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I'm afraid I don't understand this. I can understand hit points being an abstract concept, but I don't see how you can abstract the mechanism of healing. To me it sounds like a contrived hand-waving manoeuver. "It just happens, ok?" kind of thing. There are definite, non-abstract modes of...

Because I don't accept videogame-like handwaving at my table? That kind of explanation is just as good as no explanation at all. You could very well have a game where eating food heals your HP and physically closes your wounds. In my games I demand at least a small adherence to reality (not...

The problem with this model is that you need to explain why the spellcasters don't have access to this technical device. It's hard to equate the power of reality to the power of magic, which is why there is such a logical disconnect between magical and martial healing. I can accept Sims'...

I don't understand what you mean by 4E's HP mechanic following it's text better than previous editions. HP were always an abstraction of damage. It's just that now the damage part isn't even necessarily involved anymore. You can "heal" yourself non-magically mid-battle, and to complete full...

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Indeed, and it's soundly in their court on how to convince people to leave their investment and pick up the new game. If it were only a simple decision between option A and option B, I'm sure most of us would at least sample each to see which they like. The movie comparison is especially apt...

It's one of the more sensible interpretations of the 4E healing system. The fact that you can be "hit" with a weapon (an arrow, for instance) and then promptly use a healing surge to restore your state to your status prior to being hit, all without the use of any magic implies that you weren't...

Right, the problem occurs precisely when there is no desicription that fits the mechanics. This is the case with the Picador harpooning ability. 4E hitpoints seem to represent no physical injury whatsoever, which if kept consistent works. You need to use strained and tenuous logic however to...

While I normally agree, it is somewhat of an issue for me if it's the designers that play this way predominantly. It means that the material they develop will favour that style of play, because it is what they're familiar with, what they envision DnD to be. Someone else did point out that this...

Pretty much the exact reaction of my players. Except they took issue with the verisimilitude breaking elements. They have a certain "Really? You want to start a campfire using wet $100 bills?" look on their faces reading some of them. CleverNickName, I don't doubt my group would have the...

...useable once per day, doing 1d8 + attribute damage and causing a minor movement effect? Ok, I promise to spend the rest of my energy figuring out how to get this train back on its rails

Narrative control; good. Brain imploding mechanics; bad. I'm already picturing the look of exasperation on a DM's face when he has to explain how the completely unarmored wizard (heck, shirtless too cause that's badass) is being pulled around by goblins with harpoons. Especially given that in...

I'm reminded of the dragon from Shrek, which would kill encounter excitement like finding out your date for the night was actually a man.

I was going to go with Guild Wars, but I guess yours has more bite. And oh yeah, it's um, too anime too.

Am I the only one that finds this unsettling? I know different game tables have different styles of play, but I didn't know the developers played such a...kick-in-the-door type of game. At the risk of sounding arrogant, those types of games got old and uninteresting very quickly for my gaming...

This is what happens when a certain brand manager is allowed to dabble in game design.

I'm surprised no one found the Dwarf's demeanor to be as incredibly funny as I did. The emphatic 'FOOD' stamping after his story was veering was just icing.

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I'm fairly sure that level of concentrated awesome causes cancer.

I agree with you that forcing rerolls is better than rerolling your own rolls. C.Sc does allow exactly that, several times a day (and fairly early on in level). The 4E Displacement power is obtained at 16th level, fully half-way through a PC's career. It stands to reason that it should be...