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Much[/i] higher damage to hit point ratio. It's seriously not even close. PvP should lead to shortish fights because the PC damage output is really quite close to the PC hit point totals. -Username17 Actually, PvP would either be extremely short or it would be the most mind numbingly long fight on ...

If a stone tower goes up overnight in D&D, you can be fairly confident that somewhere around is a guy who's capable of casting Wall of Stone, and probably casting it quite a few times if the tower is of any size. If it goes up overnight in Ars Magica, you can be pretty sure that there's a serio...

Knowledge: Nature. Oh snap! Wait, you mean there are skills to know things about things? So if I could roll Nature to know things about a swamp, I could roll Arcana or Dungeoneering to know things about a magically spontaneously generated physics-violating obsidian tower full of monsters? So Kaelik...

Knowledge: Nature. Oh snap! Wait, you mean there are skills to know things about things? So if I could roll Nature to know things about a swamp, I could roll Arcana or Dungeoneering to know things about a magically spontaneously generated physics-violating obsidian tower full of monsters? So Kaelik...

I'm curious, do you guys think strawmanning helps your position, or are you just looking to make 4e look as bad as possible? Because nobody has suggested the stuff that you claimed. But 4e DOES actually suggest "You can't take equipment off of the enemies, even if they were using it". I m...

In 3.5, the beatsticks can be archery specced. At low levels, even if they aren't, pewpewpew actually works. At higher levels, they're flying too. So in that game, the melee builds are a bit disadvantaged by flying opponents, but they aren't OMGWTF unbeatable. In 4.Fail, the MOB hovers 10 feet off ...

Also, a late game daily that flat-out kills an opponent is what passes for balance in 4e. You sure as fuck wouldn't fight a late game 4e solo , because that would be boring as fuck. High level dailies that don't do a lot of damage to a large number of enemies or negate a large number of incoming da...