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    Critique my Rogue Build?

    Another one of those kind of threads. :P I'm about to play in my first Pathfinder game, which in essence is really my first 3.X Edition game outside of a few sessions in a 3E Dragonlance game. Anyway, chargen is supposed to be at the table itself, but I've decided I want to work out most of...
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    D&D 4E Since the announcement of D&D Next, are you still buying 4E product?

    I agree. For me, living in a country that is technically on a lower standard of living, I've been generally very picky about what 4e books I bought just CAUSE a $20 to $30 book is a really large purchase that counts as a week worth of groceries for me. "I'll continue to buy everything" and...
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    August 2012--Menzoberranzan: City of Intrigue

    The Realms are HUGELY popular and there's a big faction of people who are kind of unhappy with the original setting books for 4E, nevermind those who were also unhappy with the time-jump and spell plague. The sudden FR focus is basically WotC trying to win that (sizable) audience back to 4E, in...
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    The fluff difference between bladesingers and swordmages

    Eladrin are obviously the guys who really find different ways to swing a sword. That's cause they're SOOOOO fey.
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    Are encounters too easy?

    Players do a good enough job of making encounters harder for themselves.
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    Ride Skill in D&D 4

    Indeed. In fact, a character who DOES fall off his mount would be the noteworthy exception IN the fantasy movie, played up as comically incompetent next to his more horse-abled peers.
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    Ride Skill in D&D 4

    Like Klaus said, this is how I'd handle it. I know people are kind of split on the 'assumption' that ALL 4E characters are competent on a horse, but I think this approach sort of affirms the validity of that assumption. Simply put, you don't create an extension of mechanics to accomodate...
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    Ecology of the Hengeyokai (+ New Race Option!)

    You say that like it is a bad thing.
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    Question on the Vadalis Griffonmaster paragon path

    Actually, no. :D
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    Ecology of the Hengeyokai (+ New Race Option!)

    Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Ecology of the Hengeyokai) Play as a furry? YEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!
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    Essential Essentials

    I knoerait? But that's the nature of message boards. Everyone wants to get the final word on something, regardless of whether they agree with the post they are responding to or not. That said... In a short word, yes. They're good value for money in the sense that they give you races and...
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    Essential Essentials

    Indeed. Whenever the designers and developers say 'Essentialized' I think it's less an instance of them distinguishing what is Essentials or not and more a case of them adopting the way the term has been used online as a short hand to refer to changes in design approach that have emerged since...
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    The Pixie is up!

    I am now determined to make an entire party of pixie adventurers. As the villains of my campaign.
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    Monte Cook back at wizards

    Exactly. The only thing you can count overzealous fanboys to hate more than their favorite thing being changed is the very thing they oppose being changed to be more like their favorite thing. I mean, do you know how many tech pundits and fanboys got upset each time Microsoft evolved Windows...
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    Where do devils go when they die (on the Prime Material)?

    Where do devils go when they die? Why, they don't go to heaven where the angels fly. They go to a lake of fire and fry. And you won't see them again until the fourth of July.
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    Monte Cook back at wizards

    At first, I thought, you're absolutely right. And then I thought *shrug* I dunno, what happens if a 3e/PF fan gets upset when something 3e/PFey comes out in the 4e branch and then he or she is all like NERDRAGE!? because now 4e is more like the edition they like and that makes her unhappy!!111...
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    D&D 5E Weighing in on 5e

    I wouldn't call Mazzanoble irrelevant or useless, but if she's there to speak to the female demographic, she's not doing a great job. My gaming circle has a ration of 7 female gamers to 5, and those females have mixed -- not necessarily overwhelmingly negative -- feelings about her writing. At...
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    D&D 5E Weighing in on 5e

    Agreed. Some of these suggestions, especially the ones involving minimal dice rolling, fixed monster/player math, etc. are completely different games. And I say that as someone who enjoys playing those kinds of games. I have a lot of problems with 4th Edition, many of them the same problems...
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    Monte Cook back at wizards

    It's quite likely that if Monte has a role outside of Legends and Lore articles, it's to act as a consultant of the 3.x ethos to help marry more old school ideas (not necessarily simulationist ones, good or bad) into 4e or future editions. Design and development is a team effort, and its quite...
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    2nd Wind - anytime ?

    Heh. SAGA was also the game I learned before 4E and we frequently made the mistake of making 4E PCs take OAs whenever they chose to second wind in a threatened square, though we didn't apply the half-hit-point-conditional use.
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