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Because as an ultimate archer class, the dragon flying around is much less of a tactical penalty to him than it is to the rogue an almost pure melee class. That is my only guess. I would of given archer powers that inhibit movement fairly early on. Even if a single bow IRL can't do it as...

I like a lot of 4e D&D as a DM and I think I'd like a lot as a player. It has a quick and clean resolution mechanic. I love the encounter design. It is balanced. I love the concept of rituals though i think costs and times to cast need a lot of work. Still it has been grindy in many of the...

Totally agree. I think it is a kind of cool image for someone to keep dropping a crossbow and pulling another one out, it is not unbalanced, so let it happen, heck encourage it.

Not only that but when the changes are large enough, its not an improvement on a past game its just a first edition of a new game. I look at 4e shadowrun and its a great 1st edition game but it is deeply flawed. So game theory evolved, they learned things form past games but by making a...

I'm cool with the heroic tier power, but the paragon tier and epic tier seem kind of lackluster to me. once i am wrastlin full grown dragons etc. i want my fighters running across water and smashing through walls.

The problem is lots of times when people say fighter its because they want to play a defender style character with a bow, They do not want to play a striker. I am lucking out in that none of my players came to the game wanting to play something, they read the PH and said I will play that. It...

I agree. 3e maybe dropped the ball on this one with powerful effects like wail of the banshee and a save that got harder to resist as you leveled, but cutting out this kind of game play entirely is a flaw in my eyes. Give multiple saves like the beholders petrification ray, a little play...

You're welcome. A good idea, is a good idea, i was too lazy to track down who it came from though. It does seem to be something that is missing in this system, the feeling that you are improving at an ability you trained at. You stay the same at the abilities you know, and you learn some new...

People complain about a lot of things. The martial powers in this game don't seem remotely superheroic to me. They are bland and boring with bigger numbers as i advance. I'd rather have no powers and a totally down to earth feel, than bland powers that slowly get bigger numbers. If you...

After running 4e for a bit now, I want to go with fantasy hero. I have a lot of the same issues as the OP and when i play it I get this feeling that says, it is a miniatures game with role playing. Though the one player who did not want to play is having a blast and says, this is awesome its a...

1. more rituals, and less ridiculously expensive. 2. bring back the lost magic, summing, necromancy, and some save or dies.(does not have to be a single save to die, does not have to actually be a save can be like power word kill with a HP comparison) 3. get rid of per encounter/dailies or...

The prep time thing, I don't ge :):):). I'm not spending less time prepping for 4e than any other system. Most of my prep time involves the story,which is system irrelevant. Balancing the encounters etc. I do the same in 4e as i do in every game. I sketch out outline mobs and detail only...

not my favorite system, but it is doing a decent job.

I found this totally true in 3e. I have not GMd 4e into the high levels so I do not know how it pans out. I guess since healing surges are not really getting more numerous, the number of encounters wont really grow much. So it will be what it is like at the low levels, which so far has been a...

I've never had a short adventuring day problem in any edition of D&D. But at the low levels I can create a series of bigger encounters than i ever would in previous editions. In all other previous editions I'd normally plan multiple fairly easy encounters with maybe one tough one for the...

No they don't. A crappy effect is a crappy effect. A bit of versatility is neat, but since this is a team game mimicking another classes at will to crappy effect for lots of cash is just a dumb option. It is total weak sauce and it is not worth taking compared to the PH feats, this may be the...

you should get what you pay for. If you are dropping large wads of cash on a one shot item it should beat out your at will powers.

Since I don't think it will effect balance, i think people should feel free to change things as they like here. I happen to think really long ritual cast times are just lame. It is just a taste thing, and really long rituals just feel like hokey bad B movie stuff to me, and do not fit how I...

Having not purchased it, I can only say that is the general idea of what I mean. But I do not know if any specific item in the adventurers vault would actually be abusive.

I suspect that when it was open ended it was a source of possible exploits. Nothing in the core maybe, but you never know when you will add something in a supplement that just sucks to be able to be summoned. I don't think it would be possible, but something like you put the materials on and...