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  1. GreatLemur

    D&D 4E My compiled list of 4E's WoWisms

    Wait, when did Ernest Borgnine play Dracula? That sounds like an extremely weird casting decision.
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    Abstract HP

    The trouble is, that solution has its own compelling counter-example: The simple fact that you gain hit points with every level. It makes a hell of a lot more sense for experience to help you avoid wounds than survive them, especially given the giant heaps of HP past versions of D&D have doled...
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    Questions for the designers.

    The fact that they aren't just plain gray (in the way that coppers, bronzes, and brasses were just plain brown) makes that kind of a pointless argument. But there's also the fact that iron has a whole lot more distinct meaning for most folks than bronze and brass. I mean, it's iron. You don't...
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    Natural Healing: How long does it take to "heal" luck and skill?

    If there was an implied explanation in there for why high-Con characters should take longer to heal, I missed it. Also, I'm curious as to whether you've got a good rationalization for healing that isn't based on the recipient's level. That is, why does a high-level Fighter take more juice out...
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    LIfe Without Alignment

    Yes. Thank you. EXACTLY. Alignment systems are the exception, not the rule. "How does it work?" We try to roleplay our characters as if they had believable personalities, moral systems, allegiences, and preconceptions. Just like any good D&D player does. I pretty much immediately took the...
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    Abstract HP

    Wait, wait, so you're saying HP increase by level makes more sense if HP represent literal, physical health and toughness? And less sense if they represent defensive skill? That said, I totally agree that D&D's hit points are a pretty bad system, and that this poorly-defined area they're...
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    Questions for the designers.

    I don't really see what's hard to understand about "Three different kinds of shiny, brown, good-aligned dragon are boring, and for the decades that they were in the game, they failed completely to stand out for the vast majority of gamers." You can't argue away the fairly obvious truth--as...
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    D&D 4E Angels in 4e: a possible future problem

    I don't think that's precisely correct. I'm not going to go into it here, but they're definitely an older idea than that. Anyway, regardless of religious history or 4e's fluff, that's pretty much what I'd been thinking fantasy RPG "angels" ought to be for years, anyway.
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    Questions for the designers.

    Yet another "I never knew or cared about the differences between copper, bronze, and brass dragons", here. But, yeah, dragons based on alloys seems damned silly, to me. Something doesn't have to affect gameplay to be worth changing. Better fluff is better, regardless of a few fans' irrational...
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    Chainmail Bikinis & other Cheesecake art in the 4th Edition Core Books.

    I was annoyed and embarassed by art direction that presupposed that I was a dateless 14-year-old boy even when I was a dateless 14-year-old boy. Now that I'm 30 and married, it looks even dumber.
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    Shadowfell, and reworking of undead and afterlife

    Seriously. If I never hear about negative or positive energy again, I will be notably happier with 4e. Freakin New Age wankery...
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    WotC_Bruce serves the dragon

    Damn, I certainly hope so. That was never any fun.
  13. GreatLemur

    POL Setting: Literacy automatic or no?

    If literacy only costs a single skill point (assuming there is some corresponding currency in 4e), then illiteracy as the default isn't much of a burden. It's just interesting. I've also gotta speak out against Common, although I admit that's a much riskier thing to remove. I just think it...
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    Feywild, fey as major powers in D&D: good thing?

    Yeah, I've been reading that lately myself, and it's definitely got me much more interested in using fey or something like them. I've got some thoughts about reducing them to their fundamental traits and stripping away what I'd consider incidental and cultural trappings.
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    D&D 4E Planar Adventures and the New 4e Cosmology

    While travelling--perhaps unintentionally--through the Feywild, a PC breaks some seemingly-arbitrary (but apparently very important) law of the local fey. The party is captured, and the offending PC is put on trial. The kicker is that the fey judicial system might as well be a game of...
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    Sigil is in the DMG!

    You know, I'd actually say that Sigil works better with the Astral Sea than with something as orderly as the Great Wheel. Anyway, much respect to Michele Carter for getting Sigil into the DMG.
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    Bits and Pieces of Worlds & Monsters

    I dig where you're coming from. There is no sense at all in assassins wielding any kind of magic by default. Still, I could deal with the 4e Assassin being a "Shadow Striker" by rationalizing that the class just represents some kind of shadow warrior. Most actual assassins, therefor, wouldn't...
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    D&D 4E Reinvisioning the Halfling for 4E

    I told my wife about this thread, and she decided to redesign halflings to look like aye-ayes. I'm not really sure where that came from, but it's definitely interesting.
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    Large red dragon mini with only 5 fire resist...

    Electric eels even shock themselves. That's why they go blind as they age.
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    Large red dragon mini with only 5 fire resist...

    My stomach is full of hot acid. It's capable of dissolving even tooth enamel, given prolonged exposure. But my stomach has withstood thirty years of it.
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