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And given not one of those eighty GURPS hit points would represent any kind of luck, skill, fatigue, or ability to turn a serious blow into a less serious one, it's also a correct point of view.

:\ Wait...three 90 degree turns in a charge? He knows you can't do that, right? I mean, unless he's sunk the feats into it (aren't they Psionic feats?), in which case I'd do it all the time. I paid for the ability, after all.

Alternative to....? And near as I recall marshal worked fine in the Minis Handbook, though I suppose there might have been some controversy at the time, I wasn't around here then. Find myself wondering if the 'halfling sheriff' gets the same 'Wild West' disdain, though.

Discussion is grand. I love discussion. Repeating the same (often nonsensical) gripe in every thread =/= discussion. Showing up in every thread to remind us about all the changes you personally hate =/= discussion. Painting doom and gloom pronouncements about the game's playability based on a...

Fail. Rounds were a minute up until 2000. Additionally, your misunderstanding of my disagreement is only one of a long list of issues I see are at play here. I see what you did there. Neither do I. Next? I'm gonna let you read that over, see if you can figure how Rainman comparisons might be...

Not a minis player (heh), but as far as I'm concerned: the astral stalker, Blood of Vol fanatic, new dryad, new sphinx, new ogre, shadow mastiff, troll, and the umber hulk are BAD-ASS. The crocodile, both sahaugins, the naga, and the manticore are bloody stupid. Also: tieflings are red, then...

Do you get your straw in bulk, or are you by some chance a farmer?

Which is, of course, best represented by 20 static goblin minis standing at perfect right angles to a battlemat grid. :confused: Well, thanks for the back-handed compliment, I guess. It's worked for 11 years and two and a half editions of D&D for me. I'd have to say the other skills I possess -...

*cough, cough* Man, you're getting it everywhere. Let the crows have run of the field for a second and follow how the conversation goes with a competent GM. DM: "Okay, ranger, you can attack. Go ahead." Ranger: "I attack, uh, goblin #4." DM: "Roll." Ranger: "Wait, how far away is the goblin?"...

Though I'm curious if that actually applies to the sort of fantasy source material new players will be familiar with or just the old stuff, and I have a feeling most fantasy fiction mages face less encounters and challenges over the course of a day than D&D wizards, let's assume it's otherwise...

My own interpretation (which I stand by as reasonable and accurate) is, again, that the books contain a preview of things that are in 4th Edition D&D, but they are not a preview of 4th Edition D&D.

I admit, as previews they weren't interesting. Of course, they were always a preview of what's IN 4e, rather than a preview OF 4e, so I wasn't all bent out of shape about it. But designer's essays on the why would interest me. I have a lot of questions about the "why" in some 1e rules (mostly...

I'm hoping, though I sadly doubt it, that they do one again come October for the special edition printing (with errata included) and my own birthday. :D

If it's the only game going, I guess. :/ Skills are for doing things outside of combat. A lack of skills means I have no way to meaningfully interact with the game world unless I'm smacking something with a dangerous bit of metal or casting spells on it; I'm just begging the GM for a treat...

I'm aware some people love minis, but for myself and my group they re-introduce too much wargame.

Despite hating alignment I've always loved the 'loths. They'll certainly find their way into my 4e games, by conversion if need be, as beings older than the Abyss and hailing from somewhere in the Astral Sea, so wrapped in secrets that every sage and arcanist who knows about them knows a...

I am, in fact, with you on Finger of Death, which is why I didn't bother to include it.

Wail of the Banshee isn't in my 1e or 2e PHBs...is it really that iconic a spell, being a 9th level spell that's only been in the game for one and a half editions?

Back in the days of dead tree Dragon, I found the fiction section to be wasted pages. With two exceptions, I just flipped pages until the articles started again, and one of those exceptions was the Feast for Crows excerpt/spoiler. They just...weren't very good. But since I'm unlikely to pursue...

Changes are most certainly stolen, but my group gets more use out of Rings of the Ram than one full-power shot per day so it'll probably stay charged at my table. Then again, I tend to house rule recharging items in, so maybe my perspective's different.