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lol, no. You're confusing "Nonsense that I haven't had years to internalize and rationalize" with general "nonsense." Let's look at how hit points work in every edition: They're an abstraction of luck, skill, dodgitude, stamina, whatever. Except that there are a myriad of situations in which...

I love when edition warriors say "I don't want a repeat 4e"...but this has nothing to do with edition warring. :heh: Priceless.

It's pretty funny what people get flabbergasted by: Hit points and damage are abstract...except when they're not. (Crits, sneak attacks, specific damage types, falling, ect..) "I've been rationalizing this stuff since day one, so it's A-okay! Also because tradition!" Some attacks deal half...

I'd say that epic play isn't one of D&D's strong suits, but that all things considered, 4e does a more than decent job of making it fun.

IME, GM authority extends fairly far, but is not absolute. Frex, I have my GM foibles (hello, hex maps!), which many players don't care for but will put up with for the sake of not having to GM themselves. But there are times when GM authority just doesn't matter: 1. A couple years ago I...

Yes. Yes. Yes. 4e very consciously avoids the "1st level PCs can die to one lucky damage roll" trope of other editions, though even 40 hp isn't as much as it sounds, when you meet your first tough encounter. Yes. Though this won't happen often; we are talking about a striker critting with a...

About to start a brand new 4e campaign with a new group! Why? I guess I'm still in love with 4e. :)

Same here. If a race is inherently violent/brutal/domineering/rapey, I've got no problem calling them evil. I've never gamed with anyone who didn't understand the difference between pretend evil races and real people who just happen to have different skin color. But I can understand people who...

Yeah, same here. I like how 4e handles a lot of things, but tiefling artwork isn't one of them. Whenever they appear in my games, they're bizarre badass DiTerlizzi tieflings. :cool: In my mind, at least, 'cause it's all in the mind. I don't think that means what you think it means. /grammar nazi

Yup, same here. Mostly, my concepts are about class, not race. If it weren't for stat boosts, 90% of my characters would be human because honestly, humanoids are essentially just human sub-races that magnify a particular aspect or two of humanity. And I can't be arsed to remember those little...

Haven't read the play test lately, but what I read at the start was ho hum. I don't have the time to play test yet another edition of D&D that doesn't jump out and shout PLAY ME!, and I don't have the money to buy a game that I probably won't like better than what I already have. If someone...

By 'memorable,' I don't necessarily mean "an edition I LOVE!" I mean "a distinctive edition, that I likely love or hate." I think you'll agree that both 3e and 4e are memorable, in part because so many gamers either love 'em or hate 'em. Also because they both brought new things to the table --...

Bingo. Until 4e, my attitude was "Ooh, I can't wait to see what the new rules look like!" But I'm a bit older now, so my attitude has become "This has to be better than what I already have for me to even consider buying it."

I think dis/advantage and 'bounded accuracy' will disappoint many gamers in the long run. In execution, if not in principle. If all those modules do in fact appear, most will either end up as 'common law RAW' by most 5e tables or ignored by most 5e tables. But mostly I think 5e will be too much...

I've no clue, but I'm not going to hold my breath for a good movie, or worry about WotC canning D&D the ttrpg if 5e does poorly.

Interesting, I've never heard this slang term before either. Without knowing why 'drift' is relevant, all I have to go on is the word's common definition... I guess I'd call any deviation at all from a game's explicit setting and/or rules as drifting. And it would be a spectrum; the occasional...

In fact I recently finished reading a 14-book series, where the magic is much better modeled by psionics than vancian casting. They were written by some obscure guy named...let's see if I can remember...Robert Jordan! It's all very classic zero-to-hero fantasy...not at all like D&D, but I still...

Psionics is just another flavor of magic, and power points are just another means of producing spells. I'm happy to have 'em in any game of mine, as some players really enjoy them.

Okay, I don't have anything invested in this character, but I can't help nitpicking. The petal's adjusted abilities are: 3, 20, 15, 15, 10, 18. Even scores are assumed to have a base of 10, while odds are assumed to have a base of 11. Which makes the petal's racial mods: -8 Str, +8 Dex, +4 Con...

You could say "You can only benefit from X number of buffs at a time. Because [insert hand-wave explanation]." (Hey, it's magic. Who's to say how it works!) This one potentially screws over casters who rely on buffs to stay alive, but maybe you'd consider that a plus. Or you could go the 4e...