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They are also going to still publish books. There's a lot of speculation about things that have no basis in fact or even business logic.

My speculation? It's pretty way out there wacky but here goes. After 2 years, she was fully vested and found another job that she thought was a better fit. Perhaps it was more pay, closer to home, more flexibility, something she would find more challenging or some other reason. So she gave...

When you use phrases like It sounds condescending. That, if only I was as creative as you, I too could play the game right.

It's preference on style of play and I don't see the difference what label you put on it. I'd rather play the game I want, not be told that I'm not playing the game right or trying hard enough because we don't want the same experience.

Disrupting flight, to me, is completely different than knocking an amorphous creature prone. One is relying on maintaining movement speed and proper form most of the time. The other doesn't distinguish front from back much less up and down.

Which is why I don't use the feature as written. It's illogical, ridiculous even, that no matter where you go even onto an alternate plane of existence. It seems to assume that you stay relatively local, something that is rarely true in my campaigns. So I house rule it.

When it comes to game design you can take multiple approaches. In one, you simplify what happens in the real world and then add in features like magic and dragons. In another you start with abilities you think will be fun and fit into a game with features like magic and dragons. With most...

Soldiers flee battle but we wouldn't have much in the way of wars if it was common. As I said above, occasionally a PC can cause an enemy to flee. Sometimes enemies run away when they realize they're losing But it's unrelated to an individual being intimidating. As for #2, saying "Grr, aargh"...

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I don't care how you interpret it. I don't care what it's labeled. In the real world a soldier could only under rare and special circumstances intimidate an enemy so much that they would run. You cannot consistently frighten people that knowingly and willingly are already risking their lives...

That's a unique take on it. Not relevant to anything I've said, but if it makes you happy go for it.

Maybe typical, maybe not. The reason people typically stay is because of bonuses and restrictions in their employment agreement. But if there are no carrots or sticks for her to give more than a two week notice I see no reason for her to do so. It's not like they have any control over her...

WotC is just a subsidiary of HASBRO and without knowing her employment contract we simply don't know if there were any special rewards or penalties for not giving more than the standard 2 week notice. Just like we don't know why she's leaving even after almost 400 posts on the subject.

I was done with 4E a decade ago, I'm done arguing about it now. No matter how often the same arguments are made, it doesn't change anything. Come and Get It and several other fighter powers were supernatural as far as I'm concerned.

Untold millions of soldiers have charged into battle knowing they would likely not survive. People do things that terrify them all the time. Intimidating someone so much they run away is a mystical supernatural ability as far as I'm concerned. Intimidate may be useful in my games at certain...

It could be kind of interesting for a short term campaign to randomize class, subclass, race, background. Heck, you could easily come up with 20 arrays based on point buy and roll for which array to use. But personally? I'll never play in another game that randomizes ability scores. I just...

Huh. Here I thought that the best use of a GNOME was as a battering ram. That does explain a lot. :unsure:

I've never really liked randomness for character gen. Even back before there was anything like point buy, we just rolled up multiple PCs until we got something we liked. Far too often there are significant power differences between PCs if you do 4d6kl rolls. I'd rather have the character I...

The powers (and it was by no means limited to 4) were only 1 part of it. If you took away everything that bothered me, there wouldn't have been much left. I had a longer response but ultimately it was just a different game than what came before or has come since. It shared some names and...

As @UngeheuerLich stated, it was not just "four of several 100" powers that were the problems. You could, in theory, ignore them especially by the end of 4E's run in part because they released a book that gave you options to play more mundane martial characters. But it was too little too late...