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I'm confused by this example, and wonder if I'm misunderstanding you or not. Are you suggesting that your player wants to use the Song of Discord (during his turn), but not bother rolling to hit, to just use the effect line to have an enemy hit someone as a free action? If that intepretation...

Tray to talk it out and be reasonable. Don't end up like these guys. Man bound over for trial in hammer attacks Courts » Motive may have stemmed from 'Dungeons and Dragons' game and jealousy.

Is it any more powerful than the Changeling at-will? Now imagine, Changeling Druid... master of disguise!

Why is there so much hostility and negativity here? I am also baffled by the rampant speculation that this is somehow just a cover for their system failing, despite that some of us were expecting it (and had seen previous announcements to the fact). The degree to which the D&D community...

What wasn't reported was that the real reason they fought wasn't because of the girl. One of them wanted to play 4E, and the other wanted to play Pathfinder.

I <3 Felicia Day. That is all.

And on the main topic... I don't understand why female gamers are such a big topic of conversation. People talk about them like they are mythical, rare, and/or volatile. You may find this hard to believe... but females are people too. Some like to game, some don't. I haven't played in a...

That's not something unique to gaming, that's just a weird situation. If his wife wouldn't trust him to be around a couple, then that's a bit unreasonable... It wasn't the presence of a woman that caused the problem, it was the indirect effect that a woman who wasn't even playing had on the...

That has nothing to do with girls and gaming... It's two guys both interested in one girl. It might surprise you to discover that outside of gaming, sometimes interactions between 2 guys both being interested in 1 girl can lead to tension, betrayal, hurt feelings and lots of other...

You'd think that people would be used to the unfounded criticisms often lobbed at 4E and WotC by now. I haven't found the pace of books to be any different than it has been before 4E, however I've been happier with the products. During 3.0, I bought maybe 3 books. During 3.5, I got around 3...

A DM isn't always right, but they still make the call. However, if a DM makes arbitrary and bad calls, it can certainly cause friction. I've had DMs make really arbitrary rulings that not only went obviously against the spirit of the rules, but even specific examples cited in rules for really...

Others: The classic classes of Fighter, Wizard, Thief, Cleric (and maybe the extended family of Paladin, Ranger, Druid, Bard). A DM. Magic Missile. Looting bodies. Dragons. Dungeons. Spells. Secret passages. Monsters. Treasure. Traps. Traps disguised as treasure. Critical Hits...

I'm a little confused by this post, since on one hand it sounds like you are mocking that design decision (with the "lol), and on the other hand lament not being able to have a discussion without people defending their preferences. Should we take this to mean that we shouldn't be on the...

I fully expected Shadow to be in the PHB3 as well, and am a little surprised that it's not looking like it will be. I personally feel that one of the following will be true: 1) There are no immediate plans for a Necromancer, and at best you might find Shadow as a power source in a PHB4. 2)...

Changing encounters to dailies will have the result of players wanting to reinvent the 5-minute work day, the phenomon to which encounter powers were designed remove. I'm assuming that you would not want or allow this, since it does the exact oppossite of what you are trying to do (i.e., more...

Oh, I saw earlier comments and debates about whether it was similar or not, or whether it was the equal or not. I am just commenting that not only is it similar, even the exact same 3 steps described in order to create and spend the budget are nearly identical, with the exception of the order...

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There was a version of D&D that was just as fun and playable with 1 or 2 characters as 4 or 5? I mean, if it's a specific weakness of 4E, then there must be a version where it was stronger, right? Which one was that?

From what little I know of Pathfinder, it sounds like they've attempted to improve a lot of the same mechanics from 3.0/3.5 that 4E did. So, I'm curious how some of each of their proposed solutions compare and contrast to one another. For those of you who prefer Pathfinder, what solution do...

This is remarkably similar to the 4E approach. See DMG P. 56. I mean, aside from some of the exact numbers, the main departure is that the 4E order would effectively be this system's Step 2, then Step 1, then Step 3. Even the XP multipliers are effectively the same (very close ratios, except...