A Rulebook for Arguments (4th Edition) Anthony Weston
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co

There's a sense I've graphed the "automatic" attack bonuses that fighters gained in early editions of the game (OD&D in 1974, AD&D in 1979, and D&D Basic/Expert in 1981) along with 4th Edition (2008). I like to think I play with a relatively balanced group of guys and we usually prefer our systems rules-lite, but in no time our Hackmaster sessions deteriorated into arguments and rules-lawyering. The arguments center on whether the benefits of gaining levels are too much, too little, or just right. Kenzer have taken those rules, rewritten them to fit within the universe of the comics (the foreword is credited to a comic character and the rules are listed as “fourth edition” when there are in fact no previous editions) and inflated them to turn them into something more than . I recently reread A Rulebook for Arguments the 4th edition, and since then, in day-to-day conversations, watching TV and reading blogs at Talking philosophy, I have been painfully aware of many examples of bad arguing. I just got a copy of the new edition (4th). After all, the line of argument goes, making a grappling mage in 3.x/Pathfinder isn't an easy thing to do -- the feat tax "trap" and the method of calculating basic attacks -- meant that it was primarily Fighters who were good at these maneuvers. Intent Arguments; Conflicts With Another Rule; "The rules don't say I can't!" "That's Not How it Works in the Question: In 40K (4th edition), can you ignore a large target to shoot at a smaller target further away? I believe that's because it goes directly to the heart of what a D&D character is at its most fundamental: a list of numbers and situation-based alterations to the rules. This review is from: A Rulebook for Arguments (Paperback). The fourth edition offers a revamped and more tightly focused approach to extended arguments, a new chapter on oral arguments, and updated examples and topics throughout. What actually happened is that Planescape was absorbed into the core D&D rules in both 3rd and 4th edition, less of a setting and more of an integral parrt of the game rules.