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I think he was showing hypocrisy. The post you attacked was about the exaggerated, poor roleplaying by players of a certain character type. Yours is the same.

It can be subverted, but my purpose was not to provide a metaphor that could not be subverted. It was to illustrate a point. If you understood my point, it did what it needed to do. ;)

There is no reason to keep ability scores anymore. Most people who are giving reasons just don't really understand the question. In 1E/2E, there was an enhanced bell curve to abilities that would be harder to represent (in that bonuses were uneven with respect to the score AND the score was...

Yeah, really Rogues shouldn't have been Strikers at all. They'd be much more in flavor of the fiction that inspired them as Leaders or Controllers. That is, they'd engage in dirty tricks that helped their allies and hindered their foes. This could even include the occasional well-timed sneak...

So many examples of still not understanding... Rogues don't have to be designed to be balanced against combat. RPGs do not have to be designed to be balanced against combat. The idea of the Thief in D&D was that they were worse than Fighters in combat in every single way. That's because...

What is OotS?

I think this point is somewhat odd given that the appearance of things like Tieflings and Dragonborn in those stories is always as monsters and never as heroes. In other words, them as a PC race is actually in diametric opposition to those stories.

If you think Rogues' inability to sneak attack things in 3E isn't fun, I feel sorry for you. I hope one day you find a DM who knows how to make the game fun for you. Many will scoff at this sentiment, but if I am wrong then it was never fun to play D&D for the past 30 years... and yet it seems...

It worked for Warcraft! :lol:

If you hate so many D&D staples, why not just play a different FRPG? I ask this as an honest question.

Maybe he thinks they're terrible. That could remind him of Jar-Jar. ;)

Everything has joints. Sneak attacks are not hitting someone in the stinking knee! In fact, that is something a fighter could do without surprise. Sneak attacks are hitting vital organs which are normally kept protected by someone aware in combat. Limbs and joints are not hard to hit on an...

You gave no option for I don't care either way. :confused:

Sorry, I thought you were disagreeing with the original poster in a more specific way. My bad.

I'm afraid I am another who thinks you probably won't get what you hope for from 4E. A metaphor for what I see happening: In 1E, we had apples. In 3E, they changed things so we had apple pie. Yummy, but not as good for you. In 4E, they are simplifying it by giving us artificially-flavored...

I disagree. While movement was expressed in a tactical sense in 1E, it was not entrenched. Miniatures were really a sub-hobby. There have always been maps and miniatures gamers, but most people I played with did not use them. 3E really did ram maps down your throat. How are you handling...

One might say it's the reverse. Why portray "half-humans" who live in swamps and are good at Roguery by making them look black? D&D doesn't do a very good job of being multicultural in general. Depicting non-humans as a real world ethnic type is dodgy in general. Minefield! My only...

Man, I have no idea what you mean by it being more useful. And I have been playing since I got a Monster Manual in 1977, for whatever that's worth. All I know is you said "I don't care about anything" about 100 different ways. I guess you must really care about not caring!

What is with all these English teachers using contractions in written English? For shame!

This is a good point. Let's not start making mountains out of imaginary molehills. Also, "irregardless" is not a word. ;)