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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GnomeWorks" data-source="post: 4213058" data-attributes="member: 162">But if they were going to be given so few hit points as to only need one hit to take out anyway, then what's wrong with the idea?It's no different than requiring a feat. In 3e, if you tried using two weapons without TWF, you were basically throwing your attacks away. 4e is all about the removal of suboptimal choices, so they took out the ability to use two weapons if you didn't have TWF (or its 4e equivalent).Times change, different monsters become popular.And isn't it easy enough to reflavor monsters to other flavors, anyway? Like the frost giant thing - just take another giant and replace "[energy type"] with "cold". Bam, frost giant.It's not that pulling out the crossbow is the problem, it's the resource-management game. It's the idea that a low-level wizard can toss one, maybe two spells a day, which is dull and not really evocative of fantasy fiction. While being able to throw spells all the time may be a bit much, it is a step in the right direction.Illusions are absurdly difficult to adjudicate, and usually wind up causing no end of problems.Gnomes didn't have a niche. They were sorta-halfling sorta-dwarf sorta-elf, all balled into one weird conglomerate. Attempting to carve out a niche for the gnome would require messing with at least one of these races' shticks.I'd think that this works out mechanically different, though. I imagine it has a very different impact upon "the math," and since 4e is much more focused on "the math," turning everything into bonuses or lack of bonuses may have been easier to deal with than bonuses and penalties.It's once every five minutes, it's 30 feet, and they have to travel through a coterminuous plane to do so.But it beats "I stand there and full-attack it." You have to admit, having more options is rather neat, and gives somebody other than the wizard and cleric some fun things to do and consider. It makes the game a bit more tactical.To prevent a bunch of products of the like that we saw in the 3.0 glut. By keeping a bit of a tighter control on what's going on, WotC can at least help out to ensure that the market isn't flooded by a ton of crap.</devil's advocate></blockquote>

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