The Gaming Den

I don't like the concept of healing surges that much, but it does highly simplify that particular question in 4e - and the intent of 4e, in most cases, is indeed to simplify these things while still allowing flexibility. Looking at it from a plausibility view, I personally would have fixed it a bit ...

I think ultimate should be less of a 'chargin' mah lazurs' deal and more of a 'blowing my load' deal, yes. It's a rather anticlimatic ultimate if you can't actually use it whenever you want, so I favor the 'dire consequences after using it' bit instead. However, in games where you have perfect infor...

The fight is between complexity and plausibility here. Most systems that would claim to be more robust in the 'probability of success' department and that also scale well on bonuses (magnitude and unequal fights) usually use a geometric system (where formulas involved are usually divisive) rather th...