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Ha! Yes! A thousand times I agree with you! I noticed this playing Scrabble with my wife on Monday. We got a little too clever with linking words and ended up playing a few short words in a row, and got ourselves in a couple pickles where we were really constrained about what we could spell...

Considering one of your criteria was "to develop fun and viable characters without massive work", I'd say 4e edges ahead, but it depends on how high you are going to play. Lower level 3.5 is not too bad, but once you start looking at PrC requirements and a ballooning number of spells per day...

. . .and we come to the root of the problem. You cannot comprehend anyone disagreeing with you. You do not see how you could be wrong. This is fine for you, but for everyone beating their head against a wall trying to explain it, it stinks. After taking a few days away from the thread to...

I actually think Sharpshooter is the best Archer Ranger PP out there, and it does not require you to choose that build at character creation. So you have an option, at least. Jay

That is *a lot* of house rules. Too many, in fact. Were I in your game, I would prefer you pick like, your favorite 10 and let the rest go. I appreciate your desire to rebalance the game, and a lot of your logic is sound, but the glut of it is just overwhelming. Jay Edit: And I did read...

How about magic item advice? The cloak of distortion is still really good for you, even after the nerf. You should usually be far enough away for it to kick in. Jay

The assumption that just because this generation does something new/different and therefore they are deficient is not a new one. Kids today are surrounded by sources of inspiration and mental stimulation. Just because this is not the same type as their parents doesn't mean that they have less...

The feat has no flavor text. A feat is all crunch, the player provides the flavor text. If your cleric can't justify why he took a feat that fundamentally alters his combat abilities, maybe he should play a more simple class, like a bow ranger. I think getting stuck on the 'one true...

Cross - It is *somewhat* justified. Perhaps you could just have your players run any non-core choices by you? That might be a bit too much work, but at least it opens things up a little bit. Of course, there is absolutely nothing wrong with running a PHB only game, if everyone is on the same...

Saying there won't be new races becaues all the tropes have been covered is like saying there won't be new classes because the tropes have been covered. We already have stabby guys and magic guys, what do we need with more of that? Another ranged character? Jeez guys! </sarcasm> The more...

I know that hearing 'a wizard did it' is tiresome, but really. . .that is the explanation. It is magic. Divine magic. Your PC takes a feat. That feat is an expression of a skill or ability that they are developing. In this case, the skill is Healing. The exact mechanics for how they are...

Buried in that excellent post is yet another point I agree with. Just because a power might be used on the round it recharges, doesn't mean it will be used. Powers have situational uses, sometimes the monster will be better served waiting for the party to change position so it can get more of...

Of course that is your opinion, but history is filled with examples of people with dissimilar goals and values working and living together. One example that springs to mind is embedded Journalists with soldiers at war. They are not fighters, and many may not be comfortable with killing, yet...

huh. I have no idea how I missed that. Thanks! Jay

I agree with Dracosuave *and* Jhaelen. In the case of Interrupts or Free actions, this also gives the monster an entire round of extra time to use those. I'm not sure that will make a difference, ever. I'm also not sure that a round of knowing what power to use will make a difference, and...

Since the whole HP/damage/bloodied part of the game is an abstraction, you can do this however you please. Perhaps your pacifist cleric never does any physical damage. His prayers that do HP damage are just that, prayers. Invocations. Pleadings to his God to aid his allies and show his...

What about for the purposes of enchantments? Could you make a Distance Throwing Hammer, for example? Javelins have some cool interactions with enchantments working with melee and ranged, both. I haven't checked to see what CB allows, but I remember when building a Dwarven Ranger a lot...

The Dragons of Iomedra (or whatever it is called) campaign by Chris Perkins over at Wizards has a few ships up. Stangely, they seem to be marked as wizards' property, even though it seems like the project is a personal one by him. In any case, for personal use at least, I'm sure you could snag...

What sucks though, is that a lot of the support for those other damage types are not in the PHB. And the cold damage cheese only matures at Paragon. If you want to exploit it, you can retrain a feat at tenth, and your at will at eleventh, and boom, you did it. For the first ten levels though...

I did (and do, in parts) enjoy this thread. Game theory and design is something I enjoy reading about. I don't pretend to be a rules lawyer or designer, so I generally stay out. I post if I feel my gut feeling is helpful. In this case, my gut feeling is that you and some others decided that...