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Yes, you are. One, you're assumng that love=mastery, and that's simply not true- for instance, many of the people I know who despise 3e certainly have a better grasp of it's mechanics than the people who defend it. The spellcaster debates in various places are a clear example of that...

Certainly help might be rare, but it's not really fair to assume that everyone views these systems like you. You might feel that the systems 'appeal differently to different people', but there are plenty of people I know who got the same thing from playing each game, even if they feel one...

It's not jsut a psychologicla barrier, it's a logistical cost. The actual cost of muddling out all that stuff is clearly non-trivial. I mean i put a lot of effort into the two games i run, but i still look at rituals and even treasure and go "ughhhhh". I eyeball XP as well. But that happens...

I always thought a good angle for strongholds would be to give them a character sheet like a pc. It might be a bit complex, but then again depending on what you wanted to do with it, it might just take a re-skinned 4e PC, or something comparable. If you're talking literally about a stronghold...

I think part of the problem is that even more than items, rituals come with a lot of niggly book-keeping, and it between the two it can be very easy to just forget about rituals and save up for an item instead. 4e is very good at cutting down on this kind of thing, and for many people rituals...

Certainly knights and slayers pale compared to earlier versions of the fighter, there's no comparison. But that's more an issue of how much the designers overcompensated, and the loss of powers, and not what i'm talking about here. It isn't a matter of wether or not a class has essentials...

Again, as I said, there are already striker paladins, and controller clerics- and controller paladins, too. This is not about restricting clases by roles. But those classes are very distinct from the ways for instance, invokers and particularly avengers function, and anybody who can't see the...

Oh yeah, I vaguely remember that one! Didn't it have a seawolf aquatic lycanthope involved? I might be getting two modules mised up. Either way there's a lot of cool plots that can come out of stuff like this. When it comes to wierd setting concepts and 'rules' about monsters and magic, I...

Folding avengers into paladins and invokers into clerics would render classes menaingless. Each class has Role mechanics that give it a unique subrole on the battlefield. Contrary to essentials design logic, it's not just wizards that get to do cool stuff, and avengers and invokers do cool...

I feel like a setting primer should have more hooks. What is valuable in this world? What are the pcs likely to be after? Honor? Glory? Gold? Political power? Are there things a dragonborn would never value, that adventurers usually would? Or vice versa? What about law and order? Are certain...

That PC is awesome and slapping them will only get you swarmed by their wolfist-populist enforcers. Anyway, if things got desperate enough- massive plot-device undead or demonic invasion for instance- I can think of far worse things to do than infect everyone with lycanthropy and manipulate...

If you're looking for a focused setting, you might take a look at Greg Stolze's Progenitor, which has a versatile set of supers, but a very solid and interesting origin concept for them all. Put simply, super powers are contagious. It has a really cool timeline, based on the actions of the first...

Ok, so the key here is to remember that these are werewolves, and werewolves are as tough as nails. Have them escape in a badass and bloody fashion, and it makes the players feel cool, but also impresses upon them that these are some tough creatures. Working on the lumber mill idea, imagine if...

I disagree with this, stuff like this sounds great in theory but waving fiat in the player's faces is a bad idea. You want them hating the villains, not you, and players can and will blame you in such a scenario, and with good cause. Your villains won't look badass at all if the players can...

This is pretyt advanced, but one idea would be to put a 'learning curve' in the three fights, using a terrain feature that is similar in each one, but gets more challenging over time. The idea would be to encourage people to learn to master the terrain feature in the first two fights, in...

One of the great things about 4e is that it's combat can be rekinned. It's actually quite viable to reskin monters, as entire military units. In such a battle, each batalion would be a monster or a hero, with a pc controlling an enture batallion of troops, like a colum of knights, or a bunch of...

Again, the dawn war literally pits adventuring parties of deities against single primordials on many occasions. In rare cases, super-badass gods like bane and io take on a primordial alone, but most of the time, they're actually cooperating in groups to defeat them. The fact that since then...

You should maybe loosen that schedual a bit I mean, what happens if the players really get into it? You might want to incorperate a bit more stuff and thrusting them into a new advanture could really sideline that heavily. Also I think it's important that the pcs not simply be barraged with...

I'm not exactly sure how you missed this, but the primordials are based on mythology's old gods (titans, giants, ect), and serve exactly that role in 4e's planar mythos. Giants, Titans, and Primordials collectivly form that threat, very clearly, and are specifically laid out as such. Far from...

It's not constructive at all to post about something like that on the Wotc forums, and i'm saying this as somebody who usually doesn't give a rat's ass about bans and probations. Lokiare, if you like CBloader and want people to have that option, then waving a red flag over it on the official...