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I think you're being a little obtuse here. The issue isn't that they are interested in making money, the issue is the methodology. If you've ever taken any classes in marketing, it's been proven that it's cheaper to keep an existing customer than to generate a new one. I was a customer. But...

I looked through Spell Comp., the SRD, the Planer Handbook, the PHB...couldn't find the spell, so I can't comment on the RAW. Your question triggers that red flag: Just because it's in a book doesn't mean it was a good idea. What is the bar for an author getting a spell in a WotC book? How...

It's hard for me not to view new editions of D&D with anything but cynicism. I'm sure the game designers are earnest in their desire to create a better experience, to provide people with the best game they can manage. But as a company, WotC is driven by the need to make money and as you...

Really? You get Wild Shape at 5th level. At 6th level you get another feat and can take Natural Spell. How much training goes on such that a Druid can go from not being able to cast at all in Wild Shape to being able to cast without penalty? Let's be honest. The game doesn't mandate any...

Oooo. A typo on the Internet...what a scoop! ;) But that's the point of my original question. It's not clear that any given option was fully explored for "intended" consequences. In fact, it seem the extremes were the things that were specifically not tested. One can imagine an author...

I know ...I know. What was I thinking? EDIT: But let me poke the bear, PS and ask if, as a player, you know something is probably broken (virtual exploit), does it cheapen the experience to use it? Do optimizers ever cheese themselves out to the point of no longer enjoying the game?

I think we're still wondering if Damage Inc. is playing.

At what point does a person, especially a player, step back and say just because someone put it in a book doesn't mean it was a good idea? It's not like the authors have some robust scientific method for determining what things should be allowed. Making characters more powerful doesn't...

This statement typifies a common approach to D&D which I have always find ironic (and try to guard against with myself). No one balks at the idea that a Druid can change into an animal and can cast a spell without penalty because of a feat, but somehow an animal casting spells is so strange in...

Reading comprehension is not your strong suit is it? Seem you're the one who can't let it die.

I haven't checked how regional RAW dictates, but I would agree with Nuo that requiring a separate skill investment for every region/locale would undermine the usefulness of the skill in a mobile campaign.

Obviously you can Rule 0 anything you want. However, I would submit this is not how the Skill is supposed to function. Knowledge Local is essentially like Knowledge Geography except on a "local" level. Think of it as if you've read not only about the New England states, but specifically on...

Alertness, Feats.

As I have said, a lot of the perspective on this rant is dependent on who said what and how they said it. Many of us here are debating the acceptability of what happened, but in truth, I think it is because we are not all subscribing to the same set of assumptions about what did happen. If...

Understood. As I suggested above, I think people in discussions tend to latch or focus on to different things. When this happens, we end up talking over one another and seemingly disagreeing. But closer examination reveals that we are often talking about different things. Well, we only...

I'm somewhat loathe to be get back into this discussion given its polarizing nature, but you wrote something that seems so obvious, but perhaps has, in fact, been totally ignored by many. It seemed to me that RR had been pushed to the tipping point by the GM. At every important instance, the...

Making even more ridiculous analogies only digs the whole deeper. Definition of anlaogy: Definition of ANALOGY 1 : inference that if two or more things agree with one another in some respects they will probably agree in others 2 a : resemblance in some particulars between things otherwise...

If by that you are saying nobody else on these forums understands context, I am highly skeptical. Let's look at the quote you've taken out of context... If you and the subject have a common language, you can generally force the subject to perform as you desire, within the limits of its...

You can always hire someone to train the animal for you...or buy an animal trained for a specific purpose.

Four players. Two of us DM. We rotate DM's every level/module. We play the same House Rules. The DM's play two PC's as players and will keep one or more of their PC's on as NPC's when they DM, to bolster the party and keep some continuity for the non-DM's.