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<blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 1386287" data-attributes="member: 172">Now waitaminnit. We aren't talking about &quot;stupid joystick tricks&quot; here. We are talking about a supplement that adds more detail to combat that just saying &quot;you hit/roll damage&quot; ad naseum. The latter sounds much more to me like &quot;less thinking.&quot; Providing maneuvers that are advantageous in certain situations, and having the player strive to expoit them is, if anything, more thinking, not to mention, another way you can differentiate your character from being just another fighter.It strikes me that you are obviously attacking this book sight unseen, which in my book is &quot;not cool.&quot; Do you subscribe to the Dragon? Did you read the article about Dragon Templates in Dragon #313? That article is by the same author. Read it and tell me that you think that article is coming from some shallow powergamer.Not the same thing. That's giving you a different familiar (except the spell, with is sort of limited). Some players prefer something a little more subtle than having a fire elemental or psuedodragon familiar.As the saying goes, don't try to eat the whole cow... just take the cuts you need.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Psion, post: 1386287, member: 172"] Now waitaminnit. We aren't talking about "stupid joystick tricks" here. We are talking about a supplement that adds more detail to combat that just saying "you hit/roll damage" ad naseum. The latter sounds much more to me like "less thinking." Providing maneuvers that are advantageous in certain situations, and having the player strive to expoit them is, if anything, more thinking, not to mention, another way you can differentiate your character from being just another fighter. It strikes me that you are obviously attacking this book sight unseen, which in my book is "not cool." Do you subscribe to the Dragon? Did you read the article about Dragon Templates in Dragon #313? That article is by the same author. Read it and tell me that you think that article is coming from some shallow powergamer. Not the same thing. That's giving you a different familiar (except the spell, with is sort of limited). Some players prefer something a little more subtle than having a fire elemental or psuedodragon familiar. As the saying goes, don't try to eat the whole cow... just take the cuts you need. [/QUOTE]

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