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Fear effects might be harder to justify, though.

Encounters doesn't require any Essentials rulebooks to run. Have you played Encounters? Have you run Encounters? LOL. I'm sure there's a lot you're not aware of, but it sure doesn't stop you from making pronouncements! So now you're shocked, shocked to find that 4e made rule changes back in...

Oh, good, you finally have an example of what you're talking about! So, question, do you think that when they changed the Stealth rules, that created a new edition of the rules? If so, then we've been playing 4.5 for quite some time now! Surely we're on 4.9.0.12 by this point. Do you agree...

Actually, the way the poll is structured, there's no way to vote "I am against Vancian magic." Part of why it's a terribly built poll, following an article that specifically asks "what should we get rid of?"

And it's not. Can you please give an example of what kind of information is needed from Essentials rulebooks specifically that is necessary for running a D&D Encounters session? Because I've run D&D Encounters sessions and I can't think of a single one. So when they changed the rules on...

I checked both those boxes, because I want some Vancian classes and some non-Vancian. Now I'm wondering if I did that the right way or not! Such a vague poll. Again, I wonder what they're hoping to learn from it. (Did some marketing exec tell them, "to make sure you're crowdsourcing this...

What are you talking about? The DM doesn't need to own every single rulebook (PHB1, PHB2, PHB3, Martial Power 1 & 2, Dark Sun, Neverwinter, Forgotten Realms, etc etc etc) to run D&D Encounters. Neither do they need to own Essentials to run it. I don't understand this argument you're trying to...

Sure they can. Why couldn't they? ETA: I'm currently an Encounters DM for this season. I didn't ever need to refer to an Essentials book for any particular reason while running the game for 12 sessions (so far). If anything, I needed "Heroes of the Feywild" (which isn't Essentials, of course)...

Persian Immortals (from 500 BC) wore chain mail? Good to know, I guess.

Terrifying shades of Alternity. I love the setting and some things about the system, but maaan that dice mechanic was a hot mess.

By "damage" are you talking damage per hit, or damage per round (DPR)? Because by DPR standards, avengers are quite competitive (and can also make fairly good crit fishers).

Really? Because what I've read, their DPR isn't really that far behind rangers.

Well, it's a reasonable business model. 4e mostly avoided this by restricting the number of options in initial releases, such that each subsequent book (Martial Power, Arcane Power, etc.) didn't actually offer much in direct power increases to existing characters, but offered alternate builds...

I just hope the specialists wizards are not based on the "schools of magic" (evocation, conjuration/summoning, divination, etc.) that were a bad adaptation of 1e's categories of spells into 2e's specialist class. They took something that was very flavorful (the illusionist as a separate...

Yeah, this whole poll seems really stupid, AS USUAL. I don't even know what they're trying do to here. I say we should try to break the poll and get something really stupid to appear to have a vast following. Like, "everyone be sure to vote YES on 'Weapons Versus Armor Table'!!!"

Damage revision came about in MM3 anyway, didn't it? So I guess MM3 (and the Dark Sun MM) are part of this hypothetical "4.5" version that people are claiming exists. :)

Except that for most versions of the game (starting with 2e), your character concept informed a lot of the decisions you made in the character creation process. Even in 1e AD&D, you had to do at least minimal thinking about what you wanted to play (put your stats in order based on your chosen...

The big problem for me with errata is that they used them to push forward rules changes too. There's a difference between fixing a typo and fixing the game system. I think they need to do both, mind you, but I don't think the "updates" system they've used wasn't the best idea. "Update" include...

In my AD&D/D&D games, the time consuming part was always thinking up the concept and idea for a character, not the actual stats themselves. Maybe I was doing it wrong or something, but I've always placed a premium on background, history, personality, and style.

You need more coup de grace action in your 4e games.