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1189148439[/unixtime]][br]It's a good idea to let it be an option for those who can think of a way to make it exciting for them, but the main problem is that the only people who could make it an option are the people who can see it as exciting. So it's up to them to decide on what rules work and wh...

So why do you love ravenloft? [br][br]Greyhawk should be easy to just drop in. Most people are NPC-classed anyway, and the flavor of the setting is pretty much DM-directed anyway.[br][br]Dragonlance... ugh. No, I can't give you advice on using dragonlance. Except possibly as toliet-paper. Stupid one...

Meh. "I've heard some things and I've been frightened by other things, so I'm scared. And while I'm at it, I'll extrapolated out some wacky postulates that support my fear." Not much of a list of concerns.[br][br]Could 4E suck? Sure. Can they make bad design decisions? Yep. Is there enough...

Well, as to that... it depends. I've been playing a melee character with short duration self-buffs recently (plus sword + board, and expertise). In any situation where I have time to prepare myself, the character rocked (except, when we started hitting CR 8/9. At the point, the character was decent,...

Thats just sad. They seriously came up with 782 prestige classes? Oh, they didn't there are a 100 or so duplicates or epic versions. Still... thats a giant steaming pile of crap.

1189052149[/unixtime]]I posted a spell on Wizards about 2 years ago, along with a post on Monte Cook's and Sean K. Reynold's forums (the latter is a cool guy)[br][br]Something very similar ended up in Spell Compendium, only 2 spell levels higher. Theirs is called Explosive Cascade, mine Burning Cas...

1188996890[/unixtime]]Lago, Voss is clearly of the opinion that all cultures are equally valid. He appears to want to import that morality into the game. [br][br]I don't actually, or rather, not exactly. I'd rather see morality that actually fit the setting. Ans since survival is the big issue in D...

1188928180[/unixtime]][br]WHAT makes the characters on the side of 'Good'? In this entire thread, Voss, you haven't explained what Good means to you. You've rejected both Kantian and utilitarian definitions of Good AFAIK so the only justification I can see is Red vs. Blue. And I've already exhausti...

1188895676[/unixtime][br][br]You're killing goblins and taking their stuff... because goblins are trying to kill you and take your stuff. When they beat you to the punch, that's an act of evil, but when YOU do it it's an act for good.[br][br]Before we get any further I need you to answer: why is th...

A couple things on the class itself- you are using 'reforging' in two different ways. In one instance, its changing the type/bonus/powers of the item, and later, its referring to simply manifesting the item. Weird and confusing.[br][br]Metaphysical weapon (and some of the other weapon buffs, I guess...

KauTZ- track is a feat. You don't need to waste anything on a ranger level. So its just the 1 ML loss from the class. Not great, but I can see why people would be tempted.

Not really, especially from the peasants viewpoint. They work their asses off from dawn til dusk pretty much every day of every year. Miller comes in, has someone else (possibly them) build a couples wheels, attaches some 'magic things' (gears) and lets nature & the peasants do all the real work...

Its come up in other things too, so I don't think it is going to go away. In the latest playtest blurb, a ranger gets a free shot at a goblin archer that attacks him.[br][br]I'm also not sure that immediate reactions are counter-intuitive to any design goals they may have. They do seem to be replaci...

1188792177[/unixtime]]This one doesn't really make me laugh nor cry, but does raise my skepticism about 4e[br][br] Death of Role Playing [br][br]Aw, he managed to work some big-people words and [paraphrased] quotes into the most boring attempt at a diatribe I've seen yet. [br][br]Oh noes, 4E will b...

They're stupid and they by and large don't care if the game is good, they just want the stupid crap they care about to be the same or better. And, of course, rumors are facts and facts are rumors depending on how it affects their character's power level.

1188743385[/unixtime]]Yea, I know, they shouldn't make me cry. I should expect a bunch of loosers in the er Gleemax forums and when they live up to their expectations I should not be surprised. I mean postulating manure in a vaccuum (because there is a lot of 4E that is still unknown) is their spec...

Thats not really fair though. In the system presented, killing goblins and taking their stuff is a supremely moral act, particularly if you are of the opposite alignment. [br][br]Dead goblins can't commit Evil acts, so thats a win for Good.[br]Taking their stuff means they (or future generations of ...

1188763882[/unixtime]][br]It may be fun for a few, but for most, it is not. I am fighting for a group of like-minded gamers who I don't even play with, much less know! But the the myriad amounts of "Fighters suck!" threads on WotC makes me feel lucky that I have players that have fun play...

I think its more implied by the stupidity of the system, but fair enough.

Well... not necessarily. Sometimes you just luck out, and sometimes you don't hit the real problems until later. A recent campaign I was in serves a good example, even though it was Arcana Unearthed rather than D&D.[br][br]Basically, 4-8th level was a cakewalk for our party, even though there we...

1188672201[/unixtime][br]well lets see here...[br]Our society feeds a whole lot of people, and I don't think a game company is the only thing I'll be doing... I'm also looking at owning a restaurant, and owning a store or two... and while my inherent nature means that the restaurant will be kinda n...

What? [br]Thats a steaming load. Its the same kind of circular reasoning that defines a window as a window because its a window.[br][br]Plus, for some bizarre reason, you are suggesting that Good and Evil are inherently Lawful. [br][br]And this[br] If the damage done matches an outside source of Evi...

Variety enough? Maybe, though I'd question magical beasts and possibly even unintelligent undead. Are they evil, or are they merely useful? Assuming of course that culturally you won't freak out if we turn grandpa's corpse into field hand for eternity.[br][br]It probably is doable they way your sugg...

1188508508[/unixtime]]OK, the second quote may deserve the "void rhetoric" qualifier; but, about the second, I don't know how it could be empty - what I meant is that you've been basing most of your arguments on how things are and seemingly ignoring that people might want things to cease ...

1188403106[/unixtime][br][br] [pretty much everything] Most of your point seems to be that nobody in any setting had ideas close to modern views of equality/peace/self-sacrifice. And that's wrong - Jesus "Ilmater" Christ exists in Faerûn, and, seriously isn't the "Lion of God" s...