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Can’t really argue with you here since I personnally think that HP is a little bit of everything: minor physical wound, stamina, mental exhaustion, etc until the final blow that you fail to parry and knock you uncounscious.

Call it what you will, but I like to at least prepare some encounters for my players. So let’s say they need to move from point A to point B, they’ll have to choose which road to take, but each road will have an encounter design into it. In one way it could be a Star Destroyer intercepting...

I think we each draw the line at different point. For me I guess the line is drawn at common sense. I'm not asking my players to check their strength and look at the weight of everything they are carrying to see if they can or if it affects their movement, but I still ask them to write what...

Because there is people like you that care about those things, and that's okay. It is perfectly valid to want to play with that kind of information, to want a more simulasionist game. But for people like me, it is unnecessary... like the weight of every items carried. I just don't bother with...

You said that you can't have that kind of answer in a traditional RPG and I showed that you can. How you feel about that kind of answer is entirely a matter of taste.

I would not consider a scratch a wound unless you’re going for the death by a thousand cuts.

Why not? Why should the players really care if the travel takes 2 or 5 days? Just tell me your intention and I’ll make it fit in the narrative. Do you want to take the safest longest road or do you take the more risky shortcut? The road taken will determine if you arrive early or too late. Then...

Could be just a little scratch. Nothing serious if there was no poison involved.

It reminds me of Hyperspace jump in Star Wars. How long does it takes to get from point A to point B? The answer is (when watching movies, series or reading books): As fast or slow as the plot needs it to be, the heroes or villain will arrive just at the right moment, or just a little bit too late.

It's more than that, it also shares all the same mecanical basis. Characters have exactly the same attributes, use a d20 to roll for attack or skills but various different dice for weapons and damage, they all have HP and Armor class, when building a character you'll choose a race and class and...

Came to say exactly that. That’s why I never understand when people say 4e should have been called something else, that it would have fair better under another name. No, it would not. The brand name is a selling point and probably the main reason why people buy and try the game in the first...

I would be curious to know what he really said because that is the only part that is not a quote, so it could be the author interpretation. But regardless, I fail to see how 4e punish players with creativity… I’ve been playing and dming since the early 90s and never felt that 4e was limiting my...

PH3 also introduced the Skills utility powers that you could use a Feat to get, which would give the character one more power. I quite like those powers.

They included an optional rule in the DMG2 to get rid of magic item if you want to. Basically, characters got an additional bonus to attack and defense at miltiple levels to compensate. I personally use this rule in my campaigns.

It’s my personal favorite and still the one I DM when I play DnD. While daily powers were powerful and impactful (Barbarian daily were his way to enter into rage, Warlord daily that gave bonus for the rest of the combat, Warden polymorph, etc), what made the players party powerful was synergy...

Oh, another thing… while daily powers are very nice, they are not game breaking either. So if a player use one of their daily early, he doesn’t feel the need to rest to get it back before the next encounter… player classes are not built around their daily powers, they are still very deadly even...

I never had a problem with adventuring day in 4th edition, it could sometimes be only 1 encounter, sometimes 3. I balance the encounters difficulty accordingly. If it’s gonna be just 1 encounter, it’s gonna be a really hard one that still push the players; if it’s 3 encounters, I’ll make them a...

I believe they do. I believe they still care about the older players. Asking the opinion of the community via polls shows a will to listen to the current player base. Not changing for a new edition by making the future changes compatible is another way to try to keep the older players. You can...

Same for me. I've been playing TTRPG, Boardgames and Miniature games for about 30 years spending a lot of money on those hobby, and yet never went to a Con. Would love to one day, but still have to. Let's not forget that going to a Con is not just about wanting to go, it's actually a big...

It reminds me of the Prequel Trilogy when it came out. A lot of fans hated them, saying that it wasn’t Star Wars and multiple of other reasons. But those movies were mostly meant for children, not the older fans. 20+ years later, now a lot of fans have fond memories of the prequels, because...