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And here is where I ask are more people going to come to D&D because of Indiana Jones and comic book movies (Batman, Spider-Man, The Watchmen :(), or WOW and the like? Where new players come from will color their impressions of healing surges.

D&D never had people stand around for 5 minutes and be back up to full health.

I don't see any lack of accuracy in the representation of 4e ability score generation in his sig. To me it is an absurdist response to what I feel is a bad attempt at balance. TDD may have something different to say but here again is my take. When the first method for generating ability scores...

My copy of WHFRG 2e is due in this week... I have a Human Rat Catcher ready to go. When was the last time I looked forward to playing a rat catcher? Not while playing D&D that's for sure, though I did like having a small group of 1st-level characters ready to take the place of any that fell.

I think the pre-4e editions got it right. 4e is a fine game though too far removed from my 20+ years of play. It did prompt me to look at other systems to try and return to my preferred style of gaming. I ordered Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and it should arrive any day now.

I don't mean to speak for thedungeondelver but I can say that the ability score generation in the PH 3.0e and 3.5e is fine. 4d6 drop thew lowest and arrange as desired. If the player wishes to point buy, then take 25 points and run with it. You'll be stuck with something like the standard array...

With respect, when D&D goes from 3d6 in order, to three methods of which random generation is only one and the DM has the ability to change your scores generated to match his campaign preferences, D&D has dropped any thought of allowing true random generation. This in the name of game balance...

I can't believe it took 57 responses to get to Diplomacy. I guess I just play games with pricks :)

Thank you Krypter for the necro. I was never aware that Wizards had something like this on their site. Time for me to go read. :)

They say that you cannot transfer your access code so no you cannot get it used. Probably because they seem to make the most of the money from selling the game in stores and online. I don't know about WOW but GW beats out DDO without a doubt. GW has an up front buy-in but after that it is free...

Quoted for teh funny and an XP for you. :D

So for another $30 I can have them. Sorry we've all been down this road before.

Yeah henchmen suck. Does Gwen ever grow up?

That's right because no one can rationally decide what game system fits their style. Logic has no place in making choices. :hmm: I think the emotional responses come in response to condescending attitudes both for and against change.

I guess I'm part of those 18 and I expect that if WOTC is going to take away most of the non-combat info from the monsters, then they could at least keep in the same amount of monsters that 3e had. BTW those listed by Aeolius are in the 3.5 MM niche or not. Food for thought 3.5e 418 seperate...

If this poll had asked about purchases since 4e came out, my responses would have been different.

If it counts, I played in KOTS FTL. My immediate problems where constant tracking of status effects and marking; using rainbow colored sets of poker chips and the like seem too much like those war games with chits from 20 years ago. Like others have said previously, the battles were not...

True that but when a player is listening to an NPC talk and knows what he is saying is bunk, but fails a Sense Motive check... The whole negotiation skill challenge example in DMG (pg 76-77) takes all roleplaying out because regardless of what you say it all comes down to your roll. In one...

It used to be about roleplaying. Now with 90% (Admittedly a number pulled out of my backside) of the rules devoted to what happens on your battlemat, it has lost the meaning of what D&D is to me. Granted it doesn't stop roleplaying and even added Skill Challenges to help facilitate other than...

Guild Wars Platinum has Prophecies and the expansion Eye of the North. It does NOT have Nightfall or Factions. No Paragons or Dervishes for me :(