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Whether or not a given PC drops is indeed a significant mechanical impact. But also whether or not the PCs defeated the enemy and got their loot. And also what options remained to the PCs when the last bad guy ran out of hit points. If you're a fighter down to his last Death From Above for the...

Depends on the level, but overall, the only measuring stick I want is to keep the overall power level of casters more or less on-par with that of non-casters. I don't mean that I want them to be absolutely identical in every way, but I also dislike the idea of high-level non-casters being forced...

I have both read and understand what you're saying, RC. However, you have not seemed to understand what I've been trying to communicate. Your claim is that the mechanical threshold of significance for determining whether or not an encounter is relevant (in a mechanical sense) is whether or not...

Very well-put. I think that captured very well what I meant when trying to describe the tactical options available to players on a round-by-round basis.

I'd be much happier if monsters were using the same rules PCs are using. I really would. Heck, WotC would make me squeal with delight and make it so the broad monster types are classes, and then each "race" of monsters just adds new talents to the tree. I'd love something like that to no end...

I wish they were going in this direction. I really do. But they won't. I wouldn't be surprised if the next version of Unearthed Arcana has rules for the three-class system (warrior, expert, mage) alongside the four-class system (leader, striker, defender, controller), and explains how something...

One of our divides. Designers cannot reliably make those choices meaningful because they can't assume and design around multiple encounters that might not happen... their time would be better spent designing making that one garunteed encounter the best it can be. My appologies. I am perfectly...

I was mad at first. I didn't like having 4e sprung on me after months of, "No, we're not working on it! Honest!" Then I was cautiously optimistic. Maybe I'll like it. Mearls is there, and he's a guy I can trust with my gaming dollar, usually. I took a few steps back with some of the numbers...

That it's going to fall short of being a great game because it tries to hold onto the wrong D&Disms.

Actually, the only thing that prevents a player from "going nova" is to partition resources in such a way that players don't have access to them "earlier" than they should, so you can't go nova in encounter 1 by stealing resources that the designers assumed wouldn't be spent until encounters 2...

Yes we will. Not enough information for anything definitive. I'm saying that under the current per-day system, the game rewards players who know how to tip the scales towards their spellcasters by limiting themselves to the smallest number of encounters in a row possible, so that they can...

I sincerely doubt that 3 is being completely removed from the game. Rather, from what I've read, certain healing abilities are integrated with certain classes in such a way that the character's first role is no longer one of support/the walking band-aid. Ah, but that's not what seems to be...

Thanks. I think you raise a good point as well on the expenditure of resources, specifically that some powerful abilities (especially the likes teleport) simply do not make sense if they're used at the beginning of all but the most dangerous of encounters. On the issue of nova-ing in...

You haven't shown this, RC. In fact, all you've really done is to use circular logic to argue that: 1. Mechanical thresholds of significance are only measurable by how one encounter's resource expenditure informs the next encounter in the day's outcome. 2. Per-day resource attrition is the...

They are absolutely less predictable. In M&M, I ran one session where one day in-game included the following encounters for a group with a PL of 10: - 1 PL 7 encounter against a Nullock Drone - 1 PL 10 encounter against a Nullock Destroyer and a squad of Drones - 1 PL 12 encounter against a...

Honestly, I think the best answer takes ideas from both extremes. Named bonuses would only really coming from gear (and considering that it sounds like the Big 6 are going away, this won't be nearly as extreme as it was in 3.X, with the plethora of options Merric outlined above). So if armor...

Yep. Sorry. Med student, not economics major here. All I knew was that according to the report, M&M was selling really well, so I felt the need to point it out. That wouldn't be a bad system at all. Personally, I think my ideal would be to build off of Psionic Focus and its relationship with...

#2 only to Dungeons & Dragons, actually. And if you look at the top 5 selling RPGs in the second quarter, only one of them features per-day resource attrition. In fact, only D&D bucks this trend. Does D&D's place at the top have anything to do with the almost-universal correlation most of the...

If no actual obstacles were posted in pemerton's statements, then why did you feel compelled to post the work-arounds in you posted #1010 with the encounters providing you with the resources needed to overcome attrition and sally forth? Or are these actually obstacles, but ones that "halfway...

Mutants & Masterminds 2E is oh-so-close to getting my vote, but it takes two books before it's truly outstanding (the core rules and Ultimate Power).