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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5895069" data-attributes="member: 42582">I agree with this.In the spirit of this thread, I'll explain why, for me, this is a strength of 4e.Because instead of having to track durations in a "How much time exactly is passing in the gameworld?" way (1 min/lvl, 10 min/lvl, etc), tracking is confined to within a conflict. This is part of the way in which I think 4e focuses minutiae into the action of play rather than away from the action.But absolutely 4e still has minutiae. This came up in my game yesterday when the paladin made a ranged attack as a reaction during the turn of the dazed, prone enemy to whom he was adjacent. The rules processing went like this: dazed, so combat advantage; but prone, so -2 penalty to ranged attacks that cancels out the bonus; but (suggested one of the players), doesn't that penalty apply only to non-adjacent ranged attacks?; check rules, find player is correct; player of paladin is happy because his attack hits rather than misses, but also comments that the rules are a little on the intricate side!</blockquote>