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Sounds rather like the chronocross paradigm.

Yeah I hated the old 3.5 durations. As a DM I don't want to get into arguments about how much time has passed. [br][br]"No, way it'd take us 10 minutes to do that."[br][br]That shit is so annoying. [br][br]If it lasts longer than a combat, then just make it last until you rest. Nothing wor...

Well, there's a lot of monsters that behave like a dire animal. Trolls, hydras, giants, minotaurs, dinosaurs, Giant Vermin, big skeletons, big zombies, golems, most elementals, displacer beasts... I could go on and on. [br][br]The point is, that's a large and significant part of the encounters you'l...

1204566181[/unixtime]]First: what's the problem with Tarzan? I think we're talking wilderness-adept people here ...[br] [br]Sure if you're dealing with a bunch of rangers and such, they can manage that. Of course, the average D&D group can't. Good luck branch leaping cleric in full plate. And i...

1204560489[/unixtime]][br]Now, for when the bear gives up and goes behind cover or into his cave, how is this any different than dealing with a flier? [br][br]Because trees don't fucking move. You can just duck behind cover and your'e safe from someone in a tree, like forever. And if the guy in the...

1204557708[/unixtime]]Blech, 1 round durations suck. [br][br]I like the general direction they went with durations. having to track a 5 round duration is a real pain in the ass. The saving throw concept keeps people from having to remember durations and crap. I can envison having longer lasting stu...

1204534694[/unixtime]]Virgileso pretty much said it already, but there's more than one kind of 'flight'. Against a dire bear in a big forest, 'climb the biggest tree' is a better form of flight than 'clumsy realistic flight', because in the tree you don't have to worry about crashing into something...

1204521938[/unixtime]]Sigh... why do I get the feeling this change was less for combat balance reasons and more for all the GMs that bitched how long duration flight magic broke their LotR-With-Slightly-Different-Window-Dressing game [br][br] [br][br]Flight was uber in combat, and it came way too e...

wtf is up with mirror image? +6 to AC (but not reflex), so it doesn't help against touch attacks.

And I really don't like all the damage types. They should have made it simpler, not more complex. Theres so many damage types that resistances probably aren't even worth a damn anymore.

Koumei at [unixtime wrote:1204504210[/unixtime]]

Apparently, though the actual size caps out, the damage keeps scaling as though the size had increased. Which is just bizarre.

Where does it actually say that though?

Size increases cap out at colossal though, don't they?

1204489370[/unixtime]]Why do they hate the rogues so much? [br][br]Basically because they're playing Final Fantasy D&D now. Boss monsters have massive amounts of hp, and the one shot kill just doesn't even exist because it'd be ridiculously overpowered in the current paradigm. [br][br]They want...

1204372843[/unixtime]][br]But over and above that, the math of 4th edition that they are so smugly proud of is so shitty that I can't even wrap my mind around it. I can't give a good answer for what any of these critters should do numerically because I'm genuine offended by the rubric they are thro...

1204165146[/unixtime]][br]Also FFG produces quality products. Mongoose mostly doesn't. But Mongoose DOES know how to pick projects that people want to see.[br] [br][br]Yeah, I'll give Mongoose that. Their writers basically have no clue as to how game design should work, but they do design stuff bas...

1204325220[/unixtime]][br]When they say "controller" they don't mean a guy who puts up walls of force and shit like that. No, as best as I can tell, "Controller" means: guy who deals damage to lots of enemies at once, because throwing fireballs around the room is fuckin' cool! [...

1204312160[/unixtime]]And the bog standard kobold-[br]http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=220181[br][br]is really fucking tough![br][br]27 hps[br]attack at +6 and d8 damage +d6 if it has combat advantage[br]+1 to its attack for each kobold adjacent to the target![br][br]Everybody's fucking supe...

How I basically play it is that a big barrel of alchemists fire is just a collossal scaled alchemists fire. So you do the sizing rules for weapons and size alchemists fire to collossal or gargantuan, depending on how big it is.

I sorta like the healing surge thing. It's a way to make hp an expendable resource and still allow clerics to heal at will. It also makes some characters beyond healing as well. So if you want that plot device guy who is gonna die and can't be healed.

Absentminded_Wizard at [unixtime wrote:1204272529[/unixtime]]
12. Cover gives a static -2 penalty to attacks, even if it's 100%. WTF?

This can't be. Even the design team isn't that stupid.

The mace says it ignores damage reduction.

DR X/- is damage reduction.

Therefore, the mace ignores DR X/-.

1204238011[/unixtime]][br]DR/- is pretty unique in that it is the only defense that has no counter. Even hardness can be beaten with adamantine. I think the ability to negate such a unique and potent defense deserves to be specifically called out.[br] [br][br]There are lots of way to beat it. Eleme...

1204238282[/unixtime]][br][br]Reach weapons (and creatures with reach) magically atrophy when it isn't your turn. No explanation for it. You just don't have reach when it isn't your action. Spears are offensive weapons, and a phalanx is apparently the stupidest thing ever, since someone can just wa...

NoDot at [unixtime wrote:1203975813[/unixtime]]Quick question: can you mix-and-match between Battle Reserve and Defense Systems or are they too inherently non-jiving?

Sure D&D does it. HP is a battle reserve and AC is a defense.

1203931766[/unixtime]][br][br]So no, +1 every four levels isn't balanced. But increasing attributes faster than that is less balanced. Ideally, we'd go back to the old D&D system where your stats didn't go up at all. But that isn't happening. 4e is removing the belt of strength and giving us fa...

Yeah when I think about it, I just don't see a difference between battle reserve and defenses in the case of cinematic characters. I see the mechanical difference, but to say that one guy in a book/movie is on BR and the other is on defenses just doesn't work. [br][br]The basic premises is that BR g...