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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hong" data-source="post: 984240" data-attributes="member: 537">If those sales figures are anywhere near D&D's, I'd be surprised.The bulk of people posting on boards tend to be DMs, who are disproportionately concerned with things like world design and verisimilitude. Most players don't really care too much about whether raise dead is so cheap that everyone could be raised, as long as they can do it.Hello. It's called "3.5E", not "4E". If you're looking for a fundamental rejigging of the combat system, come back in 2006 or thereabouts.At _low_ low levels (1st-3rd), D&D is deadly. At high levels, (12th+), it's also deadly. In the middle, it's not so deadly. Have you played any high-level campaigns?Actually, from what I hear, they've nerfed exactly two: disintegrate and harm. Finger of death, slay living, destruction, power word kill, flesh to stone, prismatic spray, and plane shift (teleport someone to the Abyss) are still remaining untouched.Huh?Who disdains reloading? Noone I know of, except a minority who like playing iron man. What's disdained is _unavoidable_ reloading, where a fight is so hard you have to do it multiple times before you figure out the trick, or get lucky.Please be aware that trolling is MY schtick, and I get most displeased when people STEAL MY SCHTICK. So please do not steal my schtick. ThaADVANCEnks!Let me tell you about our high-level campaign. Ever since reaching 15th level, we've been averaging about one death per session, and this is with powerful characters and a sympathetic DM. In the last few months, we've been slogging through the RttToH, and the death rate has gone up to about two per session. On a good day, it can go to 3. The only thing that helps maintain any semblance of continuity is plentiful raising, in particular true res. If prices go up to 25000 gp, you're going to have a lot more people thinking about retiring dead PCs and making up new ones.When you're shelling out for a true res every session, it adds up, believe me.Duh. I just SAID that the problems arise at high levels.</blockquote>

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