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...wait, we ever trusted game designers, using trust in the sense that we believe them when they say their rules are good as written? Nonsense. There are names (Monte Cook, Mike Mearls, Peter Schaefer, Rebecca Borgstrom, Michael Goodwin, Ari Marmell, probably a few others) which make me...

Pathfinder's a bit of a weird case for some of us, too. Because as much as I don't really care for 4e, I haven't even read Pathfinder except for a quick glance-over of the first alpha, because I just don't care about it. I mean, insofar as it may keep my favorite edition "in print" that's nice...

Crystalkeep hasn't gotten a nastygram from WotC yet. Also, lv1-3 content from the corebooks (which I believe summarizes everything in the starter set) is available even to unregistered users of the Compendium, so it's essentially free (as in beer, not as in freedom) content already. But given...

I find it's about the same with the good 3rd-party companies, but I also find it pretty easy to see stuff that radiates an aura of Strong Brokenation or Questionable Design a mile away, so eliminating a few pieces of broken junk from a book doesn't bother me. What does surprise me is how...

Looking at them funny. "You're really never going to play 4e again? Even if someone runs an awesome-sounding game of it? ... 'kay." Then if they respond in the affirmative, continuing to look at them funny. I've almost never quit a game system. I've quit games, and for a while I quit...

Those kind of spells already exist in 4e. (c.f. Warlock's Hurl Through Hell.) I just don't think they're as cool as they used to be, especially Hurl Through Hell, which you get at a level where you may well be going to Hell personally to punch people out.

At least for me, it removes the utility of "Go to Hell"-type spells, something D&D sadly did to Hell itself years ago, but now finally expanded to every plane. I mean, here's the thing: if you're throwing someone at random into the Elemental Plane of Fire, or the Negative Energy Plane, or the...

You missed me pointing out the utility of the Elemental Plane of Fire as an ocean of fire that you do not want to go to, but instead want people who you do not like to go to. So Hell, basically, only Hell in D&D's been an adventure area for a long time. Most of the locals in the planes are...

It does. If you were personally experiencing a problem with it, it's likely that these kind of feats would provoke the same players into doing the same things that resulted in it being a problem in 3.5e. Which would be bad for you. Meanwhile, I probably wouldn't let someone use those feats just...

If you're adventuring there, you're in the City of Brass, which is populated by efreeti who cast spells and wield swords, and also cool enough that it's tolerable for non-fire-immune PCs. If you go there because someone told you to go to Hell now, you are in an ocean of fire and it sucks to be you.

A significant portion of the playerbase had no concept of the "15 minute workday" as a problem until it was harped on extensively as a failing of 3e. While to some extent it's accurate - theoretically, resting after every encounter, if possible, is a good strategy - it's kind of questionable to...

I always liked the Elemental Plane of Fire. I mean, so there have routinely been spells and effects in D&D that send your foeman to Hell, which is ostensibly a bad thing, but well... Hell's well-established as a place you can go to and dungeon hack through, so spells like Hurl Through Hell that...

At least in the d20 Black Company Campaign Setting, Domi goes around armored in just his skin. Which is vaguely hilarious, because that gives him something like 800 HP (he's level 75, after all) and 16 AC.

I'm not sure Morrus is so much disparaging your stance on the issue as pointing out that you tend to say things that, well... sound darn funny. I mean, "This is the most realistic solution, and lets you ignore realism to boot!" is... a pretty silly line, even if it wasn't so bad taken in...

Man, if anything I'd want to import a different treasure system into 4e. Getting and sorting through heaps of loot after taking out monsters was always one of the things I liked about previous editions of D&D. And heck, CRPGs that feature it, too.

Hey, I resent that. I thought the Draconomicon preview with the purple dragon was awesome, and said so! I mean I also used the post to slag off the brown dragon's new Gourmet Chef Dragon flavor, but I'm occasionally happy about stuff! ;) If I wanted to, I could easily get the E-Dragon and...

Hey, it's your game that's gonna run into problems when you go to look up something and WotC's site is down, not mine. :P

Dragon Magazine for $6/month is really, really borderline on the worthiness. I mean, you also get access to the Compendium (unfortunately with the "when WotC's site is working" caveat, making this not the best resource for actual games in play - as sadly d20srd.org has far better uptime) and...

To you, sure.

I think the majority of the dislike of eladrin stems from their have a racial ability to teleport. I mean, okay, high elves, those are pretty common. Teleporting high elves? That would only bear out if we weren't getting Half-Orcs in PHB2 in time for Eberron and Orcs approximately never. (Or...