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If we're trying to model reality as we know it, hit points just don't cut it, as we've always known them. Hit points are explicitly plot protection. (AKA luck, divine favor, dodgitude, stamina, and whatever else.) Wizards get more hit points by becoming better spell-slingers, for jiminy's sake...

You know how they say 'Men are from Mars, and women are from Venus'? I think we need an adage along those lines for gamers, 'cause I can relate to literally nothing you wrote here.

Well that's an interesting rule, and certainly takes some teeth out of the res rules.

A cheat would let me activate Super-Sonic mode and never die in the first place. :) GP-for-resing is just how the game world works; like HPs, it's a convenient way to create tension without making things so dangerous that PCs say "Screw this dangerous adventuring :):):):), I'm going back to...

So it sounds like 13A is trying a new take on res costs -- i.e., the 'five lives' approach rather than the monetary cost. I wanted to clarify because for those of us who don't know 13A, your OP can easily be interpreted as "Look at all the great restrictions and penalties that 13A puts on resing...

My bad, I meant ask whether res still has a monetary cost. Best of luck to you, but I think many players will realize that while res's are more costly, rolling up Bob the Fighter XIV is easy as ever. And that's strong incentive to treat Bob I as a disposable toon. It may not be a big issue if...

Color me nonplussed. Even being a memorable event, I'd still want players to track their res count -- assuming I enforced this rule at all -- as I've found that even well-intentioned players can forget surprisingly memorable events. Myself included. Also, I can't say that I want death to be such...

The former, by both intent and [sometimes] in practice. That said, I could happily game without feats except that I can't think of a better way to handle things like extra languages and extra skills. Maybe someday someone will come up with a brilliant way to handle those things, and we won't...

Agreed. Those few feats really are the fly in the 4e pudding. I'd also point out that the original math-fix feat taxes appears right in the 3.0 PHB -- Weapon Finesse and Power Attack. Dex-based characters don't leave home without WF, and every high-level muggle needs a way to trade accuracy for...

To clarify, I shouldn't have mentioned Paizo at all, because I really don't care one way or the other about it, and all it's done is sidetrack the discussion. (I was simply miming the sentiments I've seen to the effect of "Paizo is such a great company, wouldn't it be peaches and cream if they...

Note that like the cleric, the paladin doesn't actually lose anything rules-wise for violating his or her alignment restriction. (Though the paladin's superiors might do something to punish the heretic, like putting a price on his or her head.) So effectively, there is no restriction.

You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become a villain?

Too subjective. Pretty much any given class has fans and haters. For my money though, anything from the Tome of Magic is all kinds of awesome. ...Style-wise, at least.

...You mean like 90% of all internet discussions, and 99% of all internet gaming discussions? ;)

When discussing the industry, it's fun to think about things that will never happen, like "What if Paizo owned D&D"? Assuming that Paizo wrote a ruleset that you personally loved (or stuck with PF if you love it)... ...It's an appealing thought. Paizo seems to be a much better company than...

Yes. Yes, it is, without a doubt.

And if Paizo did take over management of D&D, who's to say it wouldn't end up managing it just like WotC, after building up a bigger revenue stream? Like how MTV went from music videos to reality garbage, which made everyone complain. So VH1 became the next MTV...until it replaced its MVs with...

Indeed. Some of us have never officially recognized the change. ;)

What Storminator and Psi said, with the addendum that it's not just PC attacks that fall behind -- PC NADs fall behind too. Many DMs give out Improved Defenses for the same reason.

Correct. Of course, you get penalties for wearing armor you're not proficient with, so there's that to think about. Yes. Any ranged or area attack provokes OAs. (Note that only powers which actually say 'area' count as area powers; close powers do not provoke.) Yes, but I write mine by hand on...