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Exactly. He introduced himself, remember? Gnome: "I'm a monster, Rawr."

The only house rules that I can see implementing are: 1) Smaller dragons. They may be very, very young, but I like the idea of a tiny dragon fighting lower level PCs. 2) Some system for "secondary skills" that give the PCs the potential to have ordinary jobs outside of adventuring. It may be...

No, all bursts have range, and, essentially though not exactly, a close burst has zero range. A blast is a burst that must have an edge adjacent to the caster.

I bet. Do you have any thoughts yet on the conversion for Rahasia? Every time I read "Temple of Elemental Evil", I want to scrap the campaign I'm thinking about and just run that. Sigh. Maybe I'll hold out until there are rules for half-orc monks and for druids, so my Hommlet can be complete.

Well, I did give two examples, which you obviously identified. I'll go into more details on those below. I will add that I don't find taking the best elements of game design from MMOGs to be "aping" those games. One of Bradford's examples is the identification of specific roles for character...

I want my first character to be a gnome, a warforged, or, my guilty pleasure, a minotaur. I vote gnome for Meepo. Four more editions! Four more editions!

While Bradford is correct that RPG products are analogous to capital, I don't find many of his other points compelling. Indeed, he seems to be ignoring the fact that RPGs have a business model: create ongoing rules and setting content that gamers will pay for on a regular or semi-regular basis...

Whew.

I was under the impression that for anything not covered by a skill, feat, or power, one defaulted to ability score vs. appropriate target, including the level bonus. This would make the inclusion of the bonus with the ability scores appropriate, because bare ability score is never used.

I'm converting Scourge of the Howling Horde and Rahasia. Scourge requires a big increase in the number of creatures and a change to the maps as well, since the terrain is not quite dynamic enough and is a little too restrictive. I'm throwing in some extra staircases and ramps, widening the...

I just hope that everyone here remembers that the next time they read a news story.

2nd Edition made elves worse! The elven cavalier was one of the craziest classes out there.

Stupid. However, that's how people see us.

Not so fast. we already know that there is a martial power book coming out this year. I have a feeling that the PHB II (and so on) will be more like... the PHB II.

Gun-fu and Ang Lee? I'm sure you meant John Woo. We'll forgive you, this time.

In prose or poem, it matters not to Lizard, he's making things up.

Dana Carvey ?

Lightning above hills, rains down on this thread, as well. Topic is now lost.

Sure, which is why D&D moved away from the 1st edition rules to a system that attempted to model more and more specifics (with the 2nd Ed Option books as the ultimate expression of this). Now 4E has moved to a more story-based combat, where the action choice matters to the story and the game...

Baby Jesus cries, because the length of your sig is triple your post.