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Aren't these things just results of bad design rather than failures of a flavour first approach to design? I'm not sure this is a design problem as much as it is a matter of limited applicability of material. Going for a prestige class that specialises in hunting a particular type of enemy...

All I ever needed to know about Second Wind I learned from rock'n'roll wrestling. The defending champion has been stomped into the ground by his opponent, he seems to be down and out, it's unthinkable that he'd come back after the punishment he's received from the challenger. Then the champ...

I can understand people being offended by the sorcerer using charm in this manner but I think, considered in context of the game, some people are overreacting. This doesn't mean I condone it, but there's a lot we don't know about the situation and people are jumping to conclusions. We have no...

If you haven't found the issues you listed being discussed on these forums you haven't looked very hard. There are many threads here in which people debate the pros and cons of 4E.

I zipped through it pretty quickly (noting the scanned hand drawn maps was a nice touch) until I got to: "Look out, dude! That white ape is totally gonna mess you up!" It did.

When you're calling her on it in front of the group it's not surprising she would be defensive, her only alternative may be to say "Yes, I'm cheating, it was a 7" (assuming she is cheating). My prediction is that if people start to call her dice before she can fudge them she'll just retreat and...

Absolutely. Some of my favourites are from the 1E MM. It's very hard to beat, and nothing yet has managed to, the picture of the Bulette humping a tree. Gaming in high school one of the guys in our group did a version of that picture with the bulette up against a giant's leg and I don't think I...

I'll keep my comments away from the rules and on the topic of the book itself. I don't own a PHB but I did get some quality time with one and I had some similar observations. 2) I was taking a look at the classes chapter and planning to skim through and compare the basics of each class. I...

My group feel that 4E is a good system but not what we're looking for from an RPG. I'm not interested in running a campaign with 4E but I will look for a group to join to try some 4E as a player. My group will probably end up going with 1E or OD&D as we had been leaning in that direction...

"I don't have the 4E books, but we have started a campaign or played a one-shot/test session." While my group has enjoyed the sessions of KotS I've been running them through we decided the game isn't what we're looking for in an RPG. The main issue that led to that decision was the focus on...

My answer to that is: a little from column A and a little from column B. The players of characters in a party lacking certain skills will usually do what they can to avoid situations they're not well equipped to deal with, or at the least they'll attempt to develop methods to cope with tackling...

To be honest I'd rather see new settings. I think it would have been so much more exciting to see a new setting designed for 4E as the first campaign sourcebook for the 4E era.

Hear, hear!

To Celtavian, I can relate to a lot of your issues with 4E. Speaking for myself most of the problems I had with 4E were grounded in my expectations, and my expectations were grounded in this game being branded 4E D&D. I've tried to disassociate 4E from D&D and free myself from the expectations...

My current 3E Forgotten Realms group doesn't have a skill monkey and it's not a problem. It reminds me a little of OD&D in that the traps I do put in the game are ones that the players figure out how to dismantle rather than simply leaving it to the rogue to roll the dice. I've grown to prefer it.

"They're all chickens. The rooster has sex with all of them." *ahem* Excuse me. In other words, all of the above.

I was not happy about 4E when it was announced or for some months afterwards, yet I felt that Morrus and the rest of the staff at ENWorld did their best to steer this site and the community that frequents it through troubled waters without alienating one side or the other. It was not an enviable...

What you're going through can probably be described by dredging up an old saying: don't cut off your nose to spite your face. Everyone you'll extol the virtues of 4E to will be dust in a hundred years. It's not worth your time. What is worth your time is enjoying what you can in the game you're...

From a literal reading it's not clear if the charger can voluntarily stop his charge and fight the counter-charger. As the counter-charger would be required to move directly to the nearest square from which she could attack the charger we can probably reverse that and say that the charger is as...

I guess it depends whether you're operating with the assumption that people are fallible or infallible in their decisions. If she decided to be a wizard and it turned out that wizarding made her happy and she couldn't imagine doing anything else then it may never occur to her to do anything...