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I was using it in terms of fiction or story creation. The antagonist in a work of fiction is the character who opposes the hero, or protagonist. The antagonist, when there is one, provides the story's conflict. I wouldn't call orcs protagnoists, but I would call the orc king a protagnoist...

I don't believe he's talking about challenges. He's talking about antagonists. Those creatures that are elevated beyond the simple threat.

I believe he's talking about who the players view as antagonists, not who the DM chooses to introduce into the game. For instance at character creation the Ranger chooses his "favored enemy" which indicates, to a pretty large extent that any creature of that sort will be viewed as an antagonist...

I tried that once. Failure :( probably missing the same skills that make my miniature painting look like a Picasso painting lol Still a good idea though. I recently moved and had to leave behind my custom gaming table so I do need to starting working on Table 2.0. I might start with the...

I used to have a wooden dice tray that I used when I gamed at home, but never brought it with me. Recently I've been doing a lot of gaming at a friend's house and needed something to use while away. After searching around I found this . . ...

There are several issues at play here, very few, if any, that are about fighter/wizard disparity. Assuming we're not dealing with a Character v Character situation, but rather a Character v Encounter situation, then the issues are Fighter - targets DM encounter. The fighter is limited to the...

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See above. I was referring to martial/caster not 4e power sources.

I was referring to combat effectiveness as opposed to caster effectiveness. The 4e rogue was far more effective in combat than the 3e/2e/1e rogue, at least in my experience. Hence martial. I forget that abilities were linked to keywords in 4e though, sorry about the confusion. Equipment/gadgets...

It's certainly the intention of the thread. The question is what is equal when it comes to abilities and choices. And the answer is, it depends :)

Aside from 4e, the rogue has never been a martial class. It has always been an "inbetween class" along with the Monk and Bard. I have always felt that it should be martial and appreciate 4e giving it a place there. I'd like to see the Rogue better at hitting than the fighter (but only in certain...

Combat tier, not combat actions, sorry if there was confusion. The reason why I fit those into the combat tier is because of the radius of effect. If you're using a 20' radius spell to light a campfire, seems like an overkill (which for me falls into the combat tier, much the same way as killing...

Those are all combat uses for the spell. (and by combat I mean destroying things rather than interacting with things). Any suggestions for non-combat uses, such as social and exploration?

I was under the impression that the only reason undead were evil was because the spell used to create them was labeled [evil], at least in 3.5. Why are those particular spells labelled evil is just as relevant a question and one I've seen posed many times. I think it's mostly just a choice by...

I was actually thinking that it would make a pretty cool change to cantrips, nice to know that others think the same way :) I don't expect D&D to go that direction, but it would be nice to have multipurpose abilities. Why design to silo into the three tiers when you can design to encompass all...

This should be the case with all abilities and in reverse. Sneak Attack isn't necessarily the problem, the problem is that it's not usable outside of combat. What is the skill set that the rogue has to be able to perform a sneak attack and how can that skill set be used out of combat to do other...

Pretty much sums it all up.

Yes.

While it may be true generally, don't really know, the last group I gamed with, all 30-50 year olds, were all digital.

The issue with the rogue is that she plays like a martial, acts like a caster, and is all about the fluff. In my experience, the further you shift the rogue away from martial (removing sneak attack or reducing it) the more unsatisfying the class is to play. In 3.5 there were some fun feats that...