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I like the idea and can see it being used by many who wish for this style of play, but like others have said, it should definately be a modular option and not be part of the simple core of the game.

While the discussion in this thread is of general interest (reactions out of turn - which should be a modular option, not the default, IMO), I don't see what it has to do with spellcasters being creative?

I agree. To me the whole point of the "dial" was to have it be modular. You could change the dial/module depending on your preference. Again, agreed. I was talking about this after reevaluating it for myself, I think (just wasn't really putting it in words very well). The whole gentle/harsh...

I just had a mental image of two spellcasters playing a tennis match by continually throwing a fireball back and forth. :P I think either way can work. Either have it take up one of your spell slots to reflect the spell back, or have it be free and potentially get D&D Wimbledon if that's your...

I'll agree that there's a difference between the two outlooks, but I think both are unreasonable. You see, the way you put it, it assumes they have put in a certain amount of time in mind for the entire process, and they would have to take design time away from something else to make this work...

Crazy Jerome: Yeah, sorry, I guess you're right. This is one of the things I really feel they (WotC) should grow some backbone and actually do what they set out to do, and make it modular. I understand that dividing the classes up like that would keep some of the potential rage down, but...

Personally, I'm not sure making Counterspell something that takes up a spell slot in and of itself is a very good idea. So some alternative way of doing it would be my prefered approach. Crazy Jerome: Couldn't exp you, so I'll just say you've got some pretty cool ideas there. Makes for some...

It would still be D&D, because you can still have the Wizard be Vancian if that is what you want. What would be the difference between the Wizard and the Mage, besides one being Vancian-only, and the other having freedom of choice? If they are otherwise equal, why make them two different...

And that is a problem with the Wizard's class design. Let's say I'd want to play the Wizard concept, but using the Cleric's spellcasting system (they're pretty similar, but I'm just using what we have, here). If I'd just need to take the Cleric and call it a Wizard to make it work, the following...

Ah yeah, sorry about that, kinda jumped you into my analogy there ^^ Yeah, in my opinion (and I think, seeing Kamikaze Midget's post just now, I diverge from the thread), first and foremost, there should simply be HP (we are going to eat HP). It goes down once you take damage (narrated in...

Alright, so the "You" here is pemerton and the issues he has with Kamikaze Midget's proposal, and I am the "Friend" who continues on talking to him about it like there is no issue? Something in that direction? I'll accept that I'm probably missing something that pemerton is saying that makes...

The link to the survey was emailed, yes. So that would be why you didn't get it. Not that I had much more luck with it.. The server stopped responding while I was in the middle of filling out the survey. When it started working again, it said I had already filled out the survey when I tried to...

And I'm saying that if you use one extreme of the dial, you have exactly that. You have your one pool, which can be narrated as whatever you please. That's the point I was trying to get across when I was trying to (unsuccesfully, it seems) throw away previous terminology. The only thing that...

Crazy Jerome: The chicken and pork being those two is as far as I got, the rest didn't make sense to me in regard to the thread. Anyway, with regards to determining how you want to have "you have HP" work in your game, it would be covered. Determining the 'non-HP related' bits of your game's...

Crazy Jerome: ..I think Is should say I'm glad I don't like pork o_o" Not sure what all of that has to do with the conversation. I was trying to see some analogy with the chicken being one thing and the pork being something else being discussed, but then the entire "order today, get it...

An interesting idea, and certainly not for everyone (myself including, I think). Could it be made to work somewhat like.. You combine levels 1 and 2 (and call it level 1), then once you have enough exp for level 3, you gain the following two levels worth of abilities (called level 2). At the...

Just an addition after reading the part of your post where you reply to Kamikaze Midget's.. This, what you said right there, is no different from what we are suggesting, as far as I can tell. Why does it have to have a uniform recovery rate? And which recovery rate would that be? Pre-4e style...

I'm not entirely sure, but I suspect there is some misunderstanding here. The part you quoted wasn't "the second method" I was refering to (note the "say we have third way" at the beginning of the part you quoted, [edit] that needed to have an "a" inbetween there, whoops ^^). So I wasn't...

While this may work for some people, it has some inherent problems. If I want to play a non-vancian Wizard, I shouldn't be forced to accept the inherent class features of other classes, while also being forced into a specific background and theme to put more salt on the wound. Also, there are...

I can imagine many things that are required for the utmost basic core of the game to be kept so vague and general that it doesn't need to have a very specific way of being handled. As I just recently replied to Kamikaze Midget's HP thread, it's still on my mind, so I'll take an example from...