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Chubs, my Ayn Rand Knowledge isn't enough to know why your player(s?) are speaking out, but if you don't play the game to enjoy it(hedonism) then why play at all?

In general, no, I wouldn't be interested. Then again, I'm a known 4e fan, so that should be no surprise. Depends. I like rules light systems, in general. If it was somewhere between 4e and BECMI, probably yes. Between 3.5 and BECMI, well, it depends on how the system turns out, but maybe...

Noriaki looks embarrassed at Takahaan's words. He responds in a mere whisper. "It's nothing, Taka. How could I not be friend to one such as you? But let's not show our weakness now, by admitting we are scared. Our allies need our smiles, not our fears. This is what it means to be a man."...

When the corpse died next to me, I'd like to use soul step to back up to H12. Is that alright?

Satoshi lays a hand on Kjula's shoulder, imploring, "Please, call me Satoshi-kun. I am not higher than you."

Honestly, I wouldn't mind a split between combat and non-combat feats, but labeling any piece of mechanics as "roleplaying mechanics" would be a red flag to me. But perhaps that is due to my staunch view that combat can be great RP, and also the massive amount of abuse I've received at the...

I do this sometimes. You are almost certainly crazy. A mad man with a book, if you will. yep

My dad was a D&D/Fantasy fan when he was younger. Not much of one, but enough so that my grandparents' house was stocked with The Hobbit and some 1e books and a few other things. They figured it was kid's stuff, so they left it on the lower shelves where I could reach it by the time I was...

Song shakes his head slightly. "I hope you'll forgive me, madam, but I am a holy man, and my vows prevent me from partaking of alcohol. It smells lovely, though."

Noting Kjula's efforts, and not wholly approving of the road the party has begun to walk, Satoshi throws himself into investigating the walls. "Did you see something over here, my friend?" 1d20+9=14 Where dice fail, bonuses carry us onward to mediocrity.

Surprisingly, Howler seems to agree with Nave. He stands tall in front of the old beggar, letting his height and muscles be apparent. "Ol' wet breeches here is right. From up 'ere in the crow's nest, the only place they could've gone is under that bilgey water. If'n you don't have a better...

Noriaki rises in the morning, feeling unsettled by his forgotten dream. Once he is presentable, he finds the others and voices his thoughts. Everyone, I know you wish to rejoice, and you should. But I am thinking, that battle was too easy. Likely our troubles have just begun. " I...

As the elf pulls out his arrows, Canus manifests his icy blade in one hand and snaps the fingers of the other. As he does, a spinning ball of iridescent force shimmers into being and flies out toward the clockwork swarm, managing to break a nail or two. He turns his head to call out, "Riann...

Got your mention, Mark. I will go ahead and clarify. Now, obviously, if the rules being written that way doesn't work for you, it doesn't, and what I say won't change that, but maybe I can give a bit of insight as to why they do work for me. Now me, I like my rules clear and clean, I don't...

I think you're looking for a conflict in an article that wasn't meant to present one, but was rather meant to explain past actions, how the writer feels about them and what he's learned from them. No, I'm just kind of a moron and thought Mearls was writing the Rule of Three articles. I'm pretty...

if the problem is that not enough fluff was included, I fail to see how adding more fluff is anything but a decent solution. And this bare minimum you are talking about seems pretty silly to me. Look at the MM1, and then look at the Monster Vault, which was published with Mearls higher on the...

I vaguely recall it being suggested that one give exp for good roleplaying, but without guidelines for how much or how often, in my experience, it was always used when the Dm realized the party was less than 100 exp from levelling and would say, "Oh, yeah, you guys did good RP today, take the...

Hell, in that context, 4eDMG1 was excellent. I've never had a group get so much experience outside of killing things as I have since I started using 4e DMG1 guidelines.

I had a mixed vote as well. I want clear, precise language(jargon) for the rules, so they are clear, and thus avoid arguments. I also want a conversational bit where the designer tells me why the rules are the way they are, which helps me to know when to use them as designed, and when to...

The party I DM for, well, last time they took a prisoner, the assassin cut off his ears. They let him go, after. He's a party nemesis, now, because he really misses his ears. When I'm a PC, I often find myself being the only one in the group advocating mercy. Mostly, my groups have been like...