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I kind of think this is the point. Since it's a utility power, it's not really meant to be useful in every combat like the strict encounter/daily powers. Archer's Glory is there to give you an action point when you're out of action points. Just because you can use it every encounter doesn't mean...

Eh, I'd be annoyed, and probably loudly. Pushing, pulling, and sliding are part of the tactics of the battle, and pushing, pulling, and sliding into terrain to do damage is part of the game. Like Cloud of Daggers "Effect: The power’s area is filled with sharp daggers of force. Any creature...

This is exactly it. Just because an NPC has a magic threshhold of +2 doesn't mean it's carrying a +2 weapon and wearing all +2 armor. What it means is that the NPC or monster is less competent with a +3 magic item than a PC would be with the same magical weapon.

I don't see where it assumes monsters have magical equipment. It assumes they have a competence level commensurate to their level of menace, sure, but I don't see how it assumes they're using magic items. You're making a literal reading into a general abstraction made for game balance. Having a...

Yeah, but that's not what he's arguing, apparently. He's arguing that the world is now full of magic items that the NPCs are using and the PCs can't take, which is patently false and based on an incorrect understanding of how the system is supposed to work. It is his understanding that if he...

Ahh, it's much clearer now that you simply have failed to understand how the parcel system works. And monster design in 4e really makes a +5 longsword on a powerful foe of high level fairly useless anyway, so there's less of a reason for him to have one. The thing you're missing isn't that...

You might be on to something, actually. There's probably a reason I abhor White Wolf games and spent so much money on reaper, games workshop, and Anima products. But I fail to see how giving out sub-par loot in a game that makes a core assumption that players have optimal loot as part of the...

I think the real problem is your cat needs a special treat from softpaws.com. I wonder if all 4th edition housecats now have softpaws, explaining their far less lethal nature.

I think our disagreement is mostly semantic anyway, and while I love to argue semantics, I think we're both basically saying "Playing warcraft too much takes away from time and effort you could be using to do something else entirely," just in different ways. And it does have a social force...

Verisimilitude is over-rated. I always thought it was kind of funny that you could get gil from a wolf in Final Fantasy, but there has to be some level of abstraction. If you're just giving out trash items as a reward with the expectation players are going to sell them, what's the point? I kind...

I'd like to see replays like the Japanese gaming magazines print.

I don't think what you're describing is the game actually having an effect on your imagination and creativity. I think you're describing it being an incredible timesink. The problem there is unlike other video games, online RPGs essentially assign you busywork inbetween bouts of excitement...

Then the idea of iconic characters is a poor idea. "Here are some bland, generic characters. You'll be seeing them all the time, but they'll never be doing anything interesting." There's a reason Star Trek was about Captain Kirk and Spock and Dr McCoy et al. and not about Ensign Ricky. Star...

Since D&D combat derives from games like Warhammer, along with Disgaea and Final Fantasy Tactics... people are going to die if you use every ability at your disposal as DM. Well, not die, but get knocked out of combat. Of course, if the players are particularly tactically adept, they can make...

I have an opinion on the iconics in general. I don't care about them. This is a bad thing if you're a publisher. You know who I care about? Elminster, Drizzt, Alias and Dragonbait, Tenser, Bigby, Mordenkainen, Tasha, and so on. If you want to have iconic characters in your product's artwork...

I know Vin Diesel has a multi-racial background, but he's always looks exceptionally white to me. Like he could have been on Friends he looks so white.

Let me try to summarize my point in a better way. Classes are the archetypes. Different genres have different archetypes. It's virtually impossible to have enough archetypes to cover every kind of game, so classes, IMHO, only work when they're tied to a specific type of game.

World of Darkness isn't classless. The various splats might as well be classes, only they're slightly more restrictive, since they define personality as well as abilities. And I don't think classes are bad in a modern setting. I love Shadowrun, for example. I don't think classes work in a...

Untrue. I've had a few issues with products I bought at Amazon. For instance, i got one of the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows books with missing/double printed pages. I thought it was better me who could download a pdf to read the missing chapter in about 5 minutes than some 8 year old kid...

I think it depends on the enemy. Hobgoblins and trolls will give you the business end of an axe in your head, Drow and Illithid will just make you wish they had.