "blow of fat", as in beating people with lard. Which might be fun but not terribly efficient, so yes: 4e is pretty simulationist in this regard :)

Thanks for your suggestions. We only played a few sessions, just to give 4e a shot, but weren't interested in playing it as-is anymore. We may try again when more options come out (more inspiring classes and powers, more varied mechanics.) In the mean time i'm trying to "fix" what doesn't work...

is option 2 "I’ll play, but not GM, the wrong" edition? I'd never buy the wrong editition. there was a french version too called l'Oeil Noir, and a gamebook series of the same name iirc.

I’ve been toying with some power point idea to fix that encounter/daily nonsense improvement and would like some input from you 4ons 4e enthusiasts :) Please mods don’t cast me into houserule limbo yet, this is more about understanding the rules' balance and implications than showing off some...