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I know SR4 is a strong counter-example, and the previous versions are weak counterexamples; and I'm reaosnably sure GURPS is a weak counterexample. (to the statement that all RPGs suffer rules bloat - SR has generally released sourcebooks rather than rulebooks, and I believe that's the same for...

With the imminent release of 4E, and my desire to run Eberron; I've been giving some thought as to what an Artificer might look like in 4E. I'm figuring arcane leader. Underneath that; the Warlock seems to be primarily focused on moving the party, and the cleric focused on buffing the party's...

And that's as good a reason as any for me to start up a campaign...

Don't these skills key off of stats that the elves/half-elves get a bonus in? If so, that's why they hand them out to others, but not themselves - they already have it in their stats.

IMHO, from both sides of the GM screen, "Mastery" experiences SUCK when they're based on mechanics. In far too many cases, this ends up substituting the player's experience for the PCs knowledge. It always seemed to me to be a "gotcha" moment. I had a player who may quite literally never play...

No I've been a big booster of 4E around here, but I can certainly agree with this - it is a ifferent system, not just a better system. Given my druthers, I'd play 3.5 again. What I won't do is run it - I found that to be too much tedious work.

By an odd coincidence, my favorite flavor of ice cream involves peanut butter... Me, I'm going for the analogy of the D&D gendandkenspace being a stew - it has chunks and it has liquid, veggies and meat, and what you get out of it depends very much on what you're using to eat it with. Me, I...

But 3E wasn't a system where the vast majority of the world lived by the rule system either. I suppose it tried; but IMHO it failed at that. Lets recall the errata that stated that the animals with a BAB of 0 and the Weapon Finesse feat for their attacks had Weapon Finesse as a Bonus Feat (and...

Gah - I hate setup (and to a lesser extent worldbuilding). I'd rather buy a world and make it my own than start from scratch. And I don't have time to make sure that each of my challenges for the PCs are correctly crafted if I have to depart from the presupplied challenges. Give me the math...

OK - I've been exposed to forge terminology through this and a couple of other threads, not through the Forge itself; so I'm not necessarily using the terminology in a technical sense. What I want out of a game (and a game system) is that after the session is over, when the players are BSing...

This might be a bit too much Godwin's Law for some; but I could make the argument here that in Nazi Germany, Hilter could be filed as Chaotic Evil, served by mainly Evil (and some Chaotic Evil) lieutenants; but that the majority of Germans were unaligned, with some of military leaders (Rommel...

Whereas I see Action Points as a means to facilitate emergent narrative, in the way that 4E handles them, anyway. Action points, from what I've seen of the rules, and the demo I got to play in last month, are a way for the player to have some input into that emergent narrative at the same level...

Quite well illustrated in any of the Indy movies, actually. Indy generally drops the minions in one hit (in at least 1 instance I can think of, he gets 3(!) minions with one attack - Last Crusade, the 3 guys lining up to have a go at him on the tank, whom he drops with one shot from a Luger...

Remember, in 4Ed, a charge only allows you to move up to your Move - so this isn't as big a change as you might think. It went from a full-round action that let you move up to 2x your move, to a standard action that lets you move up to your Move value. It's better, but you may still need to use...

(pointlessly) subscribing to this thread, as I lost my alerts as well. Wonder if the weight of people subscribed to the 4ed forum killed it ;)

Eberron has a setting-assumption that there are magic shops. But the setting was designed from the ground up as conforming to 3.5 tropes...

Fine by me - I was arguing for the abstract view of HP, which is essentially "whatever is appropriate". There are some corner cases in the rules as they stand if you assume abstract HP(CDG against a Held person with a decent Fort save in one of them; merely sleeping I can rationalize away on...

eno problem with HP being primarly a measure of fatigue and the will to fight; especially at the higher levels. Otherwise the HP scaling effect MAKES NO SENSE. Or do you have a problem with a dagger wielded by a peasant in the surprise round being absolutely no danger to a flatfooted fighter...

My completely off-the-wall guess; the SRD will get hashed out internally at WotC when the ruleset "goes gold" and not before - IE, when it's sent to the printers. WotC should have a pretty good idea of what they want to do with the SRD by that point, so they could just polish it and go. Unless...

You may be dropped for some games for having a high ping time - as latency on the connection will be higher than on a cable/DSL connection - but not a lot higher