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I think you are being far too literal in the face of an anecdote that wasn't. Wick is not saying that there should be an entry on the character sheet that reads "Hope:" and then has a box after it to enter a number. What he is saying, imo, is that what the game is about should be represented...

There is advancement though. It's not in the area of technology or efficiency, but in the area of experience and knowledge, and no less important. When Gary first set out to publish the original pamphlets, how many D&D gamers do you think there were in the entire world? A couple dozen? 30...

Ha, 2e scribble looks like Ron Jeremy, that is definitely an "old school" porno-stash. :) Long before there was an OSR, I had a run in with a young cousin who had just discovered D&D. He was 13 or so and excited about his new hobby. Discovering I played set him off and he went on and on...

I agree with Mr. Wick in a lot of ways. Any story can be boiled down to a core essence, even if what exactly that is is somewhat open to perception. For example, while I agree with Midget's post, I don't agree with his summary of LotR. I think evil largely stands as a metaphor for any...

I haven't played a ranger in 4e yet and was tinkering with the class in the CB. It seemed, on screen at least, that you could make a ranger that was solid at both ranged and melee. The basic question is - can you? And could some of you ranger experts give some examples/maths in support of...

I'll post more later, as I love talking skill challenges. As I have no time right now, I'll just throw up a link to the skill challenge design section of the At-Will blog which has some excellent articles. At-Will

Thank you! Now we can avoid the whole silly mess and get back to our regularly scheduled edition war. :)

Well, with such a well reasoned, fact based analysis as this, I have no choice but to accept your conclusions. :roll eyes

Here, here! This was exactly the pick-up I needed heading into my weekend (and game night here in about half an hour). I've played and loved every edition of D&D there is, starting in the late 70s. I expect to play and love at least a few more before I shuffle off this mortal coil. Thanks...

That's my issue exactly. Everyone freaks out and overreacts rolling out rather insane conspiracy theories, but I don't see many people wondering simply if sales weren't meeting expectations, or even coming close (likely because everyone just downloads a .pdf when they want one), so they pulled...

I've asked this elsewhere, but how is this a big deal or some huge problem. Who was really buying these .pdfs anyway? If they weren't selling well, either because the .pdf market isn't that big or everyone just pirates it anyway, why keep an unprofitable revenue stream going? I need someone...

I've already fully analyzed it and come to the carefully considered conclusion that this is way overpowered and broken. Power creep has come to 4e. We are all doomed.

Make a portable version. Get a flat, smooth square of wood a bit bigger than your battlemat and attach wooden planks about 6-8" wide with l-brackets on one side in an X or + (to make it stable and leave as much space up under the raised battle area as possible. This piece should be easy to...

Charwoman is a GUY!?

Jack is right. For a minion, just take an example of that race, draw a line through its role derived powers, leave its racial powers unless they have to do with hit points (notice orc minions simply lose the orcs surge power), set their HP to 1, and change their xp to a minion of that level...

I publicly question your moderator decision and wish to encourage much and varied public debate on this matter.

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This is an assumption you've made throughout this thread, but I don't think you've ever made a compelling case for why this is a core part of the fluff/flavor of the druid. "They always had that ability before" is not a compelling case. They've been really overpowered before, having way too...

I know what you mean. The melee-caster power gap is not an opinion or some myth. It's been a well established problem with 3e for years. It's been analyzed to death on the WotC forums, the designers have acknowledged it several times and they tried to patch it several times (PHB2, Tome of...

Me too, how did this thing spoil us so quickly! My group is starting back up a high level 3e game, converted to high paragon 4e and I shudder at trying to make 5 17th level characters without the CB.