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    Jonathan Tweet denounces Power Attack

    With our group it was (almost) always used in sets of five... or for full. I won't be too heartbroken to see it go.
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    Magic Item Hate

    I voted Boring, Common, Need and Other. I don't mind the Glut category so much (that you have a variety of items) but I hate that once the party all ahs a +1 Cloak of Resisance then you have nothing left to do when every NPC has that +1 cloak - and every NPC has that cloak because it is...
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    . . . while you're at it. . . Fix heavy armor!

    For my group it's the Breastplate style of Medium Armor. Heavy Armor gets used all the time. Medium Armor tends to lowers your land speed the same amount as Heavy Armor. Multiple classes lose abilities when they wear Medium Armor; Bard, Ranger (I could have sworn Barbarian did as well but...
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    Help me make a soundtrack for a Sharn police mini-campaign

    You mean no one has suggested Bad Boys for the opening theme yet? For chase music the first thing that comes to mind is "Bam, Bam, Smash" from The Bourne Supremacy soundtrack by John Powell (it's the taxi/hummer road chase at the end). A lot of the Bourne stuff is very moody as well, Main...
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    From the WotC Boards: Mearls on 'Aggro'

    I'm glad they tested it. I'm glad they ditched it, but I'm glad they tested it. I'd be very surprised if they didn't get something that worked well out of this; such as a new feat/ability, spell or a skill use. And that is exactly why I'm glad they tried it. It didn't work but now they...
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    How does striking an opponent heal your allies?

    The weapon itself missed (the PC had the actively dodge - thus the hp loss) but some of the poison (flying off because of the swing) landed on bare skin.
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    D&D 4E Merric's thoughts on 4e

    Nobody expects The Hong Inquisition!!!
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    Players, DMs and Save or Die

    "No Save-or-Die" does not equal "No Death" Even if it did... "No Death" does not equal "No Consequence From Failure" Have horrible things happen to other people; have friends and family mercilessly slaughtered. Have the PC's home town obliterated. Have the PC's spouce/lover/whatever fall in...
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    Find the Anime Challenge

    Yes, there is a specific reason. If my last post wasn't proof enough - Eye kan't spel wel. Ambiguous would require me to look up the spelling or at least require a spellchecker. I'm lazy so I went with the word that I could look at and say - Yup, that looks right. Seriously - I thought of...
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    Find the Anime Challenge

    Anyone can correct me if I'm wrong... but what I think is meant that if 100 people use a term and there seem to be 100 different meanings behind the term whith no apparent common ground, that the term itself is not useful in the discussion. (I say "apparent" common ground in the way people 1...
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    Players, DMs and Save or Die

    I'm a player - not a DM. Short answer: Yes, it is unacceptable. Long answer: There should be a climax to the story. The non-fight between Batman and The Joker mentioned above works because The Joker wasn't a fighter (at least in the movie - I won't go into the comics because I don't read much...
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    D&D 4E Rant on the 4E "Presentation"

    Yes. The numbers may change so then thy risk people having seen the numbers to claim that WotC lied to them (people are already claiming this - justified or not - but from WotC's standpoint the less hard evidence the fans can throw at them the better). Let's say there is a wizard power called...
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    How soon will you switch?

    I'll be getting the core books when they come out. Other than that it's "when my DM switches over" and I don't know when that'll be. Maybe when the campaign we just started is over - maybe we'll switch at some point and maybe we won't switch for a while afterwards. I guess my poll choice is...
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    Attention WotC: Drop the must-sign-in thing until it works, please.

    I haven't had any problem either, but I setup my login during the first couple of days. Email their support people and point out the threads where people are having issues. At least that way WotC (maybe not the right people at WotC - but someone there) knows that the issue exists.
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    Is 4th edition getting soft? - edited for friendly content :)

    Sure, that final die roll may be the one that pounds the final nail in the coffin but it took multiple rolls to get there... The attack, the confirmation of the critical, the d10 from the bow shot or the ten dice of damage that the fireball caused. That last die from the fireball may be the...
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    Game Day mini = Spined Devil

    I think one of the issues with the Ogre Mage rework was that he looked at the name and saw "Ogre" in it while the orginal basis of the critter wasn't really an Ogre at all. This is backed up by his line "Cone of cold does lots of damage, but it might be hard for the ogre mage to avoid catching...
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    What format do you prefer for the gaming material you use?

    I gotta go with "both". I like print if I'm browsing or reading the book for the first time. If I'm looking for something specific I prefer electronic - even when I can't "search" the document.
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    Find the Anime Challenge

    I second the motion on the floor. I'm reading the thread for the discussion on the supplied pictures, not the discussion of the sig that is up for grabs.
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    Design & Development: The Warlock

    Mark me down for not likeing the forced dark flavor of the class. It doesn't bother me that there are Dark options and I would actually like to see talent treess (oe whatever 4e is going to call them) for really Dark aspects of a PC - but lets get some Light ones as well. Let the player decide...
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    Find the Anime Challenge

    [hijack] We're anti-sharks now? When did this happen? [/byejack]
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