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They should be asking Microsoft for advice. Or, it appears they already did. I don't anticipate a change any different to that of Win2k Desktop to WinXP. Its better at somethings, others think the original works just fine, and won't replace. At the end of the day, though, the original...

I hope it failed. Major diminishing returns there.

Ahh.. thank you. See, this is what should have happened in that other thread (The one regarding the sentry in the tower.) No combat resolution system was necessary, because combat never occured. Combat might have occured should the skill-based roll (Which abstracts the stealth required, the...

Which is why anybody treating HP as meat-points is doomed. On the other hand, my combat descriptions involve a lot description (And always have) of how you just avoid being nailed by that tree-sized club. Or of how you got swotted, but your armour holds out, or wall of force, etc. Getting a...

I'm sorry.. What on makes you think 4e is taking *any* steps back ffrom that? The 4e default setting is no more required than the 3.x default setting of Greyhawk/FR Its got bugger all to do with the use of the ruleset as a toolkit. IMO, falling back on the 'implied setting' as an excuse is a...

... Judgement calls are based on the instruction set of the processor. >.> We're all just code. Some of it is just really, really scary. You're abstraction a layer further away than the ruleset or the programming language, there.

What a load of tosh. I've been gaming for 20 years. I don't think its an unintuitive mechanic at all. I think its the only feasible method to explain the abstraction of hit points in every core version of DND. I think Lycon hit the nail on the head. DND is a game were any actually serious wound...

Real tools are a bad analogy. Better analogies are programming languages, because that is what a gaming ruleset *is* Do you want a tool that you can build other tools with? Or do you want a toolset that is complex, internally interlinked, and very difficult to modify, but covers 98% of the...

What ainatan said. The best tools are those that allow you to make your own tools to fit the needs you have. 4e has suggestively indicated the prescence of such tools.

Well, no, its not something else. But that gets bogged down in an intelligence discussion.

It has everything to do with planning and forethought, though.

Which fundamentally disagrees with my notions of good. Doing that, you're chaotic neutral. Maybe chaotic stupid, as well, given the engines of tyranny will blame the masses. *shrug* I have immense problems with DND's objective ideas of a good-evil axis. On top of that, what level of foresight...

I don't follow. Its lousy, but its true? You could, probably, build a world were torches didn't work under the same principles. It would take a *lot* of work for me to be happy with it, mind you. But it would be do-able. And yes, those differences come across in Narrative, in whatever form it...

If its divine, they close up. If its martial, or a second wind, nothing. You soldier on. Later, over night, at camp, you bandage and cleanse. Also, being an engineer student has nothing to do with, sorry. I have a doctorate of chemistry, a civil engineer, a material scientist, a programmer and...

I'm inclined to agree that the harpooning wording could have been done better. /shrug. I find it horrendous that mass-marketted paperbacks still have editorial mistakes, too.

Tell that to somebody who loses an aorta, instead of just some of the muscle. While it's not *impossible* the lack of blood flow to the muscles will shutdown the injured party within a minute or two, tops. Probably less, if they have already been exerting themselves.

To the OP; A damn good idea. A threat, perfectly capable of dealing damage, but not capable of taking it. I like them. /shrug. I don't find any major inconsistencies in them and in those encounters I have already built, they make up the vast majority of the mobs. Especially ranged minions. :D

Heh. Do we have all NPC/PC's with such a strong adrenaline (or other chemical substance.. Barbarians are all on PCP!) hence immune to shock? Unless a wound damages the heart or the brain, or the circulatory system between them, only shock causes the shutdown of systems. Removal of shock, for...

Its been said already. HP =/ meatpoints. It honestly never has. It can be argued that previously, MORE of the HP abstraction was allocated to meat-points than is currently the case, which is, IMO, true. However, I have no particular issues with the way things are handled, once you accept...

Yes.. and under the terms that it is true in DND, those diamonds will be available anywere the population can support a max price of 5000g.