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Message: <blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 4113759" data-attributes="member: 11">Okay, I am gonna try to respond to a few posts/questions all at once here, so bear with me. . .<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Right, I get that, but I don't like it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I don't like the idea of something magic being default anything.  Flavor-wise it just doesn't sit right with what I look for when I play D&D, or at least how I am used to playing it (we don't even use thunderstones or tanglefoot bags in my games - those would be special magical items).Yeah, actually, I don't like too big a diversity of options.  I think there is a such thing as too much choice, but I don't see that as an issue here.As for dynamic moving combats, I already have those in 3.xE.  This is another subject entirely, but from the beginning of the official 4E talk, I have found that many of the problems they are "fixing" never were problems for me and my group, but I understand and accept that we are not norm.I know this going to sound like I want it both ways (b/c I guess I do), but I also don't like the idea of fighter "powers" at all.  I rather have something like power attack that allows a character to trade up accuracy for damage as often as they like then a "martial power" arbitraritly usable once per day.  I can justify that for some kind of magical or ki ability, but it doesn't work for me in terms of what the fighter is.I don't see that as the same thing because those are (basically) passive abilities that augment something pre-existing, not a new ability added on to something basic that works everytime.  Or at least, that's how I see it.That's what I'm afraid of! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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