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For the bow ranger in our game he uses Nimble Strike or Evasive strike to be able to attack without provoking an OA and then use his move action to get clear of the melee.

You are a melee combatant but you are a squishy one. Moving out of melee forces monsters to move to attack you if they want to take you out. This provokes OA's from your friendly neighbourhood defender, quite possibly stopping the monster in its tracks. Next round you move back into melee...

Many Ranger encounter powers give two or more attacks, most adding stats to damage. Why wouldn't you use them over Twin Strike?

Most of the things I like. I missed off stuff like weapon groups and proficiencies as they are neither here nor there. Their existence doesnt detract from the game but I wouldn't miss them if they weren't there. Things missing from the list that I really like: The disease track Artifacts...

If exploration is something you are interested in and want to promote then tracking light sources is probably a good idea. If it isnt that important to you then its not liksly to be comething you bother to track. Exploration is something I and my group are pretty much disinterested in so it...

An elven cleric who increases Dex and Wisdom and avoids Charisma dependant powers works perfectly well. Take the Ranger MC to pick up Stealth and you can even add a few ranged attack powers if you want to pack some longer ranged punch.

This is a very one sided account of things. There were asshats on both sides of the argument. I have seen just as much ridiculous over the top hyperbole from those who didnt like the new edition and just as much screaming incoherent hysteria. Some of those people still post here, some of...

Really? Because i am finding it significantly easier to run a Sword and Sorcery Elric/Conan inspired game in 4e currently than I ever did with 3e. Past about level 8 3e too easily resembles caped crusaders.

Your market research must be impressive to make such claims. Or you could just be a tiny bit biased. I wonder which it is.

Because they weren't popular. I dont think I have ever seen a thread from anyone talking about how cool their gnome or half orc was until 4e came out. Its some sort of weird geek fallacy at work I am sure. WotC took our gnomes, now we must rend our garments and beat our chests in impotent...

All of the races in the back of the 4e MM are playable which adds another dozen or so, including Gnomes.

Because it has been enormously enjoyable. It has given us what we want in a game at the moment. There is a decent level of interesting tactical crunch, some loose and adaptable rule support for social and exploration stuff and the rest of the system gets out of the way when actually playing...

As does mine.

I like plot driven games which are about the characters. It requires quite a lot of discussion before you play but has provided us with the most satisfying games.

This is simply not true. We have played through the entire Heroic tier to date using just the core books without any problems whatsoever. I could quite easily run a game to 30 using nothing but the core books. Because each class (excepting spellcasters) now requires a much larger page count...

I and my group are all in our 30's with 20+ years gaming experience each. 4e has been embraced wholeheartedly by us and most of us havent played D&D for over 6 years. EDIT: I didnt vote as your poll does not have the "Play the game you enjoy and stop bitching about games other people enjoy"...

The Orb of Inevitable Continuance is a Magic Item, not the Wizard class ability.

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I found something your OP seems to be missing, its the EXCLUDED MIDDLE!

I think your comments suggest that you havent actually read the modules being discussed as both H2 and P1 contain plenty of open space. H3 contains less but that is to be expected given the set up.