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No, you don't become a furry. You become a tiger. Whose claws do the same damage as the weapon you were wielding.

Maybe you're making bad statblocks. I love flicking through the monster manual and going, "I can't wait to use that on my players!" Seriously, though, I don't play D&D because it has a good implied setting, I play it because it has a robust rules set I can turn to my own purposes.

This reads like a haiku. It's always been the case that characters will have specialisations or exotic weapon proficiencies in particular weapons. Heck, your dwarf might find a magic longsword but prefer to stick with his axe because the imagery is better. I guess I don't really see how this...

To be honest, the problem here seems to be more that orb wizards prevent anyone from ever passing a saving throw, not that spells are overpowered.

My monsters have killed about five player characters so far, and I don't even play that often. You're wrong.

:D By mixed, you mean "scathingly derisive" :)

I used to read it pretty religiously back when it was a bunch of guys playing D&D and making jokes about the quirks of the rules system and how players interact with it ("hold on guys... I think I just failed a spot check", and how the wizard's familiar only exists when she needs to get a bonus...

I don't really get all this absolute need to have the most optimal race ever for your class. For me, race is far more about the concept for my character rather than the stat modifiers. Sure, I had my spate of playing the heck out of dragonborn when I first started 4e, but I grew out of them and...

You're missing out. LAN parties where you get a bunch of friends to bring their computers round to your place and play some games all night are a ton of fun. You get your "social atmosphere" fix that way too.

Came into the thread expecting to be disappointed - a lot of 4e artwork is really poorly done and looks like it was made in Poser (PHB page 203, anyone? The elf looks dreadful, the foreshortening is plain bad and the dragon looks like someone took a photo of a D&D miniature from four inches...

I'm not going to spend loads of time on it, but you can make a party entirely out of clerics and they'll be better at your average D&D adventure than 90% of "balanced" parties - the problem gets worse and worse as you get higher level and clerics start to get blasting spells comparable to...

I'd probably play out a few practice combats (with your players, or on your own) just to see if it does what you want it to. My concerns might be that focussing attacks on individuals would become too powerful - it might be easily possible for monsters played well to take out the party leader...

I don't understand how you get from the first half of your statement to your second half. Surely characters with better stats will be able to steal/acquire more than those with worse? And since when was the point to "make the game less combat focused"? It sounds like you're answering the...

Maybe two hits to kill unless they get criticalled (in which case they instantly die) would be a good rule also.

I would dearly love to see a 4e video game that was multiplayer and turn-based (for combat only). I would play that to death with my friends. I do think that 4e is a more video-game friendly rules set than 3e or previous, just because of stuff like spells - managing them, the horrible effects...

Came in hoping for some kind of lightning-based bad guy. Left disappointed.

I shoehorned Shadowrun into D20 modern once - it was a huge mess, wildly unbalanced, and was overall more trouble than it was worth.

I always wanted to completely subvert this cliche by playing a Dwarf rogue. He would be scrupulously honest, extremely good with locks and traps (trained as a locksmith dontcherknow) and would carry a big hammer with the rune for "open Sesame" on it. You know, because some locks are just too...

I started D&D back in about 1995, playing 2e at a friend's house. When 3e came out, I bought the core rulebooks and started my own game. I bought a couple of supplemental books along the way. When 4e came out, I got the core rulebooks and started my own game. In fourteen years of gaming, the...

I ran Keep on the Shadowfell to start me off, and it was pretty good and straightforward. Pre-printed maps are awesome as well. The only thing about it is that it is definitely a massive dungeon hack - there are lots of rather unimportant fights where you beat up some goblins who just happen to...