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Minions are a great idea. Sorry you don't like the idea. Did you have a point about "bloodied" or are you trying to derail this into more edition-warring anti-4e tirades?

You're comparing apples to oranges.

Your introduction smacks too much of edition warring. I can't see this thread being too useful, but I hope I'm proven wrong.

According to the offline monster builder, the Cave Troll appeared in Dungeon #157.

Wasn't that a lot of metagaming? I mean, he's clearly running down the list of Known Magic Items In The DMG (which his character really shouldn't have access to) as opposed to reasonably trying to figure out what the ring does.

No, death spirals are crappy and don't actually improve D&D in any way.

I see the potential for a healing module based on Streetwise rolls. :D

Clearly 50 Cent is Epic Level.

The polls are getting worse and worse. I wish they wouldn't bother.

Vexing Flanker doesn't do that. Are you sure you're talking about the right thing? Some feats -- e.g., Raging Reach -- don't require that you "have reach" but that you are "using a reach weapon." An ability which increases your melee reach does not make your weapon into a reach weapon, so it...

How'sabout something simple like, Assassin class feature: During a surprise round, you can make a coup-de-grace attack against a surprised creature.

Why would assassins in particular get "save or die" effects and other characters do not? I'm at a loss as to why you are thinking of this regarding one particular class -- there's no thematic/fluff/conceptual reason that an assassin could kill someone with one hit and a rogue, wizard, or...

Maybe you need to read up on the 4e rules before making statements about them, then? It's really hard when literally we are not on the same page in discussions because some of us don't know what "bloodied" means.

If you want "save or die" in your game, then why not just make it a save-or-die effect?

It's not a "derogatory term," it's a value-neutral statement of a mechanic. (And "bloodied" in 4e is explicitly NOT a death spiral. In fact, in many conditions, characters become MORE powerful when bloodied, not less.)

No. No to death spirals, no to complex bookkeeping. Just, no.

4e's errata and fixes are free.

D&D is not "based with the realities of human life" either. Someone has quite reasonably proposed a 50% standard that is demographically sound and presents a default vision of the D&D universe as being non-sexist. You object to that and are arguing that, by default, D&D must present a sexist...

So you're saying that you not only want D&D to automatically impose sexism as the default play style, you also want that baked into the artistic representations of the game just in case someone might maybe get the idea that you could play D&D without sexist assumptions about female characters...

That doesn't really mean much of anything; they began developing 3.5 immediately after the release of 3.0, and they likewise began developing 4e quite early into 3.5's lifetime.