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No, the efficient thing for the Dragon to do is to kill them beforehand and then do everything she just did anyway, thus making sure they're dead and at the same time making it worse for V by implying the V had a chance at saving them but failed because of hubris, saying "I'm going to kill them"...

I didn't know it was even possible to run out of healing surges in one fight. It's certainly not possible to use all your item powers, and it's seriously not worth it to just throw around all your dailies willy nilly, that's extremely inefficient, and it's something only newer players will do...

Con was too important in 3.x. A tenth level Wizard with 10 con had and average of 26.5 hp, one with 20 con had 76.5. That's absurd. The fact that Con's primary bonus is healing surges means it helps characters who intend to be constantly in combat, while characters who stay at the back don't...

Looking at them they're pretty much all personal taste or corner cases. Many of them are added new things instead of changes too. It's more a list of cool and interesting things people could add to their game than a list of "fixes". Exceptions like making Gambler +5 instead of +2 or making...

Well, I was going to post some thoughts, but you seem to have summed them up. We used Atlantean, found Borderer and Nomad to be uninspiring, but didn't find it to be a big issue overall. I did find that multiclassing hosed your defences somewhat, but I don't think it's a huge issue.

Reflex isn't attacked significantly more than Fort, and is attacked much less than AC. See here. Giving Dragon Sorcerers the ability to boost all four defences with two stats would give them an overly large bonus over most other classes, if a Fighter or Paladin can get away without a huge ref...

Make a plot hook out of it! It sounds like they want it to have a consequence, but that doesn't mean it actually has to be a proper punishment. If it was Exalted I'd say a spirit of magic comes and tells him off, makes him do something/blackmails him, but in D&D, maybe pushing the magic beyond...

You need to understand that Planescape as a "shared experience" hasn't existed for almost ten years. Nobody who grew up playing 3.5 is nostalgic about Planescape because there are no 3.5 Planescape products*. There are 27 year old gamers who have being played D&D their entire adult lives, and...

Actually, there are supposedly random encounters of which attack you if you choose the "bad option" but random encounters are unfortunately so rare that most people seem to play the game through without getting any of the interesting ones. But yes, the unconnectedness got to me too. On the...

Best Stories? Planscape:Torment KotOR Mass Effect That order. Special mentions for Star Control and whichever FF you feel like picking up. (9 was my first btw, and it holds a special place in my heart, but it's just not the same when you know Zidane isn't actually a chick) The Fallout games...

Hrrm, lets see what I can remember reading "recently". The first 6 Black Company books (including The Silver Spike), the three Bas Lag novels, King Lear, King Solomon's Mines, the First Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser novel/short story collection, Matter (Ian M Banks), the first four Thursday next...

As was mentioned in the the OP, Rolemaster is generally given as the example of a game that has too much crunch. Each weapon had it's own damage/crit chart which took up an entire page, as did each crit chart, as well as the several critical fumble charts. I can't remember how spells worked, but...

Powers assume your momentum is preserved. Rituals don't. It's simple, and it gets rid of most annoying issues while allow players to fiddle around with things if they feel the desire. It also meshes with most descriptions (Except for Arcane Gate, Wizard Utility 10, but that's it's own deal.)

I haven't been paying much attention to races recently, but this is the first full PC race that I've seen that gets a bonus to two stats which apply to the same defence, and doesn't get a flat bonus to another defence to make up for it (like the Eladrin and Warforged do). Has this become normal?

This was a very good argument, one I subscribed to myself, at least until the Swordmage came along. Most of the Swordmage implement powers do still confirm to to this, and shouldn't get such bonii, but specifically powers like Corrosive Rain and Lingering Lightning break the mould. These...

This is an oxymoron. They're there to encourage people to spread their stats around, but they're just as, or indeed more likely to trip up people who just apply their stats as they "feel right" as people who attempt to min-max without reading the feat section. (which is fairly poor min-maxing...

No they don't. They just need to make it part of the "Rage" keyword. That's what Keywords are for.

Note that the examples involves picking up an item from the ground, not picking an item of a table, which is much faster, and pretty much any Samurai from a movie is going to have quick draw, which specifically makes drawing a weapon faster than a free action, since it takes no action at all...

Ally means "willing target that you designate". There's no reason for it to get more complicated than that, game balance or verisimilitude wise.

The Wizards article with Drow with a PC writeup can be found here. It's a LFR thing, so you won't need to log in.