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Oh good! Time to analyze! 1. Yes. 2. Yes. 3. Yes. 4. Yes. 5. Yes. 6. Yes. Hooray! There are plenty of game elements from your D&D edition of choice that break more than one of the standards you outlined above. Also, the idea that every game element has to match the experiences of our real...

Yes. That's sort of my point. Which is a loaded way of presenting the issue. The mechanics and fluff both make sense from the start, and there's no need to "do the designers' jobs for them". Not really. D&D will be fine without people who can't get past the idea that rolling under the...

Then consider me clarified. I don't think anyone else actually thought I meant that hit points were never lost due to physical injury.

Of course hit points represent physical contact, but that's not all that they represent, as I pointed out.

So an attack that misses but causes an enemy to dodge out of the way in a foolhardy manner, accidentally cracking his skull on a table/knocking himself unconscious on a door/impaling himself on a spike/tumbling off a cliff/stabbing himself with his own dagger, etc., despite being perfectly...

And this is why these arguments are silly. When a very slight change in flavor (not mechanics!) turns utter rejection of a rules element into acceptance, you have to ask yourself why anyone needed the flavor text changed in the first place - after all, this is D&D. If you don't like the flavor...

Then the question that deserves to be asked (and I'm sure the designers of the game are asking it of themselves constantly) is: Should the rejection of core principles of abstraction - principles that have a defensible gameplay raison d'etre, as well as long-standing tenure in D&D's history - by...

So do you reject the long-standing, fundamental assertion of D&D that states that hit point damage is not a reflecting of physical injuries sustained, but rather the ability to dodge, turn hits into near-misses or scrapes, sheer luck, and determination to fight? In other words, the assumption...

Hit point damage is an abstraction that does not necessarily have anything whatsoever to do with a sword coming into contact with your enemy's flesh. Basically, I have a hard time seeing how this is something to complain about, from a believability standpoint, unless you reject the fundamental...

If I recall correctly, Flash is only required to support video chat. I've also heard that they're working on a Google+ Hangouts client. I'm not sure what platforms that will require.

This is the hottest project out there right now. It's still in closed beta, but it's thoroughly awesome.

I don't know that this thread is going to last, but here's a copy of LogicNinja's Being Batman guide.

Does this honestly surprise anyone? Using the Pathfinder rules in an MMO is a truly terrible idea. Let's assume that Paizo is not in a position, financially, to be able to safely cover the significant start-up costs of their MMO project. Would you rather they just give up and not undertake the...

Then don't fund it. It's a Kickstarter. Everyone funding it knows what they're funding. Goblinworks has 0 credentials for anything - they're a brand new company and this is their first project. Goblinworks employees, on the other hand, have at least some credentials for making ideas happen in...

It's pretty straightforward guys; if you think the project is dodgy, don't fund it. Given the history of the company, there is no reasonable chance that you're being maliciously scammed.

I like it. Kickstarter is fundamentally about supporting the things you want to see in this world. Reward levels be damned, it's a way of saying, "The world does not have this thing that I think the world really ought to have, and I am going to throw my tangible support behind making this thing...

Second. Concern trolling is a thing.

I agree, and it strikes me as implausible that Monte Cook wasn't at least moderately familiar with 4e's mechanics. And that's precisely why some of us find some of his writings so remarkable.

I would consider it problematic (to say the least) if one of the game's lead designers was this unfamiliar with the current state of the industry. To have not made oneself intimately familiar with 4e when you are personally charged with developing its successor strikes me as lunacy. I'm not...

Very few set out to start a war, but it's remarkable how many are fine with firing the first salvo.