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Stop the lying. That is not I you said and you know it. What is the game you want to play if it does not involve solving some amorphous problem that will involve figuring things out, going places, killing monsters, and/or taking their stuff. What part of political intrigue requires that you...

By the same token, since we are assuming that there is a length that the book "must be". What would you remove to add craft/profession? People want to cut useless stuff because it clutters the system, it creates externalities with regards to choice and dilutes the value of roleplaying by giving...

Not a spoof, but I am glad you have no argument with which to refute mine. No, they really do never come up. They only come up when the DM specifically inputs said [usually ridiculous] situation into the game where it is unnecessary. DnD is a game of solving problems. These problems involve...

quoted for posterity. Look there is a fundamental disconnect here. You and KB simply cannot understand, for some unknown reason, that the rules you want are useless. They don't need to be defined because they don't come up, they're too specialized to be valuable and comparable to another skill...

1. I was not aware that "I was a blacksmith" is an "extensive character background" 2. Which is why you justify having a background to be a mechanical disadvantage? There is no way, outside of "background points" to balance this and they do not revolve around skills. Your examples are...

You, and everyone else, still hasn't answered why you cannot just put these into your background, especially when they come up so infrequently.

Its the same conundrum with Warlocks. But I am guessing that they intended it to go the opposite way that it goes with warlocks. Barbarians are all about burst damage. Hunters quarry does about +3d6/4rounds at the first level[75% hit rate]. But barbarians as we see here, get a free charge...

No one actually used these skills. By codifying those profession and craft skills as "background" anyone whose background wasn't explicitly "i have pursued my classes career my entire life" was gimped compared to anyone else. Such, craft and such skills were removed, they were and are...

Insight is your best bet. Make sure you take skill focus. Your other bet is "Telepathy ruins the game, it was removed because it ruins the game. If you want to play a telepath, don't." There is no room for adding these "middle-man" powers because the game is based on a very tight balance...

No, as you wrote in the OP " Right now on the other hand, I feel that 4e's designers have sacrificed non-combat mechanics in the wish of perfecting the combat-mechanics. Nothing wrong about that, the combat system is one of the better I've seen in any game designed to be played by humans and...

But you are, you claim that skills and rituals do not count as non combat crunch. Why do they not count as non-combat crunch, they are the way that you are to handle non-combat encounters. All of these things you list are simply ways of describing skill training and skill focus. You want to be...

I do this when making maps for use in Maptools, a fantastic computer based RPG game table. So long as you know how many pixels in an inch you are going to be printing at. Then just google "the gimp" and download that, then use this handy conversion spreadsheet. RPTools.net Forums :: View topic...

So let me get this straight You start by throwing out all of the non-combat crunch that 4e has out of hand, rejecting it implicitly. Then you say that 4e doesn't have enough non-combat crunch for you. Something is going on beyond your stated wishes. DnD 4e has more non-combat crunch than any...

There is a monster you can re-tool from Siege of Bordins Watch which might be handy. Look at Encounter V-5 Its a large creature which has a lot of grab attacks. So long as you can justify making your wererat friend being large sized it works just fine. Also note, that with 3 strikers and no...

From level 2-3 you will gain one level 6 item From level 3-4 you will gain one level 6, and one level 7 item From level 4-5 you will gain one level 6, and one level 7, and one level 8 item. A level 6 weapon can be +2 with no property, or +2 with a non-critical property. A level 7 and 8 weapon...

No. Power Creep is absolutely inevitable. I don't want to go into great depth here, but the basics of this. Any two systems which, internally are the same power, when combined will necessarily be of higher power due to efficiency gains in increased choice. Now, there are some downsides to...

Power creep, simply because of the efficiency gains made when playing that occur with increased options is inevitable. It is also bad. It increases the work that the DM has to do to run a successful game. Pretty much anything that does that, if it does not have a significant advantage is about...

Then you haven't read the thread. Hypersmurf, i will respond to you as soon as you start taking this discussion seriously and stop pretending to be a child.

So, lets get this straight. 1. DnD 4e shares a design choice with some JRPGs 2. Some JRPGs have plot holes 3. Therefore DnD 4e supports plot holes Man what? This is lunacy, every single one of the points is unrelated. Whether or not plots co-inside with the mechanics of the system has nothing...

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