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Once 5e hits for real, the 4e forum on ENWorld is going to get moved to the Legacy forum. Wizards' forums are going to shift to 5e. RPGNet's D&D forum is for all editions/d20. PF gets its own forum here, and of course the PF forums at Paizo. In sum, there's no where to go to just talk about 4e...

Indeed. Additionally, for me it doesn't matter how many great modular things there are out there - if I think the core mechanics suck (see: opposing rolls, ability scores as saves), then that's a big problem. I may end up liking some of their modular subsystems (running a kingdom, keeps and...

At the same vein I've seen a lot of people implying they want 5e to be 1e-et al.

IMO if I don't like the fundamental rules that the game is built on, it doesn't matter what I add to it. The "Ability scores as saves" and "Opposing rolls" really soured me, and I have the feeling it would take a lot of work to tear those out of the system. Hell, the only things I've seen that...

Heroic High Action & High Fantasy with strong Story Elements and Tactical Combat. That get everything? :) In other words, strong Gamist/Narrativist games favoring larger than life characters who kick ass and take names.

So I assume dwarven females have beards?

Do you mean in terms of behavior, appearance, origins, what? Because IMO, regardless of what you do, players will probably play them as pointy-eared humans and 3 feet tall humans, because they are more focused on the adventure than acting like their race. Not to mention that people are drawn...

I would never go that far, but here's one way I'm going to do it: If a player has a high rank (or trained) in a certain skill, then they don't need to roll for something that would be easy for someone of their skill to accomplish. For instance, someone with x number of ranks in Open...

Your elbow is internet famous! :D Have you posted your feelings/opinions of the playtest experience anywhere?

Leave Stoat out of this!

You forgot possession/domination.

Meh. If I wanted to do what I'm seeing, I'd just pick up C&C or something else heralded as "old school". Which I don't. Yes, I'm aware that there will be modules to change it, but let's put it this way: if you have to put a whole lot of fixings on a hamburger just to make it taste good, then...

The reaction of your younger members is starting to become my feelings, reading various info. I'm glad you got to give Monte your feedback directly, and thanks for your report here.

My feelings exactly. I felt it really slowed things down in Shadowrun, Exalted and Dresden Files. It also makes way, way too much randomness for my tastes, period. Talk about swingy.

I've only encountered 3 RPGs that had roll/counter-roll, and they always felt slow to me. So perhaps there are some out there which are quick and have it, but I've never seen them do both in play. That's the other side of the coin - MAD. Whenever ability scores are so prevelent, you either get...

The whole point of this discussion was me wanting to understand what an "Aragorn-style ranger" meant within D&D. :p

[/SIZE]Ewww. Instead of resolving things with one action, now you have to add a second action? That's going to add double the time just to resolve something. This also means that monster ability scores are really important. Something that I haven't been giving my monsters in a long time (not...

3 dead, 1 stalemate. @Tequila Sunrise ran a 1st level adventure for 4 pcs. There was an empty room with a pool that had 3 potions at the bottom. Since everyone was being cautious and I wanted to move things along, I jumped in the pool. The moment I reached for the potions, 4 water elementals...

It's easier to find games of the current edition than previous ones. So I'm updating because I want to actually play.

Sure, but those heroes of legend didn't have a revolving door in the afterlife. They came back once. Weren't you the guy who said you tried to kill a PC every encounter when Save or Die became regular? How many times were they getting Raised?