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Well, that's because the books are meant to teach the game to newbies. 4E core books more than 3.xE, IMHO. When you introduce someone new to the game, usually the best way is go with archetypes and stereotypes. The powerful and muscular dwarven fighter. The weak and intelligent elf wizard. The...

I don't agree. The rules say that "if you want an optimal party" you MUST have all the roles covered. This is indeed true. But the big question is: "do you really want to have an optimal party in YOUR game?". If the answer is no, then all you have to do is having your DM adjust the encounters...

I'd apply a variant of the antropic principle here. Are there forest in your world? Well, that means that magic missile hurling wizards did not destroy them. Why and how you want to rationalize this is not my problem. Me, I just make do with some common sense.

Actually, I think most of the new / most innovative settings were all PoL style at the beginning. In Dark Sun, you just knew that there were those City States around, and all the rest had to be filled. Planescape, gave a broad vision of every plane, and some interesting place here and there...

Agree. I hate killing trees like anybody else around, but I admit that nothing compares to having something to read in printed format. That said, I could stand it if they gave me something that printed paper can not give me, such as indexing, linking, word search, and all the other stuff that...

Those kind of powers don't have a "charm" keyword because they are not compulsions. In facts they work equally well with oozes and constructs. Actually if they were charms I'd say meh at having them in the martial source. They are out-manouvers, at least as I see them. The DM places the enemies...

Most of the problems arise because ye are used as PLAYERS to think of D&D combat as round based. This is necessary mechanically speaking in order to run the game, but is a semplification of what is happening on the battlefield. All combat for the CHARACTERS is happening simultaneously, instead...

Exactly.

This, definitely. The rule is there to prevent players to abuse class powers or claim they're not getting an OA because they're firing their arrows to an opponent in melee. If you use a bow to whack people around, you're not going to get any mechanical benefit (actually, since it does the same...

Actually, there can be heroism, danger, uncertainty and tension in a boardgame, too. And I'm pretty sure during combat you really want to have a grid in 4e. Well, you see, it wasn't me to open my discussion with an outright declaration that I'm understanding the rules and therefore playing...

I WILL tell my players who the minions are, and I don't think I suck because you decided so. Actually, I will not straightforwardly tell that, but I'm sure to give them enough visual and descriptive hints so that they figure out. Classes are built on their role. Wizards are controllers...

And I quote. In 4e I really think that the place for effects that can have such effects and whose limit is just the amount of cash the players have is a Ritual book.

Where is it different from 3.x? Callit vands of vigor, call it healing surges,If you exaust your healing, you are in deep trouble.

Well, it's obvious who the minions are: they're the ones wearing a red jacket! Jokes aside, IMHO minions should not have a "M" floating over them, but players should in most cases be able to discern them, because they are supposed to look and act like minions, and because of some good reasons...

I was planning to runa a Captain america like character at the first occasion. My vision of Cap is completely envisioned by the words of Frank Miller in Daredevil: Reborn. Paraphrafased: "He has the voice that could give orders to a god. And he does". That screams Warlord, IMHO. I don't care...

Don't know... I might be wrong but I strongly suppose he was being somewhat ironic.

Quote for truth. The fact that PCs get exactly the items they want/need is as verisimilitude breaking as Frodo getting the One Ring out of all halfl... er hobbits of the Shire. See, it happens he's the main character of the story. If Pippin happened to be Bilbo's nephew, then the Eye would...

I used to do this sometimes in 3e too. I got a little app that after putting in appropriate values would generate treasure. I used to run it 10 times and then pick up the treasure I liked most, after maybe some tweaking. The point here is that I needed some darn app to do it, because no way I...

I really like the parcel system and I also view it as a set of sound guidelines in order to keep the game balanced. I don't think it's intended to be a "per encounter" or "per creature killed" loot system like it was in the past. The parcels encompass all treasure the party is expected to get...

Yes, but in D&D basic attributes span much more than in "real life". After all, we're condensing a person in just 6 numerical values. Same for DEX, for example. High DEX makes you better at firing arrows and tumbling. I bet there are a lot of good sharpshooters in the world that are awful...