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Then what sort of information would you need to know? Because the events in the encounter included actions which were of mechanical interest, clearly. On every single round, the characters made meaningful choices which impacted (in some cases positively, in some cases negatively) the outcome of...

Wizards are more powerful than fighters now. I'm not sure how this is relevant to the conversation. Gizmo asked: Emphasis mine. I'm hoping someone will soon answer me and tell my how this encounter was of no "mechanical significance".

I dunno. Is it going to make it easier for my dwarf fighter to meet new and interesting creatures, kill them, take their stuff, and then spend it on ale and whores? Will I be able to pass a giant barrel of cheese puffs around the table and throw them at the DM when he rips off of a movie we've...

One can be a martial combat machine and the other can be something else. Like an arcane controller ;) EDIT: But seriously, so long as people can do something meaningful and role-appropriate during an enecounter and do so while balanced with one another, then s'allgood. And since you seem to...

You're sliding down the slippery-slope, RC. "Balanced" doesn't mean "identical". My M&M group is case-in-point of this. We have: - A psychic ninja who absolutely excells in one-on-one encounters against weak-minded foes. - A radiation controller who can control her own mass who is the most...

Absolutely dead-freaking, quoted-for-truth, and thumbsed-up just for emphasis.

Also by far one of my favorites from 3.Xe or any edition, really.

I hope you didn't get any of that on your character sheets... it makes the ink run and look all messy, and my hat of messy character sheets knows no bounds.

And I submit, respectfully, that I just did in the post I just made. I'll post it again.

Honestly, RC, the reason I stopped replying to this thread was questions like this. I thought I made it quite clear that you can still have an interesting, exciting encounter where the primary measure of importance isn't the resources which are expended/lost. You suggest otherwise. There is a...

If I ever do, I'll let you know ;)

I ran a game like this, where psionics were used in place of magic wholesale. Most races were "human", but there were lots of different human subraces. It was a sort of stalled Age of Exploration, where colonists from two great empires were being forced to coexist with the formerly subjugated...

Most of my group will hear "Mordenkainen", Bigby", "Vecna", "Llolth", etc. and a little bell will go off. "Oh, isn't that some person some spells are named after?" or "Oh, the guy who the eye and hand came from!" or "Isn't she like a spider-monster?" These things people have heard of. The...

I like half of the Iron Heroes fix (if you take something other than a melee attack action while in a threatened area). The movement one I think is covered best by treating threatened areas as difficult terrain. If you move through it at half speed, you're "moving defensively" and don't draw an...

My old face-to-face group has two mac users, but since they don't game online, no worries. My current online group is 100% PC, and we'd kill for a good virtual tabletop (even if we likely wouldn't be playing D&D on it).

My ideal would keep the current creature types as broadly-defined monster "races". Then each individual monster would be akin to a (usually linear) talent tree that a monster would progress along in one of the roles defined in Dugeonscape (and apparently as part of 4e). Just apply a challenge...

Dead on. I never wanted to play a halfling before 3e (because I didn't want to be a walking punch-line). 3.Xe halflings are a fantastic blend of the old hobbit-y ideals (comfort, family, etc.) put into a very interesting package (wandering gypsy-rogues). Hobbits are fine for Middle Earth, but...

That is indeed a relatively accurate summary of the nova player's point of view. In my experience, this is the main cause of PC resting. Most players are paranoid about expending resources which they percieve as critically limited. For example, if you can only use one 5th level spell, most...

I think that very much depends on what your threshold for fatigue is. For most groups, they'll rest after their bread and butter resources are running low (cure criticals, mid-level spells, etc.). If your bread and butter resources are per-encounter, and only your big guns are per-day, then the...

And I'm more than willing to dump that system in exchange for one that allows for more freedom of pacing and gaming. There is plenty of significance which can be assigned to an encounter within the context of the world itself if the PCs' victory/defeat has an impact on the rest of the world, as...