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See, am I supposed to argue with that? Am I supposed to put on a show? We go line by line for a few pages and then hmm, I wonder who'll get banned for edition warring? I have nothing to prove, I stated my opinion, and my entire point is that there isn't a constructive dicsusion going on here...

This is not a constructive thing to do when the argument is about how games should be made. Mike Mearls is over on the wotc website doing his regular colum in which he basically kisses up to grognards, talking up the kind of ideas edition warriors have as if they were legit goals for design...

There are other forums on the web you know. Sometimes they come and say 'hi'.

A thread is defined as an edition war when 4e fans put up too much of a fight.

Touching on what somebody mentioned above, gods are often things players get enthusiastic about- and you don't have to be religious to respond like this. A cleric who has a deity they worship is actually a really good hook for getting a new roleplayer to think about character behavior...

DRAGONS : Dragons are not all that ignorant about the nature of the lesser races. . they just don't take them very seriously. They also don't tend to use idioms since they love the soung of their own voice, but some of them do. "Bargain" The idea of 'bargaining' or striking deals here refers...

ORCS : Orcish sayings are often more subtle and humerous than they appear. "Are we feasting?" When two orcish tribes come together, it's either to feast, or to wage war. Asking this implies a question about the second option. This saying can be used many ways, including in a more subtle way...

I think dave's idea is pretty cool, but if you're looking for a quick option, consider this: They have to bury somebody in the crypt. The last descendant of the family, a rather unpopular local noble, has finally died of old age. He was suspected of many things and everyone knows the rumors...

You don't need to make it D&D style, as in room by room- just have a suspenseful march into the sewers or wherever underground, and then just as they think they're arriving at the destination, the tunnel starts to move upwards instead of downwards, taking them up into the basement of a...

You could just call them witnesses. Often a seemingly mundane term makes the best title, and the notion of bearing witness to religious events is evocative of various judeochristian testaments. Literally when one testifies, one is bearing witness.

Yeah sure, if you had a tractor beam or something, but even getting it out into space would be hard enough and it would just devour anything you attached to it. It could even be on a decaying solar orbit, or was before it stabilised it's own orbit by flinging off bits of itself.

Feral Nanite Dump: Nanites which have gone into 'grey goo' mode, but hurled safely into space, but stll dangerous. Any former sateilte or even ground based structure could carry this contagion. Temporal Warp Processor: A tiny, split second portal to the past, caused perhaps by an accident when...

I can't wait for future colums aimed at de-videogamifying 4e combat, gygaxianising the nentyr vale and, of course, re-irelevantising the fighter.

Setting, or team, or subculture? Imagine a superhero world where at some point (maybe recently), people started gaining powers based on the beliefs, ideologies, and culturual or subcultural concepts they embodied. Supers would then broadly be divided between these different groups, as opposed...

But revelation is oronthon's deal, not theirs. It's not as if they treat the living with very much respect, and they certainly have plenty of undead around. Having self-replicating slaves make sense, hence the living are still needed. Second, a difference in perspective doesn't have to mean...

Who says? That could be exactly the kind of oronthonian nonsense that the cheshenites reject. I'm not evne sure oronthon's guys are into the whole 'give yourself to your god' thing anymore. Certainly the old church seemed to be based on a judeochristian modelto some degree, but the new one...

Are you kidding? They've already converted thousands.

I kind of wonder what the game would look like if 'feats' were stripped down to purely dice and event tricks. What i mean by that would be things like 'reroll a die roll once per encounter' or 'when you rolls a 20 do a free mba'. If feats were only things like that, and things like that were...

*The old golems might have been used to massacre civlians, in one of the neevolent wizard's secret evil actions. Nobody talks about it anymore, and the golems were redesigned to look like statues and be very different looking in general. The old ones sit in a warehouse, their riveted metal skin...

Certainly, if epic and also paragon had mroe to differentiate them, DMs would be more likely to consider starting at that level, if that was what they were after. Having three broad subsets of premise built into a system like this is an excellent way to make the game more versatile and keep...