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They've already announced that they're making crafting much cheaper and buffing the Legendaries because the current ones aren't satisfying. I'm somewhat cynical about this. First of all crafting needs to be less random and more powerful if it's competing with the auction house, or even with drops. ...

Just wondering, I'm not able to think of any off the top of my head but what system uses a large number of drain abilities? The idea sounds very interesting, if implemented well.

Switching to a chance based duration system rather than tracking large numbers of individual rounds was a good idea. How do you think this should work out, ideally? Should it be a flat % each time? Should that % ever be modified? By what? Should that % be based off of what spell is being used, who ...

Doing away with Skill Ranks in favor of Skill Tags was a good idea. Just wondering, why do you think this is? I've found the skill system to be kinda disappointing. I know before it ended up largely with a binary system (either you always do something, or you never do something), but now there does...

I like a lot of the ideas of 4th, but I just think a lot are implemented badly. I started about a month ago, and was pretty gung ho after my friend showed me some stuff (after mocking it horribly at first). I enjoyed it at first, it seemed (reasonably) balanced, and everyone always had some option t...

However, a fantasy setting has fantasy teleportation, fantasy levitation, fantasy beasts of burden and fantasy means of production. So either it's impossible to compare, and we shouldn't try writing fantasy at all, or we can try to compare, and we can try to write fantasy, eh? -Crissa We can't quan...

IIRC, cost of the food at a restaurant is "typically" about 15% of the bill. I'm sure it varies a huge amount.... Prepared Hotdog at stand on the highway: $4 Package of eight hotdogs, unprepared, at retail store on same highway: $4 Package of same hotdogs, unprepared, at retail megastore ...

Well, it's interesting that this thread has not only shown that Habitat for Humanity can't exist (since even being charitable people would just work themselves and hire others to do the cheap labor/fix "greater" problems than just making 1 family a home) and also that the industrial revolu...

I've recently started looking at the board again, and it seems as if the tone is noticeably less inviting than before. Which really doesn't help attract new people. It's really a shame, I think because I think this board is great for information about all sorts of RPG's, but few people would find th...

I hate all arthropods. My old apartment was relatively bare (I think I saw maybe 10 total in 2 years) but my new place has me killing spiders constantly, on top of ants, pillbugs, earwigs, and other things.

I agree in practice (especially w/r/t turn undead), but I'm not sure I agree in theory. Saying fire resist is worthless isn't much different than saying bonuses to will saves are worthless (neither might come up in an adventure/campaign). Or in extreme cases, saying bonuses to AC are worthless (bec...

I agree in practice (especially w/r/t turn undead), but I'm not sure I agree in theory. Saying fire resist is worthless isn't much different than saying bonuses to will saves are worthless (neither might come up in an adventure/campaign). Or in extreme cases, saying bonuses to AC are worthless (beca...

The big problem I've seen with 4e is that a bunch of the content is either useless, irrelevant, or badly organized. Many things just seem scattered about in different places. Or they've fluffed things out that would work better in a smaller (and hopefully, cheaper format). DMG 2 reminds me of that, ...

A site used to have a page of rants about 4e. While alot of these have been mentioned here (and a certainly came from folks here), it's worth seeing what others in the Wide World had to say. snip lots of stuff Well, that was an interesting read. I didn't go to the links initially because I had hope...

The Christmas Tree effect is when you have a character walking around with two magic rings, a magic amulet, a magic hat or crown or small boxed tied to the front of their head, magic gloves, magic shoes, magic pants, magic belt, magic armor, with a magic cape or robe worn over this, and carrying ma...

* Christmas Tree Effect (they actually promised to solve this!) * Linear Warriors vs. Quadratic Wizards * A lack of a skill challenge system * Empty Levels * RNG deviations Thanks for all the replies everyone. I'm still trying to get a hold of a lot of the system. What did they screw up mechanically...

I do know that CGL isn't in the habit of revealing metaplots to people without NDAs. You may be legally in the clear if CGl fucked up its paperwork, but that doesn't make it any less of a slimeball thing to do. But all of that misses the bigger issue. Revealing a plot with the purpose of derailing ...

They do, from the bathroom to killing. Pretending women and men are the same is just as bad as assuming one is lesser than the other. The genders are different. Gender is, however, a social construct. While there seems to be some basal programming to body image, such as transsexuals, humans are cap...

Please excuse my ignorance I've been out of the gaming loop for awhile. But why is 4th failing? And what are seen as the big problems with it? I've been playing around with the system a bit now, and from what I see, it's pretty solid. It seems to do a much better job of keeping people close in power...

What you got there is just a very slight variation on the "Fighters cannot have nice things" meme. Both Conan and Elric fit into it in their own way. Conan is basically a 4th level Fighter/Thief in the grand tradition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. He has a high Strength score and ca...

Most of the powers Elric gains are more from magic items/actual spells, rather than combat prowess (he starts off a skilled swordsman according to the story). And I don't remember him much cycling (although in hindsight you're probably spot-on about Conan). I guess my big thing is that with magic yo...

In short, when a character does something noteworthy, as most actions in combat presumably should be, they should be doing something that is describable narratively. Which means that the metaphor of playing a card to take an action is a pretty decent one. Every time the Hero does something it shoul...

1126260407[/unixtime] [br]By now you should at least know what my classifications mean and what I'm saying. IF you want to try to argue how a deckbuilder system is inherently better than a balanced one, then go ahead... but please stop with the Bill Clinton style redefining of terms. [br][br]You kn...

1126235457[/unixtime]] [br]And as for preparation, it can make a big difference. I remember when IBM finally made a deep blue that beat Kasparov, he complained up a storm about the computer being able to study his moves and tendencies without him being able to do the same. [br][br]I'm not saying pr...

1126214048[/unixtime]] 1126105182[/unixtime]]Maybe in that random chess thing that Fischer invented, but I think that for good chess players, the work begins before the start of the game - studying the opponent's past games etc etc - I think that chess isnt the best thing to use as an analogy.[br] ...