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Your response here is basically a slight variation of what you posted over in the "what has to be save-or-die" thread. I hope this isn't a trend, as it leaves the impression that you find that "do whatever you want in your game" represents a simple, overlooked insight that remedies any need for...

Yes, I'm going to have to live with that. I do hold out hope that there's a chance we'll get rid of the meaningless number that represents the actual bonus.

It was you who said that having multiple XP charts "adds variety and it keeps the game moving". I'm asking you how exactly it keeps the game moving. Are you now recanting that position? Well, saying "that game is not D&D" is not rational. It's pure sentimentality, so there's no speaking to it...

Well, I guess silence speaks volumes.

You apparently have been playing a lot of HERO System, because in D&D they're called "ability scores", not "characteristics". :) Seems the only reason to advocate randomly-rolled characters is specifically so that a lot of players *won't'* get the characters they want. It is essentially a way...

You have me a little confused. Please clarify. Someone was recently suspended essentially for telling people they weren't allowed to express disagreement with each other. But here it is disruptive for me to discuss disagreement. You're using the word "deconstruct" instead of "disagree", but...

Wrong on both counts--objectively in the first case, and as a matter of opinion in the second. First off, an appeal to tradition is a logical fallacy when the person making the appeal assumes the tradition holds intrinsic value simply because it's a tradition. Jiggawatts may personally like the...

I just threw out the "appeal to tradion" fallacy in another thread. Don't make me do it again so soon. MS has always tried to slap vanilla Windows onto a tablet. Windows will be 8 touchscreen and tablet-friendly from the get-go. The pre-release candidate has been available to play with for...

Wonder when this will go free-to-play.

Does naybody remember tactical feats from 3e? You spend a feat, you get three maneuvers you can do. They required you set up conditions to unlock a more powerful. In other words, they required actual tactics. And because you got three-for-one, you weren't just spamm the same tactic over and over...

This is the "appeal to tradition" fallacy. That something "has always been such-and-such" is not a compelling reason why that state of affairs should continue. You speak of flavor. Isn't a character that breaks the mold much more flavorful than someone whose following in his race's pre-ordained...

Can't the yetis just use their teeth and for regular damage? Don't the fire elementals have access to weapons, or just slam attacks? :) The big problem in 4e is that casters have a very small, prescribed "deck" of spells. You can't just memorize non-fire spells even if you know you'll be...

There are some sticky issues with traps that have made their usage fairly awkward and often moot in both 3e and 4e. Some folks think they're downright passé. I'd like to go over the major issues and see if any kind of meaningful discussion is sparked. 1) One-Hit Cheap-Shot Nature: While there...

This is mirrored to a large degree by the pace at which an adventure (and the DM) dole out challenges. Just as the toughest battle doesn't occur 15 pages into the book, the first fight of an adventure should tend to be light work, not an epic nail-biter. If you can have a sufficient buffer...

3e skeletons were immune to sneak attack damage. Pathfinder and 4e skeletons are not. in 4e, you always get sneak attack damage. Again, it's not hard to interpret why a sneak attack is more damaging. Pretty much anything has a week point (GalaxyQuest rock monsters notwithstanding). The topic...

This is one of those threads where I wish the OP was tackling the braod issue, not a specific peccadillo. Here's the real question: should D&D be a game where long-term or even irrevocable consequences can be imposed on a character? Two schools of thought: If D&D is intended to simulate the...

Seems like your default outlook is negative and narrow. Skeletons have no vital spots? The human skeleton is full of weak points. It is not a seamless, flawless construct by any means. It has oints that can shattered, vertebrae that can be severed. Cut the spine below the ribcage, and what...

What it means is this: everyone's wants cannot be catered to, therefore at some point, the individual must yield and meet part-way on the issue of verisimiitude, which in the context of a game is really just a matter of rationalization.

To be clear, that was a tablet-specific comment. The tablets will have a full-featured Windows OS option. Smartphones won't. Yes, but they don't pay for the license, and that's s surcharge that gets passed along to the cutomer when they buy a computer with Windows pre-installed. It's not MS...

And if the barbarian's already passed out, he dies. If he's already dead, he implodes through time and space resulting in him never having been born. IMHO, forget both 3e and 4e rages. Rage should just be something that builds up during combat and is expended, somewhat like Iron Heroes'...