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Fact: If I ever DM a 4e game, the party will at some point be attacked by boobed female dragonborn stranglers.

1,000 page textbooks cost around $175 to $200. WotC could make 1,000 page books. Only problem is that you'd be shelling out like $500 for the core books, and you'd be left with a game that that has a learning curve that ought to be measured in semesters or quarters, and running the game would...

When I say I want a monster with a cool move, no more no less... Why do you need to load down a monster with a ton of character levels and templates to make it do something that could just be handled simply by one or two exceptions? Bugbears are sneaky. In 1e they had a flat 50% chance of...

I'll agree with that I think 3e is the culprit in terms of conditioning people into thinking that humanoid monsters must be built with rules for PCs, and by extension, anything a humanoid monster can do a player can do. I'm glad that 4e is dropping this mindset, because I think it is wrong in...

Well you had a fundamental choice: Make the monsters 'cool' even though the PCs didn't have those options. or Make the monsters 'Casper Milquetoast' just because the PCs didn't have those options. The latter seems to be the strictly worse option. Why make something less cool because...

This. I'd also be happy if by having a system that the players and the DM know what their options are, and thereby serve as an aid to help folks with the RPing. Don't know what the DM is hinting at with his dialog? Sense motive on the NPC. If you make it, the DM knows he can spell it out...

But is that a problem with the game system or a problem with the players trying to put a round peg in a square hole? If grabbing a handful of flower and throwing it into somebody's face is deemed appropriate by the DM for a fight taking place in a bakery, and is allowed, and then dis-allowed...

I'm not really seeing how that makes it miniature centric. You can just use a pencil to write 'O' in a square of graph paper to represent an orc and never have to lay a finger on a single miniature. If this is about the squares themselves and not miniatures... Well I needed graph paper to...

I'm looking forward to it too. I've not played D&D in a very long time. The 3e rules were a vast improvement over the old rules, but stuff like online games drew me away from D&D. With the focus of 4e seeming to be on 'doing stuff' instead of adding numbers, I'm looking forward to looking...

I thought this was super hilarious. Then again, I find looking at my own behavior to be quite hilarious. The stupider it is, the bigger the laugh.