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<blockquote data-quote="Tovec" data-source="post: 5914766" data-attributes="member: 95493">Exclude the 10 minute part and you have classic star trek transporters. Transporting from one transporter room to another sounds great, but the amount of options that exist where you teleport to a completely different point are endless. If anything I think that teleportation pads are too limiting and deserve too many rules to make them work effectively to be practical.Now I'm not saying there shouldn't be serious restrictions to teleporting. Especially as to where they can end up or what stops them before they re-materialize. Thick stone, magical warding, lead, or similar tricks should automatically cause teleportation to fail. Simple tricks should be known to make it so that people can easily guard against teleportation. But that is completely different than teleportation pads. If anything teleportation pads should allow near perfect teleporting but other forms should exist too.Just my two cents.5e isn't doomed. The open beta isn't even out yet. It will fail if it doesn't appeal to a large enough market, which will be people of any edition and every edition who are willing to give it a try. If they limit the design to a rehash of 4e then they automatically alienate anyone who didn't like 4e, simple as that. Now there are certainly ways to introduce element of 4e that non-4e people will like (or at least tolerate) but they can't just make 4e and reintroduce older ideas and call it job done.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tovec, post: 5914766, member: 95493"] Exclude the 10 minute part and you have classic star trek transporters. Transporting from one transporter room to another [I]sounds [/I]great, but the amount of options that exist where you teleport to a completely different point are endless. If anything I think that teleportation pads are too limiting and deserve too many rules to make them work effectively to be practical. Now I'm not saying there shouldn't be serious restrictions to teleporting. Especially as to where they can end up or what stops them before they re-materialize. Thick stone, magical warding, lead, or similar tricks should automatically cause teleportation to fail. Simple tricks should be known to make it so that people can easily guard against teleportation. But that is completely different than teleportation pads. If anything teleportation pads should allow near perfect teleporting but other forms should exist too. Just my two cents. 5e isn't doomed. The open beta isn't even out yet. It will fail if it doesn't appeal to a large enough market, which will be people of any edition and every edition who are willing to give it a try. If they limit the design to a rehash of 4e then they automatically alienate anyone who didn't like 4e, simple as that. Now there are certainly ways to introduce element of 4e that non-4e people will like (or at least tolerate) but they can't just make 4e and reintroduce older ideas and call it job done. [/QUOTE]

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