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:( I have to say, I'm not happy with this path for Pathfinder. Just as 4e starts to win me over, Paizo is knocking the wind out of my sails. 4e is going for revolution in the ruleset, and Paizo is going for evolution... Okay, might work, but... I've looked over the ruleset. It's 3.5+ (3.5...

Curse you, Wizards! You've turned my favorite game into an RTS! It's no longer possible for the DM to win by roleplaying, he has to use tons of low hitpoint minions? OMG Zerg rush! I hear that they're adding tank characters, but Starcraft had tanks like forever. And heroes? Wizards has...

The mechanic is ... interesting. You no longer have to keep track of durations, which is nice... But consider the following... Effect lasts 1 round or more: 100% chance (it always lasts until the end of your turn) Effect lasts 2 rounds or more: 45% chance (55% chance that you make save without...

Wizard changes are pretty darn weak. There just aren't enough spells. I've played a lot of wizards in my time... And here's how I go about doing it... I want to play a wizard. What's my theme? Maybe this wizard is a fire wizard? Maybe earth? Maybe he's an illusionist. With this dearth...

4e's jump rules are so nice and simple, I love them. They make me angry when I think about 3.5e... Summary for those who don't know: The jump DC is 10 * the number of squares to jump. 4 squares of a running start cuts the C in half. I love it. No need to pull out a stupid table every time...

Oh, and the reason 6 hours of rest heals all wounds is that regardless of how many barriers the game system puts into resting, players don't go forward with the adventure until they are at full resources. If it required a week of rest, players would be resting for a week half way through a...

I'm sorry, but I find this to be a terrible argument. The OP suggests that 4e is such a good tactical game that it can't be a good roleplaying game because everything will tend to devolve into tactics. You're basically calling 4e bad because the game designers did a good job with combat...

I'll consider getting it as a DM, but it'll be totally useless for all of my players. I won't be able to game using the gaming table since none of them will be likely to subscribe to this at any price. It's just the way of D&D. DMs shell out the cash for the game, players bring the snacks...

That's 2d6+4. It's a level 1 character.

I don't mind if they're ugly. You know, I can somewhat imagine a fantasy world without makeup, barbershops, and baths every day. But I don't want my Conans looking like ConAnns and vice versa.

Oh wait.... It turns out Mike's alive. Has he gone to the other side? RangerWickett, we're sending you in to take out Mike Shea and return with the D&D one-sheet. If it turns out he's not a traitor to the cause, we can have him resurrected at a future date. And in that case, someone should...

Mike Shea hasn't posted in 40 minutes. We can only assume that he's dead. We'll have to send someone in after him. RangerWickett, you're a ranger. You can track him and bring his corpse back for resurrection. Bonus XP if you can find the D&D one-sheet and bring that back too. Actually...

Okay, here's what I can make out of the one sheet... 7. Attack! Attacks are divided up into five different types. Melee attacks are those you make when you're adjacent to your target. Ranged attacks can be made ??? distance.... 8. Action points give you an extra action 9. Movement is...

Yeah, those are some much better pictures of the character visualizer than had recently popped up on the Internet. Those pictures make me much more hopeful... :)

Well I understand the real world mechanics... Marking is the equivalent of providing suppressive fire. You know, when people in the movies shout, "Cover me!"... The person doing the covering is "marking" target(s). It makes sense to me. As for the "only one mark" thing... well, it's a...

You're right, and I should know better. Post changed to maintain the funny and yet be more correct. As for the purpose, it is not worth your time to seek purpose on the Internet.

Question about D&D Insider's Character creator... Does it allow you to create a character who has not undergone a sex change? http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/02/25/exclusive-gallery-du.html I thought I had seen some earlier pictures that looked a lot better than these... perhaps it was...

You don't actually have to leave your PC on to contribute. These programs run in idle cycles that you would have just thrown away (mostly... there's some context switching but it's pretty much unnoticeable). If you don't normally leave your PC on, I personally wouldn't recommend it...

I used to work for one of the big distributed computing companies. We directly competed with Seti@Home and Folding@Home for computing power. Just wouldn't feel right signing up for it now, but the idea was always a great one. But we did find a new Mersenne prime so that was pretty cool. Nothing...

No. ;)