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So, what is a 4e style class? Is it about picking powers? Is it about powers with different cooldowns? Is it about complex action economy? Is it about status effects and forced movements?

It's more intricate than the OP explains. Not only do many groups not play with XP, in many groups only the GM plays with XP. Think about it, if the GM calculates when a level increase comes up, from the players' perspective, the game effectively does not use XP. For a a game to legitimitely...

I had that problems a few months ago with the game Itras By. It's a steamfantasy world in a city rules by a giant spider with all kinds of crazy happening. The introductory adventure in the book strangely is a mystery story about a haunted house. I didn't get in the mood at all because why...

Weapon powers might have worked. They just weren't willing to go all the way. Legends of the Wulin does it, but there are only 8 types of weapons on the list (Sword, Heavy, Spear, Flexible, Ranged, Paired, Unarmed), with the options of buying special proficiency to combine the effects of two...

I'm not sure the issue at hand has to do with either perspective or turn order. it's about placement. In D&D you trace where every character is on a map. You are looking at engagements. The question is: Who are you fighting? YouYou saysay itit yourselfyourself. Character B prevents 3 from...

Doesn't matter either way. What I want is a STR roll on run action to determine distance, such that you can actually have a race per the rules.

Now I expect a blog "Wizard employees looking at things".

It's not that you don't have to redesign the adventure. You might use the same monster for longer ranges but then you need more of it because HP and damage rise.

Not really. It's not that different from former editions for the most part. You might want to point out how spell preparation works. Also several spells were changed.

The paladin in our group loves it. I find it fun as well.

Question about the adventures that were delivred with the playtests were not asked.

The OP's distinction is meaningful. I would usually use word method or technique but whatever. A tool or technique therefore is something you do during play to achieve a certain end. A tool becomes a rule when you always employ it under certain conditions. That is a very interesting take on...

A check list of things that you absolutely positively have to determine, discuss and make transparent to everyone involved, before the game starts.

In fact, they are pretty much alike. With a car engine you might look for speed, cost, maintenance, exhaust fuels and a number of other things. And depending how you value each of these parts you will come to different conclusions what makes a good engine. Frankly, that's not what I paid...

The problem is the very old notion of people thinking themselves better than others.

Depends. If you have easy access to wands and scrolls, good for you. If you don't, you don't. The problem is that in this case the GM provides both the challenge (unsneakable opponent) and the solution (wand). Unlike a wizard facing devils you cannot just choose not to prepare lightning spells...

Neither is correct. You need to be good compared to whatever the GM considers to be an appropriate antagonist. And D&D does a very bad job in helping the GM determine that.

While I readily concede that there are two approaches to pregame, I'd argue that mearls misrepresents one of them. These two approaches are not only applicable two chargen, but probably any act of game preparation. The first approach is what Mike calls the browser. The other approach can be...

Yes. We decided there should be only two known sentient races on the PC's homeworld. One player really wanted the Elven Weapon Proficiency, the others opted for Shifters as the second class citizens to the world. Solution was rather simple. We took Wood Elf, ripped out Trance for 1d3...

I don't understand. They are not actively promoting damage spells. They limited all casting compared to 3.x by reducing spell slots and removing scaling by caster level. The latter especially hurts damage spells. Buffs on the other hand are limited by concentration. This I enjoy very much...