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"Not long....We were recently dropped on yonder beach." He waves back toward the south. "Again I ask, what do you here? And who are your companions, the other man and the dwarf?"

I agree with your first sentence, but question how you got from there to your second sentence. Unless there is some non-arbitrary reason to expect four encounters in an adventuring day, how is selecting that particular number anything other than arbitrary? (I would say it was arbitrary in 3e...

The man grins -- you can see his teeth flash in his thick black beard. "I am called Le Loup. And these, my men" -- he indicates the three in leather armour -- "you may know as Mather, Tomkin, and Robert." Mather is the bald one, Tomkin blond, and Robert ginger.

In my experience, players are a canny bunch. They tend to learn early on what a system rewards, and what it does not. If a combination of the rules and expected usage make the 15-minute workday the best option, players will learn to make use of that option. I think this thread is going to run...

Conceptually, I am not, but I do not like the way HS was actualized in 4e. Begs the question, "shorter than what?" If you have resource X, and you require 1X per encounter, in the case XY (where Y indicates the amount of X you have per game day), Y determines the number of encounters you can...

Assuming everyone has had a chance for input if they want it. The other group moves along the road, become aware of your party about 300 yards away. They are visibly startled at first -- the men in studded leather step forward, going for their swords -- but then the shaggy man with the...

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Well posted. You are certainly more patient than I. RC

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+1.

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Can a kobold shift while you are watching him closely? Can a kobold shift when the lights are on?

I agree with your points (1) and (2); I disagree about your point (3). If you reworded your point (3) to say, instead, 3) If you have predetermined that the PCs may not die then you need to have a mechanic or role-playing device to overcome bad luck and/or the effects of poor choices. I could...

This. With the caveat that, depending upon your personal tastes, this isn't necessarily a problem, for you. RC

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In 4e, yes. Originally, hit meant that you hit, even if all the damage done wasn't physical. I just went to the trouble to put the usual quote pulls back into their full context in another thread you were participating in. I can easily cut & paste it here if you forget. RC

No. And, honestly, neither have you. You just side-stepped around it. In a game where terms do not need to mean what they mean in normal parlance, why would the GM assume that normal parlance need apply? If PC powers work regardless of whether or not the description makes sense in context...

Sorry, but it is a rational position to say that A can exist, but B can mitigate. That is not at all the same thing as saying a thing is both A and not-A. I agree that you can get a character death with one failed saving throw. I do not agree that getting to that point -- in any game I would...