Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Ydars" data-source="post: 4277312" data-attributes="member: 62992">I agree with you that 4E looks a simple game on the surface, but in fact is HUGELY more ambigiously written than say 3.5E.This is mainly because half of the powers are hard to explain in terms of what they represent in the real-world, as are many of the concepts they build on e.g. HP. So the DM has a harder time arguing with this sort of gamist logic. However, it is pure meta-gaming and I would not allow it purely for that reason. The power you mention is divine; if a paladin in my game tried it, he would lose ALL his powers for several weeks because this represents evil; i.e. ending the lives of living beings purely for his benefit.Surely the renewing smite power has to represent the effect of an agent of good raising morale in a beleagured party by hammering a real threat; not a sordid smashing of helpless monsters for a video-game style effect?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ydars, post: 4277312, member: 62992"] I agree with you that 4E looks a simple game on the surface, but in fact is HUGELY more ambigiously written than say 3.5E. This is mainly because half of the powers are hard to explain in terms of what they represent in the real-world, as are many of the concepts they build on e.g. HP. So the DM has a harder time arguing with this sort of gamist logic. However, it is pure meta-gaming and I would not allow it purely for that reason. The power you mention is divine; if a paladin in my game tried it, he would lose ALL his powers for several weeks because this represents evil; i.e. ending the lives of living beings purely for his benefit. Surely the renewing smite power has to represent the effect of an agent of good raising morale in a beleagured party by hammering a real threat; not a sordid smashing of helpless monsters for a video-game style effect? [/QUOTE]

Verification