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Finally, the WoW players in the group will shut up about wanting to play night elves!

I think it's potentially interesting, the name Ardent. It could be an in game thing, like that's what people call them. Something like, "those guys training sure are ardent." And despite being incorrect, it just stuck. Like, uh, in Batman Begins(the movie) where people start calling him "the Bat...

Looks like he was actually trying to quote Tav Behemoth. And I agree with him. I'm a little confused as to why Behemoth is describing a thrilling adventure narrative and assuming that couldn't happen in 4E. Pretty much every part of that narrative can certainly happen in 4E. Running from a...

Yeah, I enjoyed it too. I think most important in dispelling evil is cool is realizing evil isn't "do whatever you want, whenever you want," it's "do evil whenever you can." Let's say I do whatever I want, whenever I want. (Maybe that's true, I'm not sure.) But if whatever I want to do is...

I also enjoy bards. On another note, I feel like these feats are very obviously bad. I mean, I think I still wouldn't have taken them if they were just extra powers I didn't have to swap out anything for. If they were encounter powers and I didn't have to swap out anything, then I would think...

It's slightly tangential, but adding an overarching skill challenge type thing with a time limit makes for very awesome combats. Paragon tier, the players are piloting a Spelljammer in the astral sea, they basically grappling hooked by githyanki pirates. The "grappling hooks" are magical...

Actually, I assumed you were the one who thinks instincts are good or evil, I think they are neutral. You seem to think self-preservation should be evil, but it's not. I'm not sure where you're getting any other idea. It's instinct to protect oneself. It's not instinct to murder. Where is the...

Ye- wait, what? How is a seeker a defender?

It's neutral to defend your own life, good to risk your own life for others, evil to risk others lives for yourself. It's evil to be angry (with the amount/intensity of anger directly corresponding with evil) and it's good to be forgiving (with the amount/intensity of forgiveness directly...

Who said self-preservation is evil? Self-absorption is not the same thing.

I think it's very interesting, that 4E is meant to have less combats, but have each combat last longer. I think it's definitely a bane to a dungeon crawl style of game. Speaking of which, does anyone have any suggestions for a game system that supports a dungeon crawl well? It would need to be...

(EDIT: fuzzlewump casts Thread Necromancy! Spell fizzles. Spell fizzles. Spell fizzles. Success!: http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/268755-d-d-4th-edition-ashen-crown-dungeon-crawls-2.html#post5108435.) I was looking around for a decent review to the Eberron 4e product...

Normal behavior does not necessarily mean good behavior. Normal really has no bearing on good or evil. Yeah, pretty much. I can see how anyone would be uncomfortable admitting their own evils. I imagine myself as being neutral, really. I'm in college right now because I want money and a job...

Alright, but I was quoting someone else who was discussing thoughts vs. actions. I don't see what moral equivalency has to do with anything. Feeling very strong hatred could indeed be as evil as deciding to take an evil action. But I never said they were. I said intention to kill is probably...

Maybe, depends on the motivation for restraint. If the restraint is because "it's wrong" then I would guess you'd end up at a neutral alignment, given that you'd be kind of half-evil half-good. I imagine that's where most people in the world are: sometimes thinking evil thoughts, but showing...

Sure, but desire to kill your family and intention to kill your family are both evil, though perhaps intention is further down the scale toward evil. But being discussed wasn't desire vs. intention, it was thought vs. action. Desire, emotion, and intention both live in the brain as thought, so...

You don't think it's evil, or it's definitively not evil? What if the driller was eventually consumed by the drilling fantasy, bought a cordless drill, and went over to his neighbor's house with the intention of drilling out his eyes. So, it's still in his head, still a thought. While walking...

So you agree that they aren't "too stupid" to grasp the concept of 9 alignments since they used it and didn't change it for 3E. Sounds good. Cool, but work on not stating your opinions as facts. Good gaming, sir.

What? WotC wrote third edition, by the way, which had chaotic good in it. If you mean you don't like that that alignment choice was taken out, I think "Good" was meant to encompass both "Chaotic Good" and "Neutral Good." Maybe there is a huge distinction between the two, but I'm not seeing it...

If my players wanted to essentially dedicate two feats to minion clearing, which certainly wouldn't be in a 5x5 grid by the way, then sure, why not?