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Uh, nope, that is what I call "suck". Sorry! EDIT: To expand on things, I sometimes play CRPGs where there's essentially no character customization at all, and I sometimes play CRPGs where there's a lot of character customization. Generally, while I enjoy them both, I nearly always find myself...

I'm personally quite prepared to house-rule immunities back in if things end up stupid: it's important for Rogues to not feel entirely shut down by widespread immunities to sneak attacks, but gelatinous cubes can't be sneak-attacked, skeletons can't be poisoned, and golems need not fear...

Hmm. For the virtual tabletop, I'm wondering what's going to be there in terms of things that... aren't dungeons. Will there be support for towns and outdoors?

Well, Torturous Strike sucks like a very sucky thing once you get to level 21, so we're likely going to see some power replacement going on.

I think the part where 2e sucks - and feel the part where I'm disliking 4e - is in its core philosophy. I don't question the idea that neat and awesome concepts will always come out over time, and D&D's history bears this out, but... ...I disagree, because I found the core bits of 2e - what...

...Er, um, whoops. That's what I get for staying up all night. Back on topic, tieflings are almost enough for me to not want to even pick up 4e books, because their art direction bothers me in almost every way a character race's art could - the red skin, huge horns, and tail are all bad enough...

Then you must have just utterly failed to note that I dismissed the necessity of random HP in 3e and assumedly 4e, at least for myself. Some players may still find it necessary because they are even more uncomfortable with clone characters than I am, but the only good reason I can see for using...

My major concerns are 2 and 5. For 5), if the GSL has all of the worst parts of the OGL (i.e. no one being allowed to support WotC products past the core books + psionics) and all of the worst parts of not being truly open, well, uh. Suck, and suck hard? For 2), my experience is that I am...

Did you even read my post? Seriously?

I disagree; randomness in character creation can have its place, because it makes it unlikely that any two given characters will be mechanically identical. This is important to some players, and a much bigger deal in some systems than others - in something like Rules Cyclopedia D&D, point-buy...

It is not likely that Healing Surges have replaced all healing, unless things have changed since November 28: What they are, of course, is not something I have any idea about.

I have a big dragon-fan in my online gaming group. Having just asked her a moment ago, she's apparently pretty happy with Dragonborn being a core race in 4e. The reason I had to ask her, of course, is that one of her previous characters was a gnome Dragon Shaman... That said, Dragon Disciple is...

Er, well, Neverwinter Nights 1 has random hit points (though you have the option of just taking maximum instead - yes, it does seriously work like that) and the absolute mathematical worst you can be down is 185 hit points if you somehow get the minimum possible hit points at every level and...

Well, this works as long as you can choose when to end it. If all of us use encounter-duration buffs, kick down the door, and find two goblins and a hostile flying goldfish behind it, I would be dissatisfied if I couldn't kick down the next door and fight another battle while my buffs remained...

Negative modifiers are still in, you're just adding 1/2 level to almost everything. So a Strength of 3 is still a -4 modifier... unless you're level 30, then it's +11.

They were a set of skills and powers in 3e. They appear to be much, much more restrictive now.

You left out Drawmij -> Jim Ward.

We've been told that the Character Creator will mark characters as RPGA valid or not, and if not, how they are in noncompliance. As such, there's going to be some sort of data validation.

Squares are always 5 feet by 5 feet. A diagonal step from the center of one square to another is clearly 5 * sqrt(2) = 7.0710678... feet. If diagonals = 1 step, then you can still maintain constant distance by stating that speed isn't constant. Which is silly, but with a few much smaller...

No and yes, but the former no carries a caveat that only a goon would have described it as a "5x5 room" in 3.5 because of how movement worked there. It'd be an... 8x8 diamond-shaped room, I guess.