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In elite mixed martial arts, it's not as easy to trip someone as you might imagine. Sure, it's relatively simple for a karate student to walk up and trip an average guy, but elite fighters, it doesn't really work like that. Not only are takedown attempts tough to come by in mixed martial arts...

1) I haven't formed an opinion about that. 2) That's irrelevant to my point.

What's the point of starting a thread with the sole purpose of disparaging a number of people's opinions? There's a way to have this sort of discussion, but this certainly isn't it.

Just let it go. It's not worth starting an argument about.

I'm very apprehensive about this. One of the first things about the 4E Realms that I really don't like.

I like the stuff about halfling warlocks. In my world, halflings are a product of their physical disadvantage. After all, they can't afford to wage traditional battlefield war against the larger races without a significant numerical advantage, which they've never been able to achieve. So they've...

My PC races: Humans Dwarves - Some Mongolian flavor to spice them up a bit. The most populous race after humans. Elves - I want a bit of a Native American feel, but without going nowhere near making them Native Americans with pointy ears. I think there's some interesting elements that can be...

The paladin taking the warlord's stuff wouldn't bother me. The more I think about it, the more it seems the fighter, paladin, warlord, and cleric are treading some of the same ground. Other classes taking the paladin's stuff wouldn't bother me, either. I think I should be able to make a good...

Cool. Where have you read that?

I think the 'trained in Arcana' was merely referencing the character taking an extra specialization in the Arcana skill. From what I think I've read. SWSE's skill system allowed characters to designate a certain number of skills as trained.

I'm not a fan of this, but I'm not gonna get worked up about it. I just don't like it when companies try end-arounds like this to try and drum up my excitement.

I'm not a big fan of warlocks as a core class, but the following quote has made me nearly change my mind: That's the best possible way I could imagine to introduce warlocks into a world. Very cool. I also really like the sound of the spellscars. I hope they pull off some interesting mechanics...

I absolutely agree. I'm not sure, though, how much I want to see them go the devil-ish route but I'll wait and see what WotC does.

Is this one of those threads where I can use thinly-veiled sarcasm to disparage those that disagree with me? I love those.

No, I'm very fine with magic items increasing power. They'd be boring and pointless if they didn't. My problem is with the idea that 4E secondary magic items won't increase a character's power, that you can therefore remove them from the game if you want to reduce the Christmas Tree effect and...

You're right, I'm certainly making that assumption. I feel pretty safe with it, too.

If the wand of fireball is effectively replacing a wizard's magic missile in his suite of powers, then absolutely that's not balanced in the encounter sense. You said as much. You said that secondary items won't affect encounter balance as long as they're not out of line with class powers for...

I meant for my examples to be 1/day powers that would last for one encounter. I'll edit that post. The general point, though, still stands.

Another stumbling block: Let's say as a 1st level fighter I learned a power that gave me 1/day minor action that let's me increase my AC by 1 for one encounter. Later, at 10th level, I learned a power that gave me another 1/day minor action that let's me boost my strength by four for one...

Nor did I. The theory behind the thread is that secondary items will be fine as long as they're balanced because they're replacing existing actions with different, equal actions. It's options, not power. My point is, I don't think that balance is possible, let alone a reasonable expectation...