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Early Adopter. I can see that. As for motivation, WOTC is delivering 4E for profit. That is the motivation. Any attempt to think they are delivering it (more than, say, 10%) because they want to improve the game is, well, I don't think justified if you look at the business end of things...

I trust you don't think I am mad at WOTC for making money. I am not; it is their legal OBLIGATION to make money for their shareholders. I am fine with WOTC making money. I have a problem with people throwing their money at WOTC for reasons I can't quite comprehend. But I am getting there.

Ok, you like new stuff, because it's new. I can see that.

The trouble is, you never know when "all else [is] equal." Is there anything more depressing than a blind optimist, striding confidently into doom? I am thinking of those poor early Western explorers who packed up their bags, set out for Kansas, and (in the fact of their own inexperience and...

Ok I can see this; you feel like your house rules are being "justified" in a way by reflecting, in advance, 4e. I guess I can understand that sort of satisfaction; it makes you feel like your own game is linked into the designers, in a way.

Are we past the point where superficially clever retorts are used to dismiss actual debate? No? Oh well.

Is it just me, or is anyone else out there a little perplexed by the wild excitement of the MerricB's on this board? WOTC wants to make more money. That's their job; they make money. As a company, that's is their goal. Fine. To do this, they have decided to release 4E. As gamers, and...

Good point. Obviously, all this version 4 stuff leaves me... nowhere. I really don't care. I'm going to keep doing what I've been doing all these years. Free and fun. How can you beat that?

C'mon everyone. Confess. I can't be the only one. I've been in two long-running campaigns. GM'd for two more. Had a number of small one-off adventures. And I never bought a single WOTC book. Never bought a D&D book from a 3rd party. Never bought a miniature. Never bought dice (used ones...

errrr I'm not going to restate the obvious (at length). Both haste 3.0 and WRT allow casters to pump out two or more spells a round. Haste 3.0 was thoroughly nerfed because this was egregiously too powerful. If you can't see the parallel (anything allowing casters to cast 2+ spells a...

We have done this already This is an old, old, old debate. All I can say is the designers of D&D, many savvy players, and many unsavvy players all agreed that letting spellcasters get off 2 spells in a round (trivially) is a really bad thing. Really bad. Haste 3.0 was house-ruled by many...

Silence Easy solution. Just ready the "silence" spell; it will stop 99% of all spells cast your way. The trick, of course, is to get the spell on your spell list. "I cast silence when an enemy starts to cast a spell." That does it. Center the silence spell "at a point in space" whose...

Thus rating your time in transit at about $2/hour? Why bother wasting time to save a piddly $5? Unless that's all your time is worth, I suppose.

That's all true. But if your enemy closes their eyes, it upgrades your Mirror Image spell to Improved Invisibility - to some extent. I'm quite happy with that. The images will only go down in 2 rounds if something is full attacking with 3+ attacks. Obviously, if your wizard is in melee...

boring but brutally effective This is a little boring - but very effective. Cast Mirror Image at the start of any dangerous conflict. Or even when you suspect it (reasonably long duration). EVERY TIME. You will be essentially immune from targeted spells, and immune to arrow/melee damage for...

Oh I know, it CAN be fun. But is it fun for the whole group? Basically, combat is something all the PC's in your group can do to some extent. When the GM throws a monster your way, you can all participate in overcoming the challenge. They all get some satisfaction in the result. When you...

It's just no fun when a PC is totally helpless when combat rolls around, because that is the core of the D&D XP system. A skill monkey bard with no spells would be pretty hard pressed to survive in combat as anything other than a 3rd rate archer. I'd like to make the skill monkey bard qualify...

That's a good point. If it's combat, full BAB + Martial Weapons is an easy fix. If it's skills... give them 10/level, allow taking 10...throw them a combat bone of some sort... Party support? Just increase all the normal bardic abilities a good bit.

The trouble is that skills often...well... they are not that powerful. Even if you have high skill values... you need to have the chance to use the skill, which might not happen often. Typically, level 3+ spells are much more powerful and duplicate the abilities of a high level of skill. Hide...

Oh I am not testy; I just don't know what standard actions you could add in normal D&D which would replace spellcasting but burn up actions. I was more thinking aloud than attempting to bust you.