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I think it's fairly simple to adjudicate. First, I don't think we are talking about squares here, we are talking about targets. For each use of a volley related power you may or may not choose to attack an otherwise legitimate target. I can't help but think that adding a new keyword function...

Do you have any more general questions or comments, cause I'm pretty interested in this project. Did you catch the Al-Quadim shout out in the DMG?

You could keep the friend-foe distinction. Class Feature: Powers that use the Volley key word have the following features: 1.) Cover for targets effected by the power is determined from the user rather than the point of origin. 2.) Users deplete their ammunition for each target attacked by...

sweet. Fun fluff, too.

A good point, in TRPGs we can blame the DM rather than the game. We don't seem to be able to do that with CRPGs, we can't just blame the writer or the code and not the game. As a side note, however, I think one important function of both CRPGs Code and TRPG DMs is to crash the game when people...

Saying you aren't insulted by a critique isn't the same as addressing the critique, but I appreciate your willingness to continue with this dialogue. This is playing fast and loose with the scope of your argument. The two genres are certainly not completely different with regards to...

You've got it backwards. Your brain is a computer. That's the original meaning of the word. Computers are people. The box you program code into is just a simulation of a computer. One whose silican 'brain' has different limitations than your meat brain. And even that is inaccurate. What...

Mutants and Masterminds was good, but I honestly don't know that a point buy system makes sense from the perspective of 4E mechanics. So I actually don't know that a 4E Mutants and Masterminds would be such a loss. That said, there is the d20 GSL which should open things up for Supers games...

I don't think it's right, no. You'd still own your stuff just like WotC owns its stuff. If WotC creates a 4E corsair after you create a 4E Corsair you aren't suddenly in non-compliance. You just wouldn't be able to go into WotC's definition of terms and apply your own. Later 4E works would...

I been thinking about it and I'm wondering if maybe the best solution for Volley is just to say that powers with the Volley keyword figure cover for targets from the user regardless of the point of origin and cost ammunition equal to the number of attacks made by the user. That way it's not a...

Why did you choose to make them up as a leader? I would've thought controller or striker myself. I think it works, indeed it works even better with the historical role of Sha'irs, I'm just curious as to why. One other random thought: Perception has to be on the skill list. It was a huge...

This is being obtuse. An MMORPG and a Novel are organized exactly the same way in terms of continuity - spatially. MMORPGs have an additional temporal organization that actually makes them superior - when you go back to the park there will be at least a little while before the boss respawns...

I really think you're ignoring the number of circumstances and occasions where TRPGs do exactly the same thing.

I don't really know that this is true. A lot of the 4E classes are pretty simple: wizard and ranger in particular; and most of the rest are only slightly more complex than the simplest 3E classes and far less complex than the more complex 3E classes.

I'd support such a project. I think you could do a rough conversion pretty simply. The biggest load to shoulder under that strategy would be coming up with the races.

My little sister's baby sitter taught my brother and I to play. It was her first time to DM. She learned from her DM in the group where she played. This was in the early to middle '90s with 2E. She left for college a few sessions into it and I tried to learn how to DM from the books. Wasn't...

Serfs and peasants would also be making a lot of those goods for themselves. There's a reason Adam Smith uses the Highland Peasant as his archetypical opponent when he's advocating for increased specialization.

Computers weren't accountants, but otherwise you're on the right track, just give it time.

I really disagree with your analysis here: 1.) If this is a functional value for narrative then printed books also fail at conveying narrative. Alice is always falling down the rabitt hole, Jack is always chopping the bean stalk, and Frodo is always fat and slightly bored in the shire. 2.)...

Interesting, can you appreciate then the irony of the negative stance on this issue versus the original meaning of the term computer?