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You're trying to defend a business decision that may or may not be a correct one. One of the goals of Astrid's is to get more women into our hobby. If one of the hurdles for women entering roleplaying is the inclusion of sexually slanted art or a lack of somewhat more realistic gaming...

I'm making the assumption that, by the addition of "allegedly," you are implying that you are skeptical that white males have more influence in today's modern society. Is that correct, or are you trying to be egalitarian about the situation? This is promoting relativism, which I think is...

Using this logic, the Black Majority of South Africa during Apartheid was "in power," and so was the Shiite majority under Sadaam Hussein. The point of Astrid's is to provide a valid sounding board for concerns that are usually drowned out on typical gamer boards. Women are a tiny minority in...

Well, if I were to speculate, I'd say that Wizards perceives itself as now in competition with its own invention due to the existence of the OGL, and the company is possibly looking for ways to (1) Remove the competition (possibly explaining a refusal to accept work from anyone tied to an...

The pacing of 3.x was abysmal, and, in my experience, differed from 1e/2e quite a bit. The ability to go through a dungeon or raid a palace without taking a break to sleep is a major step forward. Resource Management still exists in the game- every class has daily abilities, and per-encounter...

Hmm, I guess there's where we differ. You see it as a problem, and I see it as a feature. Mordenkainen's Lugubrious Lucubration is one of the most obtuse and cryptic terms I've ever read, in or out of D&D, and I absolutely adore it. Same with every name on the list I made. I like names with...

You're introducing an artificial difference. The Barbarian can use his rage once per encounter and then is winded until the end of the encounter, which is actually MORE dependent on the encounter dynamic than anything that 4e has put forth. And there's plenty of other examples of these...

Why does everything have to be different than 3e? 3e was perfectly good at roleplaying, not so good at some other things. If they didn't bother modifying the parts that worked well, isn't that a good thing?

... as opposed to Diamond Body, Abundant Step, Quivering Palm, Tongue of the Sun and Moon, Indomitable Will, A Thousand Faces, Mordenkainen's Lugubrious Lucubration, Eyebite, Entropic Shield, Rary's Mnemonic Enhancer, Sepia Snake Sigil, Storm of Vengeance, Simbul's Spell Matrix, Simbul's...

How is this different from the Barbarian's Rage description in 3e? He fatigued "until the end of the current combat." There is no practical differentiation. Similarly, every spell-like ability in the game was 1/day, 3/day, so on and so forth. Since "day" rather than "encounter" was the...

Okay, I laughed at: Version: 4.__e I love it when a company can poke fun at itself.

Ahem... Check out Force Orb and acid arrow. Not as easy as it sounds, unfortunately.

From what we've seen, characters gain a fixed 5 to 7 hit points a level, depending on class. If you really like randomness, I see nothing wrong with adding a d3 roll to modify the added hp. Since the average d3 roll is two, merely subtract two from base hp added and you have the exact same...

You get first level HP by calculating base hp (by class, either 10, 12 or 15 so far) + Con Score (not modifier). Thus, the dwarf fighter, con18, has hp of 15 (base fighter hp) + 18 = 33. Of course, the second part of this is that you will gain few hps as you level, since con modifier is no...

That's like saying "why would I buy The Lost City when I already have Keep on the Borderlands," assuming the module is good. I don't quite get it- that many people ordered the thing just for a preview to 4e, instead of it being the first 4e module? I'm not downing that approach, mind you- I...

That's why I said would change it, but didn't mention any specific change- I'd LOVE to find an elegant distinction to those two. The closest I have is "any reflex attack that targets a singe creature," which is passable, I suppose.

Meh. I think people are making far too much of this crit possibility. One time in twenty you'll get a really bad result. Big deal- that happens all the time, even in 3.5e. Ever have your fatespinner decide to reroll that Will save of 17 because the die roll was a 2 and he wanted to be...

Sure, let's do that. Your method is statistically inaccurate, since you're assuming that the displacement will always be needed on one of the rolls. If you don't mind, I'm going to use an 11+ to hit, since it gives us a nice, even 50% for calculations' sake. Shielding Smite: 42.25% of the...

You're making the odd assumption that having an immediate action available is more important than having a standard action available. While I'm sure there a plenty of cases where this is true, you should acknowledge that having the freedom to take whatever standard action is most helpful...

the reflex > AC situation is going to be anamalous- we've yet to see a situation where it actually happens in either a monster or character, though I suppose that if there's a +1AC armor a rogue will exhibit the issue. Considering the number of bizarre anamolies that have come down the pipe...