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No, it doesn't. I think their decision makes total business sense considering the lack of a finished GSL at this stage in the game. And if they really do believe that continued support of a 3.5 based game system beyond the point where they could switch to 4E makes sense, I support that decision...

Depends on how you want to resolve the conflict. At the least, a strength check against a static DC to see if you're strong enough to actually perform the act. Or maybe opposed strength checks, with the zombie getting a chance to rip off your arm if you fail the check. Or a strength check vs...

*nod* As the system currently works in 3.5, someone that gets old has a lower con score because their bones get brittle and their organs stop functioning as well. So, it wouldn't be that much of a stretch to say that undead with physical bodies have Con scores, and that this score loosely...

Ok . . . So the above paragraph says what, then? It certainly doesn't say, "We think 4E is going to be awesome and we'll switch over to 4E as soon as we've had the rules long enough to develop a full length Pathfinder AP using them." I've highlighted the last sentence, as it most clearly...

Basically, that's exactly right. Rather than being animated by the vitality of one's flesh, they're driven to a mockery of life by sheer force of will. Things are a bit different in the case of crafted undead like Zombies or Skeletons, as it's the caster's will that motivates them.

And yet the proud minority will soldier on. Carrying the torch of Grognardism forward into the future, that it may be given to Grognards not yet born, that they too can practice their inalienable right to scoff, condescend and look askance.

*insert my response post where I mention Snakes on a Plane*

Eh. I would have been just as happy (probably even happier) if they had Charisma function as Constitution for Undead. Still, having a Con score of some sort does make things simpler in some respects.

Thanks for the snarkasm. I totally couldn't understand that basing a major business decision on the results of a forum poll wasn't a good idea. With your clarification, I now understand. Look, just because the favored pro/anti debate technique currently consists of implying that your...

Wow. I think your post just singlehandedly pushed me into the pro-4E camp. This is not the sort of gamer I am or want to be. A game should be fun and that's it. None of this "my game is more intelligent than your game" bull. Only if WotC is feeling particularly vindictive.

So what, is this now the default answer any time any company incorporates a rule someone doesn't like into any RPG rule-set? Paizo may or may not be making a good business decision and only time will tell. I certainly hope that they based their decision on solid market data and not on some poll...

Well. This is business. Sometimes you make risky decisions because you have to. I do think there's going to be a subset of folks who either start off or become unhappy with the wholesale of Resource Management from the game that 4E is effecting. I doubt this means they will have to "shutter"...

Oh Knows!!! The Sky Is Falling!! *cue predictions of Paizo's doom by not cowing to the inevitability of 4E's domination of the RPG market*

I believe you're talking about Iron Tide? In the recent sessions of the game I'm running, I've started bolting elements of 4E onto the "monsters" in my encounters to see what happens and Iron Tide was by far the one that was the most interesting and useful. The ability to push a character away...

See, this is what I'm saying. Internet polls on a message board are not a good way to assess what your market wants. A better method is to add a cardstock insert to your next shipped publication that doesn't require the customer to pay for postage. The insert can ask directly whether they want...

Besides WotC own marketing, what real test of the "reception" of the 4E game has there really been? People point to the boards, but frankly I think we're just fanboys either way. The bigger question is what their customers want and I suspect they just don't know the answer to that question. No...

Heh. I wouldn't take their lack of a response too personally. They're sorta known for that, as I understand it.

Well, the easiest way to handle this is to simply state that after completing some sort of adventure, nothing happens for X amount of time. No adventure hooks are proferred. Any old hooks that are pursued turn out to be dead ends or already "solved." Random forrays into the countryside to find...

Well duh. The answer's easy! You handle it Kung-Fu Movie style! Each Slavelord waits patiently for the prior to get his butt kicked, and when the last one's standing he laughs over badly dubbed non-english lines before announcing that he will now finish the part off once and for all. Then he...

Honestly, I think a lot of it just boils down to not trusting WotC to put out product of as high a quality as they want. So, they (I should say we as I do this as well) start parsing every bit of info that's available to see where the next "screw up" is. There's a lot about 4E that sounds cool...