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Ooooo, that's cool! Hopefully we'll get our 1e tourney transferred to the Sagamore. For those interested, the numbers are RPG1008381, RPG1008380, RPG1008379, RPG1008378, RPG1008377, RPG1008376. We're having 3 different tables on two days. Glad to see WotC doing this. joe b.

Life is by its nature ephemeral. :) joe b.

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I'd call up Hasbro and ask "Where the hell are my D&D toys sets for kids? Where are castles and knights and dragons and playsets with the Dungeons and Dragons name on them?" joe b.

Yep. I find the idea offensive and wish it to die. joe b.

Heya all, I'm going to have to bow out of the conversation. I've got stuff I should have been doing that just can't wait anymore. (Working on setting up a First Edition tourny at this year's GenCon) and I've been a goober by goofing off so much here. Thanks for listening to me ramble and for...

There's no fighter with a shield. The object weighs more than 20 lbs. The party is level 6 and do not have level 11 items. Seeing them now? Anyway, this back-and-forth "it's just as creative" argument is a silly one because that assumes the argument was that the creativity lost by having a...

A creative use of a ritual would be the equivalent of you using a coathanger to unlock your car door, or using your car key to open a package from UPS. You could of course, argue, that using a coathanger to open a car door isn't a "creative" use, but creative in this discussion has been "a use...

So the wizard is in the same scenario you described as being the one who can outshine the rogue using rituals? I'm a bit confused. You say it was bad that a 3e wizard could outshine a rogue by using spells, I then said that anyone in 4e could do the same, and now you are saying that not anyone...

Wow, I musta missed that one. That's some bad advice, there Lou. joe b.

In some way, I'd agree. I think 2e became more about "playing the character" but that doesn't have to mean it was about "challenging" the character as opposed to the player. I think "playing the character" can be entirely separate activity from challenging the character. IMO, the issue of...

Yeah, I've got something like 11 4e GSL licensed products and am probably the 2nd? largest 3rd party publisher for 4e in terms of content published. I'd say Goodman was 1st. Hell, I've got the Freeport 4e Companion coming to print this month, in fact. Publishing for a system, however, doesn't...

For the same reason a 4e rogue wastes time ferreting out a lead when anyone now in 4e can consult mystic sages, consult oracle, detect secret doors, comprehend languages, view location, or wizard's sight... etc... The group as a whole is more effective outside combat due the ritual system than...

That Mitchell and Webb Look. Great show, IMO, and a particularly funny sketch. But that's quite a bit of hyperbole for an example. It's not like wizards are summoning angels to fix every problem. :) And having that ability can lead the party out of "trying to creatively seal a door because...

Of course. Speaking generally, the more specific a rule becomes, the less likely a creative use will be found for it outside of how it synergies to other rules in the system. The more rules one has, the higher the probability of the players running into "You can't do that that way, because the...

No. I'm not "beating on rituals." No. I'm saying that because of the ritual structure, the things that were obvious in prior editions (waterbreathing to save a drowning party member) as well as thing that are not obvious (using waterbreathing to do something creative- don't ask me what as what...

Possibly, as long as the 5 minute limitation wasn't a factor. The cantrips in 4e have a lot of utility and potential creativity in them. My creative use example, as I said, wasn't really that creative, but just an example of using something unexpectedly to achieve a purposed not thought of when...

This post is a prime example of what I've been saying all along. Imagine if the player didn't have Mage Hand, Prestidigitation, Ray of Frost (maybe?), Thunderwave, Icy Terrain, Feather Fall, or Bigby's Icy Grasp and only had Web to use as a tool to rescue their drowning friend. People here...

I had as an example of something lost between editions, but not as an example of creativity using a spell. My example of creative use was continual light used not as a source of light for vision, but as a lure to get a big fish up from a deep river. Hey, I'm not that creative. *shrug* Continual...

If by pocket change you mean 1/2 the wealth of the mage or 1/8th the total wealth of a group of 4, sure. If a party wants to do that, more power to them! joe b.