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Oh yeah, totally. You're not experiencing it, so that means the problem doesn't exist for someone else!

Why, yes, I do find it more complicated to handle bonuses that change round-to-round over the complication of having effects that last multiple rounds. One might even call these rapidly-changing bonii... fiddly bits. *cue dramatic music*

It's not an edition war. It's an attempt to engage what you are saying. I don't play 4e because I perceive it as only supporting a "kick in the door, kill things and take their stuff" approach to the game. From your perspective, whether or not 4e supports styles other than that at this moment...

This attitude is why I don't care for the new edition. Some folks play this way, and that's fine - it should be a supported approach to the game. But if I want to play that way, I'll go play WoW.

Attempting to fight fire with fire is foolish, especially when you bring a zippo and your opponent has a flamethrower (okay, I don't think that's how that saying is supposed to work, but it was a fun visual). There are things at which tabletop RPGs can excel that MMOs can't do, and won't be...

I don't know if the D&D name will ever be able to be freed of that stigma.

Horses - or any other kind of mount - generally don't. They can, but this is generally a function of the caster rolling poorly for damage; in such a case, the fireball isn't very... fiery. D&D does a pretty poor job of indicating a caster's ability with a particular spell; spell knowledge and...

If that works for you, fine. For some of us, we require more explanation than that.

Remember that the player has a vision of how their character is and thinks and in what ways s/he is capable; so long as that vision is backed up by numbers, then at least do something to acknowledge that the character has a skillset that the player may lack; be it giving them a hint or - heaven...

You may want to do something about the HP system in 4e, as well, as the whole "regain all your hp" after a rest is somewhat ridiculous. Healing surges don't seem to break versimilitude all that badly, though, depending on how you interpret them and how they interact with the HP system; perhaps...

Yep.

Oh yes, because clearly that's all a game is going to consist. Your hyperbole sucks, and so does your position. Just because there is a story going on does not mean that everything needs to cater to it, not everything needs to be relevant to it. Multiple stories can go on, and there can be...

Not everything needs to serve a freaking "story." Since when the hell did playing in a setting where things happen that don't make the PCs believe the world revolves around them become such a bad thing? I like the idea of things happening that don't involve my PC. I like the idea of things...

Right, but it's still just kinda strange.

Really? My group would mutiny the second I suggested that they were going to do something, and their only choice was to how to go about it. I'm not knocking your style - if it works for you, keep with it - I'm just surprised that there are groups out there that take that kind of thing in...

After checking out the other two categories, I can see why they would put it on the non-fiction list... but I'm still pretty sure that I'd give someone a strange look if they described the PH as such.

The topic was presented as, "Hey, I heard/read this, is it true?," not as, "Hey, I heard/read this, it must be true!" The latter might be worthy of ridicule; the former is most certainly not.

Apology accepted. As a note, I'm ridiculously defensive when it comes to my particular approach to gaming, although part of that is the atmosphere of EN World in the past seven months or so. I'll try not to interpret everything you say as hostile. Having many makes PC interaction with the...

Wow, yeah, thanks for being condescending. Or, you know, I modified the hell out of the game system to suit the world. No, I refuse to do this. I don't see how this is at all relevant, but sure, whatever you say. That you and a few others around here seem to think that I'm crazy and...

My setting existed for seven years before a single game was played in it. It has no purpose other than to exist in my head. Is it useful for other things? Yes. But in the end, its purpose is to exist. How do you know if they can or cannot? And how is this relevant? So you think it's not...