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I think he was suggesting that a party could get up in the morning, have a fight and use their APs, then extended-rest to reset APs, then have another fight and use their APs, then another extended rest, and so forth. Which would give them one AP per fight instead of per two fights. But they'd...

Since it's described as stepping through the Feywild, and it takes a move action, I don't see it as an instant bamf kind of thing. I envision an eladrin starting to walk forward like normal, but vanishing into the air as he completes his first step, as if he were walking behind an opaque...

Then 4e sounds like just the thing for you. 4e fighters have to deal with resource management because they have per-encounter and per-day powers as well as their at-will attacks. In 3.5, everything a fighter can do is at will. If you like resource management I can't see how you'd like 3.5...

+3 loincloth for the win!

There could still be a power where you grab an enemy and move them through or around your square; it would just have to be defined as a slide instead of a pull.

You can get AC enhancement bonuses on non-armor clothing in 4e, so such a character will be equally viable whether or not shields can can get those bonuses too. He'll still be subpar to someone wearing armor, though, just not by an amount that increases with level.

You're right that 4e has things in common with a certain variety of anime - but that's not the only place those things are found. I mean, I also think about battle-oriented anime when I read about 4e combat, but that's because I like battle-oriented anime. I've been thinking of RPG combats in...

I'm reserving judgement till I experience it in play. It looks neat, but I'm worried that it would be annoying to the other PCs to have the warlord's player continually telling them what neat thing they can do each round. Even without any requirement to do what the warlord suggests, it seems...

Hooray for hexes! I actually consider the first downside you mention to be an upside. The idea that eight dudes can surround one dude and all be close enough to punch him is kinda silly. Even six is a lot to squeeze around one guy. (It might be a bit different when a bunch of Small dudes are...

Possible oddities with pit traps are a small price to pay for fighters finally being able to block dragons' breath with their shields like they do in every fantasy artwork ever. (Yes, I'm exaggerating for effect. But seriously, that sort of thing happens all the time in illustrations and...

Half-orcs and half-elves are both kinda anemic. One GM I know gives them both the bonus skill point that humans get, so they're only giving up a feat in exchange for the racial stuff. It's not a perfect fix, but it has the advantage of being very quick and easy to apply.

That's good for some games, but in D&D you should be able to disregard a kobold if you're enough of a badass.

What am I missing that makes "you can't benefit from an amulet and a cloak" any less reasonable than "you can't benefit from two amulets"? I mean, it's just as physically possible to wear two necklaces as it is to wear a necklace and a cloak. If it didn't bother you that wearing two necklaces...

Nudging the table is an extremely egregious example. Most of the time you'll be dealing with things like at what angle someone places their thumb on the map while measuring, or nudging a mini a quarter-inch to one side as they take their hand off it, or any number of tiny things that happen by...

I was briefly into Warhammer Fantasy Battles (the mini-based wargame) a few years ago. It uses tape measures and such for movement. Measuring everything freakin' sucks. It slows the game to a crawl, and measuring by hand is frustratingly imprecise when you're trying to be tactical. I would...

Well, the cleric only has two alternate effects because he spent a feat on getting an extra one. That seems like the sort of thing feats do. In general, though, I think they just came up with the mechanic and then, once it was there, didn't exercise as much self-restraint as they might have. :)

I'd like to note that, if you were just looking at character sheets, you wouldn't think 3.5 characters could ever try to hit people with their shields either. Because the rules for shield bashing aren't on character sheets! Tide of Iron isn't a shield-bash ability. It's an ability for pushing...

It might have been something they came up with specifically to deal with Turn Undead. Having an encounter power that only works on undead would suck when you're not fighting undead and have this useless ability taking up space in your powers list, so they give you the option of spending that...

I, like, just posted the reason why not. You quoted it. If you don't like my reason, that's cool, but...

Huh... the cleric powers do require that you hit the enemy to get the buffing effect. That's odd. Shielding Smite doesn't, though - you get the shielding whether or not you hit. I like to think of it as a quick prayer done in the same round as a melee attack. And I think it's kinda neat that...