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There's nothing to watch; just a couple photos of nerds giving all of us a bad name, and then the ringleader exercising his grammarfail to tell us about how his nerdrage is 'performance art.'

You probably don't mean "I don't care about numbers" in an extreme and literal way, but for the sake of discussion: Imagine an incarnation of the D&D fighter that literally is just "A guy who straps on steel to face down monsters and magic for fortune and glory," with no supporting numbers to...

You are right that ttrpgs are in many ways fundamentally different from pure strategy games, and even digital rpgs. At the same time though, D&D isn't a freeform rpg or like the rule-less cowboys & indians games some of us played as kids. It has rules involving numbers, and they influence...

Not that I know of, but there are like a zillion rituals. Is it unlikely that your DM would turn your search into a (mini-)adventure, even if you specifically told him that you really want to find Mark?

Was it the barbarian thinking the wizard was being possessive, or the barbarian's player thinking the wizard's player was being possessive? Or both? This is something that I likely wouldn't allow simply because it has great potential to result in real player vs. player anger. Unless the players...

I can't count the times that someone has posted "I don't like 4e because I can't do X," where X is something they would have found by merely perusing the table of contents. Just today, a Paizo fan claimed "I can't make my own 4e monsters without DDI." :hmm:

Yup, and the intuitive rules tend to be the ones that we first gamed with in our naive teen or childhood years. :)

But I can win the internet, I know I can! ;)

Yup, this is the only explanation I can think of for why stuff like martial dailies and wish listing provoke nerdrage, but things like hit points and AC-dissociated-from-level* get a free pass. Familiarity softens the hard edges of what we know, and makes the new edges all that much more...

Yeah, Unaligned is very popular IME too. I kept telling my players "Don't even bother filling in that space, 'cause alignment doesn't matter in 4e!" And they kept filling in 'Unaligned' anyway. Just to be safe, I guess, or maybe the CB requires an alignment? :confused: From a player's...

I think I would have kept silent, just to see how she reconciled everything, and whether her head would explode in the process. ;) Yup, when I read the alignment portion of the 4e PHB I thought "Oh, they renamed Neutral!"

Well, it's good to see that a six year old edition war is still going strong!

My problem with the monk is that it's this one randomly specific asian-themed class in a faux-medieval Europe milieu. That page space could be filled with a more versatile pugilist class, but I guess enough players want to be Jacky Chan with magical powers that the devs devote those pages to the...

I don't care for all of the changes that 4e made either -- tieflings, the 'divine empowerment ritual,' and most notably the wizard -- but I think you're overestimating the number of people who get hung up on names. A car used to be an unreliable horseless carriage that required manual cranking...

Okay, this I can work with. And in fact, I agreed with you a few posts ago; don't hold your breath for others to agree though. Wrong again, and I'm getting tired of being accused of strawmanning, so I'm ending this conversation. Enjoy your "law of physics" alignment requirements and codes of...

Not to my knowledge, they don't, but then I don't know every detail about those settings. But more importantly, I believe we went over this a few pages back, which resulted in me realizing that you don't actually want to discuss this -- you just want to argue. So you'll forgive me for not...

I'm really not intentionally misrepresenting your opinions. I'm just trying to consolidate your Central Issue(s) into one concise package, so I took what you told me: And I paraphrased it as accurately and as succinctly as I could. But if I didn't capture the spirit of your position, please...

So your central issue is "I want paladins to be defined the traditional way, and only the traditional way by default, and I want others to acknowledge that anything else makes me unhappy." If that about sums it up, I do indeed understand your position, and I think where it comes from. Well, I'm...

What mechanics, in particular, if you don't mind sharing? For my part, I don't like D&D's traditional inconsistency when it comes to classes-as-professions. We've got very generic classes that can be anything from highwaymen to strictly scrupulous warriors to maniacal tyrants to do-gooder...

Okay, so far we're on the same page. What is the rest of your Central Issue? I apologize for making you repeat yourself, but there's been a lot of back-and-forth, and I haven't followed nearly all of it.