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It's just the way ppl often uses 4e=MMO=bad to be kinda annoying. CRPGs have been influencing and have been influenced by D&D long before 4e and MMOs showed up. But like I said before, CRPGs aren't the only inspiration for a boss monster. Comics, literature, anime, TV, movies etc. all have the...

May I suggest that we keep mentions of MMOs out of this discussion? Boss monsters are hardly a MMO creation. The idea of a big, badass dude who can take on your whole group of heroes all by himself has been around forever. Now, how you achieve the effect of such a "solo" boss is the...

His conclusion isn't wrong, just not applicable to the real world since most people believe in some form of afterlife. Whether those beliefs are true is immaterial, as long as they actually belief it is real and act accordingly.

Of course, even though cha was a major requisite, old edition paladins weren't doing anything with their 17 cha. It wasn't until 3e that cha was used to add to a paladin's save bonus and used for smiting.

The nature of D&D where characters tend to wear on their bodies more wealth than some nation's GDP makes tracking cheap, mundane stuff like arrows and food meaningless.

The paladins of previous editions (pre-3.x) was MAD as heck too. It was just that you couldn't play a paladin unless you were lucky and had multiple good rolls. It was probably the toughest class to enter because of its high stat requirements. Both 3e and 4e paladins has had MAD issues due to...

Is 1-1-1-1 less realistic? Maybe. Is it easier to use? Yes. Does it bother me? No more than the 3.5 rule that I have to center a burst or start a cone on a grid corner rather than on a grid space.

Of course, science has suggested that the universe may be non-euclidean, 4e is just incorporating the lastest scientific developments. :D But anyways, I don't find 1-1-1 to be a huge deal in our group. I take off a lot of hats at the door when I get into a game.

Related to the topic, I want to ask whether there is any difference between rolling in the game or rolling before the game. For example, when I plan my combats I pre-roll my monster initiative, I pre-roll monster stealth/perception checks etc. When combat happens during the game, I have to lay...

If we're talking about fictional characters, wouldn't Michael and the other Knights of the Swords from the Dresden Files series essentially be paladins? Granted, they got by mostly due to the NG/CG-ness of Dresden...

Once again TVtropes comes to the rescue: Green Thumb - Television Tropes & Idioms But basically anything that would fit an aggressive druid would fit the warden.

Hmm...interesting. So Star Trek is S&S and Babylon 5 is HF? Forgive me for using scifi examples, but I don't really know any TV series examples for fantasy...well, I suppose Hercules and Xena would be S&S?

You can't blame WotC for this one. That began in 2ed by TSR. WotC just continued it when they bought D&D. Although to be fair, MtG had stopped making demons and demonic references for a number of years because of the same reasons.

I heard that the preview characters are mechanically built to fit their preview character art, which is why the ranger uses a crossbow and the fighter uses TWF. So I wouldn't put too much stock into thinking that they improved crossbows a lot... Don't know if it's 100% reliable, but it'd...

Carcassonne is a game you might want to take a look at.

Holy thread necromancy!!

I'm not sure I understood that metaphor, but now I'm hungry...:D

That depends on whether the ascended mortal believes what the messenger says is true. Alignment is no guide to truth or lies. Even something like detect lies can only detect whether someone is intentionally lying, not whether what someone is saying is actually true. Being powerful is no...

Normal people + anonymity + internet = douchebags. What interests me is whether the edition war seems to be dying down as time goes on. It seems that people are now congregating to forums that mostly matches their opinions.

I have never been to any forum where something wasn't being argued. If you're at an anime forum, they're arguing about anime; if you're at an video game forum, they're arguing about videogames. That's just the nature of forums and those who visits them. It's no surprise that all tabletop RPG...