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Bards are not a full caster the way Mages, Clerics, and Druids are. When people speak of casters vs others it's safe to assume there's an implied "full caster" meaning behind it. Bards are on par with Paladins and Rangers, none of which are full casters. So this, as well as the rest of your...

Chalk me up as another person who thinks spells ought to be rated lower than feats. First, casters have a pretty easy time adjusting their selection of spells as they go. Beyond the basic ability to change loadout every single day, they (or at least some of them) can recover spent slots...

Thanks for the clarification. And yes, the goblin/commoner issue is a weird situation. If the fatal damage came right at the end of a long and hard battle I could see it work, the enemy just too tired to even raise its hands anymore so you basically can kill him as a free action (in other words...

You're twisting the words of the spell though. The full line is: "It appears to be the same as the original, but it has only one-half of the real creature’s levels or Hit Dice (and the appropriate hit points, feats, skill ranks, and special abilities for a creature of that level or HD)." The...

You seem to be contradicting yourself here. On the hand you say that a hit doesn't connect, but then a miss means that you do connect? That seems wrong. My take on it is that if one uses hit points to include energy and fatigue (I see no reason why it has to be exclusively either that or meat...

For some reason it claimed that I am a Specialist. "You favor a particular character type that you play in most campaigns you're involved in. Ninjas are quite popular. You want the rules to support your favorite kind of character, but otherwise, it's not a big deal. And, you want to be able to...

I don't really have a "dealbreaker" as such I guess. I approach it from this angle: I already have a ton of RPGs and a large selection of players with which to game who are up for pretty much anything I suggest. So it's up to the game to win me over. Simply having "D&D" on the cover of the book...

Yes, it is hyperbole. Everything you just said I already took into account in my previous post. If you'd read my second paragraph a little closer you'd see that. A character who succeeds 60% of the time still faces a significant chance of failure. A character who succeeds 70% of the time still...

I'd just like to point out that am181d advocated that PCs should succeed "most of the time". Nothing more. Having a 51% chance of success is successful "most of the time". There's some people who claim there is no challenge if PCs succeed "most of the time" (because a 49% failure rating is no...

This question has come up a few times before and I think that Mearls tweeted something along the lines of, "oh yeah we forgot, try DC 10 or something". I don't remember the exact words but it was about as precise as that. I'm not aware if we've received a more precise answer since then.

Now this position I can understand a lot better. It's true that 4e characters, particularly non-spellcasters, have more options and powers and "cool" effects than before. People sometimes claimed that 4e made everybody into a Wizard because of this. That's not a very accurate assessment of the...

I already addressed this in my post. No, he isn't a one-trick pony. He has multiple at-wills, encounters, and dailies to use. He is a pony with all the tricks you'd expect a pony to have, plus an extra one. It's important to remember that his particular slide-trip combo is an entire layer that...

Uh, couple of things... First, Syndrome is quite literally a cartoon villain. One with very petty, childish motivations at that. Quoting him to illustrate one's position is a little problematic. Second, his argument hinges on everybody being special. If every character could do the lightning...

I do like some things about Next (quick chargen and combat for instance) but during the playtests I've already experienced that PC concepts are rather monotonous. Bear with me for a moment. I'm talking about mechanical aspects. More "roleplaying" oriented aspects are of course as free as...

That's not so odd. All of those things you list can be viewed as in character elements. A person could stand there and say, "oh this sword is dedicated to the god of justice" or "only dwarves can bear the Iron Crown" or something. But class groups make far less sense than that. Why does this...

I notice you only quote the silliest parts of my post and leave out the more serious stuff, like healing kits. It doesn't fill me with confidence about your commitment to an honest debate. And yes, when people claim to have a solution they usually bring up some problems first. That's how...

That's not really true, though. If it's a Wisdom/Athletics check to ascertain the difficulty of scaling a wall, then it's also a Wisdom/Blacksmithing check to inspect the quality of an item. And you wouldn't need a forge and anvil for that. Furthermore, there are some cases where the line gets...

Again, that is the underlying meaning that you yourself as ascribing to the statement. The word "simple" can mean a lot of different things to different people. The whole "you don't need a lot of decision points" thing is not something Mike said, it's something you said. That's my point. I...

That's because they're Barnum Statements. I encourage everybody to read up on the Forer effect. This is not only helpful to discuss this article but also in life in general. It sounds like you bought directly into the Barnum statements. That's not an attack or flaw on your part, it's the most...

I don't disagree with that, but we're not talking about that either. We're talking about how many spells he can prepare. The L&L article states on that subject: "Your levels in those individual classes determine which spells you can prepare." That suggests to me that the character in question...