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I'm not sure there does beyond "Is this meant to be played as an RPG?" Consider the original Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader - its clearly a tabletop wargame, right? The default described mode of play is one. But there are a suprising number of typical roleplaying game trappings attached to it...

Ludicrious hyperbole isn't really making your point. The above is as reasonable as saying that a situation thats addressed by a skill challenge in 4e was covered by playing Mother-May-I in 1e. Lets take the example of avoiding bandits on the way back from Castle Greyhawk. In both cases the...

I'd say that siloing (defined as picking elements in limited numbers from different menu's with no overlap) is certainly a good thing. The thing with combat in this context is that it is a contagious trump. Once you start swinging everything else comes to a halt until thats resolved. You...

Currently Lunatic misfits kill things, take stuff, save the world Though I imagine that kind of describes a lot of campaigns.

Theres another factor here if you are going for a realism arguement - the change in length of the combat rounds. With a 1 minute round, you have a chance to assess the situation, see the flow of the combat and how it's turning for/against you. With a 6 second combat round, a large number of...

Its a quote of an old and famous RPG.net post.

The artifacts.

Yeah, something like that would make a fine Unearthed Arcana or Iron Heros style book. Comparing my Exalted 2e core and 4e PHB here, the "how to roleplay" and "how to design and characterise your character" advice in 4e is remarkably more substantial than that in the Exalted book, which is...

I agree, symbols on dice could be really good, depending on how clear they turn out. I'm thinking the old Blood Bowl block dice, its a randomiser and chart lookup in one!

I agree, its a difficult ground to find. One balancing area could be that powers generally do damage *and* effect while you could rule that stunts just to damage *or* effect. Or that they require limited terrain resources to pull off (tapestrys and so forth). Theres problems with these...

I don't think that theres anyone that will deny that there aren't any similarities between 4e and WoW, but I think people are often suprised/confused by the examples chosen. For example, you mention suprise/perception and treasure. The rules for suprise/perception are almost identical...

I have to say, its morbidly facinating. Most bizzare place I found it was on the WoW forums where almost the exact same arguement can be found on threads demanding "Vanilla" servers.

Its entirely possible that theres another, worse, article thats somewhere else, a blog perhaps. You may be more justified than you think :) The issue is that the developers have come out and said that its still largely about the common man and that ratcatchers (and their small, but vicious...

I don't think he's saying that peoples playstyles and preferences are bad there - he's saying that 3e's multiclassing system heavily informed the process of class design. Specifically, the frontloading of features into the first level of a class. You can see the results of this in the move...

I think that's Hussar/Fifth Element's point. Perhaps, at the time, you did find that article offensive - that it mentions the one detail of content (slimes not dropping treasure) that you remember suggests that it may well be the article you were thinking of. Reading again in retrospect can...

This is probably the article you are thinking of Imban: 4th Edition Excerpts: Economy & Reward Note he doesn't say anything about fun, or that the 3e version was un-fun, just that randomly generated treasure makes it difficult to match the expected wealth-by-level and attempting to do so...

4e ones more powerful? Given that the 3e ones have access to save-or-dies, superior divination and mobility, miss chances and vastly stronger buffs if you were to match a mid level party of 3e characters against an equivilent 4e party they would probably annihilate them in one or two rounds...

I'm really not getting why you think wizards can't light things on fire. They can summon flames at will (Scorching Burst) and Prestidigation specifically calls out starting fires as one of its abilities. Dry papers are given as an example of something that that would be vulnerable to fire. If...

When it comes to the moderation differences - have you reported posts that you think are threadcrapping or have you just been hoping the mods will spot them? They've stated elsewhere that they generally only act on reports - the boards are pretty large and they don't get to all threads.

Looking back to the thread title, I think there are two different circumstances being argued here - playing *apparent* losers, and playing *actual* losers. In genre literature, an *actual* loser as a protagonist is pretty rare, but as BraveSirKevin says, there are many *apparent* losers...