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Cool. Here's the current wording in the (edited) PDF, based on some customer feedback: Provoking an Attack of Opportunity Two kinds of actions can provoke attacks of opportunity: moving out of a threatened area, and performing certain distracting actions within a threatened area. Moving...

That's what I do.

So true.

Rust Monster. I frequently define my character by my possessions, yes-- but only by the possessions I happen to have at the moment. If subsequent to the Rust Monster encounter I go from being Korgoth the Plate-Clad Armiger to Korgoth the Stick-Wieldling Loincloth Guy, well, I'm cool with that.

No, the specifics of its complexity may or may not enable a richer play experience, just as the specifics of 4e's simplifications may or may not enable a richer play experience. I have co-opted a great many of 4e's simplifications into a richer, better play experience for me. And likewise...

Out of context, that is a little nutty. But BryonD specifically doesn't find the rules harder to use, and so rather he finds that "more complex" = "better," despite the fact that "more complex" = "harder to use" for a lot of other players. His assertion is that 4e is a "simpler" game (for...

Here's the conversation you're objecting to: I'm missing the part where he conflates New and Bad.

Thanks! Is it confirmed that I will face Wik in Round Two?

I didn't read that correlation at all. I interpreted him to mean, "4e is good if you are new and have no skills, and it is also good if you are bad and have no skills. In either case it is going to limit the development of your skills."

Absolutely. Where there seems to be a difference of opinion is in the proper response to a mechanical failure. If the engine just doesn't run, period, under any circumstances, then you need a new engine. If the engine fails because the operator keeps redlining it, then you have two options...

I could use a status update. Where does the competition stand at the moment? Is there a summary post being updated?

The DM cannot "cheat." He can run a good game or a poor game. Sometimes running a good game means thwarting the players. Sometimes running a good game means letting the players succeed. For some players, exactly the converse is true; and for some players, they don't want the DM to make those...

Wow. Unexpected and unintended, I'm sure.

I'm aghast that you would suggest that I am "aiming" at "targets." It is against the forum posting rules to ascribe motives to other posters. All of my posts are meant to be read verbatim without any inflection that is not present in the written word. Any such sarcastic or snarky inflection is...

And because 4e doesn't have any rules for how AC is derived that they can correct you on, it's smooth sailing? 4e actively changes the hearts and minds of your players? They really should have played that up more in the marketing.

I don't play D&D as a competition between myself and the players, so that definitely skews my perception a little bit. In my game, the intent is for everyone to have fun, DM and players. It's a cooperative play style. And in 3e, you absolutely positively cannot say, "It has appropriate...

It hints at a certain recalcitrance. Really? Snark is against the forum rules? I know. I used to dread the last hour of every session where I was required to hand over my DM notes to the players so that they could double-check my work for accuracy. Not to mention the fines subsequently...

I have won many rounds through (or perhaps in spite of) deliberately playing with the meaning of the words. No judge in my experience has ever dinged me because he had a specific word usage in mind that I failed to meet. Personally, when I see an ingredient like "rogue hydra," expect the judge...

:lol: It was more a matter of reframing your question to cover anybody else who might be more alarmist about it. If the subject's type changes, there will be interactions with other aspects of the rules where it does matter. It's a bit of a rules artifact, agreed.

Hmm. Indeed. The proudest moment of my life was when I finally got back my official 4e permission slip so that I could change my assumptions and start creating monsters according to my needs and goals, rather than slavishly following the process and being forced to care how I got there. 4e...