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The mechanic was never the cards. That was a suggestion. The mechanic is a codified system of providing rewards to dangle in front of the players for accomplishing things they decide to do, rather than a poorly-defined ad-hoc system like the one in 3.x.

I'm hoping to grab Lords of Madness for cheap, but that one's a long shot.

Occam's Razor This? This is awesome. I need one of these. Guaranteed to increase in value!

The D&D that can be named is not the eternal D&D.

A good place to start is the rules in Unearthed Arcana, under Defense Bonus.

This is just another reminded that in 4E classes do not key to archetypes, but instead key to functional roles. You could have two "soldiers," one of which is trained to fight in heavy armour and plod forward like a turtle with a greatsword, and one of which is trained as a harrier that...

I vaguely remember that. I think I fell asleep on my keyboard and accidentally typed out the cipher with my face.

Mutalization is a word?

Seriously. Player 1: "Hey, how about we play Monopoly?" Player 2: "You...monster! You bastard! How could you?! Tonight is scrabble night! Does that mean nothing to you?! What about my feelings? You're out of the will, buster!" Player 1: "You can be the scotty dog."

Q: How do you really confuse him? A: Tell him that the 4E player found the corner. Edit: Q: How do you confuse a 4E player? A: Tell him that if the 3E player could find the corner, he could avoid the fireballcube.

The same thing you do if you want a psionic striker: wait for it to appear in a future supplement.

It does, however, look like exactly the sort of thing that could go into a 4E Unearthed Arcana.

Not everything moves in straight lines. Measuring the threatened area of each creature in a combat so you know where you can move to is a pain in the butt. Sometimes it's easier to count squares than it is to circumscribe a 20' radius, deciding whether this or that character is in or out of...

This seems to be purely a believability issue. There is definitely a believability issue with the movement changes, but as ainatan keeps pointing out, there's a discrepancy in the ability of characters to move that has the potential to come up in every combat. It's a functional issue in...

Yes. These attacks are made with a -4 penalty. SRD sez: You can make an attack with an unarmed strike, natural weapon, or light weapon against another character you are grappling. You take a -4 penalty on such attacks. However, there is an issue here: do natural weapons count as weapons for...

The dangerous dungeon makes sense if it's a tomb. Nobody is ever supposed to enter, but there's treasure buried with the dead. How to keep out the living? Kill them with extreme prejudice. Puzzles basically never make sense though. Puzzles are usually some kind of key or password to get you...

Having something extremely dangerous happen until the puzzle is solved sometimes helps. "Hey, can you hurry up with that thing? I think there's an infinite number of demons on the other side of this portal, and they're queued up to kill us."

I'm also keeping my fingers crossed that this time around we might see a more structured design effort that helps to keep things balanced against earlier supplements so there is less danger for DMs to allow new books at their table without first going through with a fine toothed comb for...

Buy the DM a bottle of wine and get him drunk enough to agree on playing it. Then use the empty bottle to sneak attack the paladin until he's unconscious. Damn paladins. Remember, a helpless character is a willing character. ;)