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Please stop attempting to compare apples to oranges. It's insulting. Yes, you can make a Dexterity Fighter, and no a Goliath will not be one. But there are Strength/Dexterity races to be if you wanted to make a Dexterity Fighter. Just as there are powerful Strength/Constitution builds to have if yo...

This is a generally good idea. 4e keeps the player and DM side of the equation very separate. Meaning that any time you are giving a bonus to the PCs, you could give an equal penalty to the NPCs and get the same effect - and the players wouldn't even need to know you were doing it. It's more total ...

No, a Halfling Fighter is not more playable in 4e than in 3e. At least not relative to other fighters. Sure Fighter is badass in 4e and ass in 3e, but if I made a 3.5 class that had an arbitrary +100 to every stat at level 1, a halfling one of those would be better than an orc fighter. A 3e halflin...

A Man In Black wrote:

Funswoggle wrote:I would say that earlier editions were far, FAR more prohibitive towards certain race, class combos. Hell, even Halflings make decent Fighters now.

Make a halfling wizard who isn't 100% inferior to a gnome.

Sure. As soon as you make ME one using 1st edition rules.

You know what I was just thinking "Man we need a 4e apologist, but not just any 4e apologist, also a grognard who likes 4e and is so completely gullible that he believes anything wotc says, like that essentials are not reprints, or that you can four different kinds of rogue viable." Also,...

With 4e on the way out (finally!) we can start analyzing where and how they went wrong. I don't mean "things they did that I don't like" (because there are lots of those), I mean "things they did that no one likes." Those are the things that sank the edition. Hate to break this ...

Instead of giving a blanket +1 to hit per tier, just subtract it from the Monsters' stats. Also, you might want to look into jacking down the monster HP and boosting damage, in essence making fights quicker and more brutal (closer to 3.x at least in THAT regard) And why give characters a feat at eve...

Good thing.

I like my fantasy wierd...the less Tolkien the better.

seems most like this isn't to help anyone but cause more problems be removing all previous D&D from existence. cause when one speaks of the red books, they mean the old one, and now it will get clouded and confused with the "essentials" red books rather than Basic.... how very shitty ...

Sorry to write an extra post - but I snuggled in one more info in my above post (to those who read it earlier). There's a 64-page rules booklet for the DM in the Red Box. 64 page DM's guide with advice on running games. 32 page player guide comprised of rules on 4 races and 4 classes, covering leve...

I'll take a piece of this action. $50 bucks cash money says you're wrong. Very funny. I never take a bet that I cannot win. Since my prediction is that there will never be an Arcane Power 2, I could never collect my 50 dollars since at any future point "never" won't have happened yet and ...

So we're calling it. 4th edition D&D gets its last book around the September mark, with the Rules Compendium. There is never going to be an Arcane Power 2 or a Shadow Power or a Darksun Player's Guide or any of that. The DMG 3 will not happen. Starting in Fall of 2010, they will produce a new l...