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Compare it to the Knight or Slayer. This is the fully fleshed out version.

From my two decades of D&D experience over multiple editions, this is normally what the game boils down to most people. You break into the orcs' stronghold, murder them, and steal their pies. The fact that one of the party was a Lawful Good paladin never changed that, since orcs are evil.

I keep a description of my character's alignment on a card that I keep in front of me. Whenever I consider an action that is questionable, I read the description again and ask myself "Is this an action that a truly Good/Lawful Good/whatever character would take?" After I answer that, I decide...

I wouldn't show Bible stories to my children, but that's because I'm an atheist. As for things like Brothers Grimm and other children's literature that is dark and bloody, I would have absolutely no problem showing my children if they are interested, so long as the stories do not depict graphic...

They aren't. This has been blown hugely out of proportion. The majority of them are not violent or graphic in any way, and the ones that do reference that stuff are a small list (blinding, crippling, isolated, eternal torment, plague, to the pain), and even several of those are from literature...

Fans don't have superiors to report to, deadlines and schedules to meet, and meetings to attend. They also have the luxury of spending as much time as they want doing what they want, whenever they want, whereas the paid employee does not (and he certainly isn't going to do a ton of free work on...

I don't really get the moral outrage or the complaint about "new mechanics" (the article contains exactly zero new mechanics, just suggestions on using existing mechanics). Most of these are relatively tame compared to what I've seen D&D players describe for decades. Imprisonment: Not exactly...

Me too. Scott was the man when it came to assuaging our fears and getting us excited for upcoming products. Plus, the man knew his memes.

That's the thing about the other racial features the dwarf has: they balance out that loss of accuracy/damage with other factors that make a defender more effective (keeping himself up, stickier with +Wis, can't be moved around or knocked prone easily). No. It explicitly only adds to a push...

I'm pretty happy about it, especially since GW monsters can be dropped into 4e no problem.

Is the character proficient with longspears and greatspears? It won't show me equipment with which my character is not proficient.

Even worse is that it was in there before they did the change to make the immediate interrupt part of it into a power writeup (which is a good idea). The same thing happened with Warlock's Curse, which is not in power format in the PHB, but is in the Compendium... except they actually included...

You said that the CB likes to "pretend" that Combat Challenge is a power. That's wrong. It isn't pretending. Combat Challenge IS a power according to the most updated version. The problem is that you are relying on an outdated version when for 2 years, it's been common knowledge that the...

No. Gamma World is twice the cost, lacks a fundamental tool for beginning play immediately (dice), and requires you to read it before playing. The Red Box is cheap, comes with everything you need to open the box and begin playing, and its character creation process eases you into the concept...

I concur. It is quite brilliant and does solve the primary issue with outdoor tiles.

The last sentence in the class feature entry for Combat Challenge is "In addition, you gain the Combat Challenge power."

Not quite. Some rules for classes has been missing, such as the Beastmaster Ranger's rules for the Beast Companion. However, Combat Challenge suddenly going missing is a huge problem.

Non-tile maps mean one of two options for me. First, I print out a blown-up version of the map and it looks crappy. Second, I redraw the map and it looks crappy. With tiles, I get use out of products I have purchased, and I feel that Wizards is supporting the products in the same way they...

Well, as they flat-out stated in the HoS preview for the wizard spells that any wizard can take those spells, I don't see this being a problem.

Probably because of the centuries old classification of necromancy as a black art. That's a much stronger legacy than the modern thought of "it's just a tool like any other."