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Has anyone of you ever used foreign languages for effect in RPGs? Recently, I thought of the possibility, and I am interested if anyone has experience to share. I am German, so everyone in my group is fluent in German and English. We usually play in German, with some rare English sessions, but...

I like the concept, but dislike the name. Did anyone come up with an alternative?

Inspired by the thread that asks suggestions for replacing Halflings. Ever since I started playing, I didn't like having Half-Elves as a seperate race. The concept never worked for me, and such characters were rarely played in campaigns I participated in. So for the future, I have decided to...

That's something that has bothered me for a while. People throw the term "talent tree" around as if we knew they are in. At first, I strongly supported the idea. Every class would have three or four, and every race one or two sets of abilities, that would all require other abilities of that same...

One thing that always bothered me about D&D is the assumption that elves live at least ten times as long as humans do, yet still usually accomplish less in their life. The common level 1 human adventurer at level 1, about 18 years old knows more (has more skills and a feat) than the elvish...

There is one thing about "per encounter"-abilities that I hate: The flavor of an ability that is encounter-based is totally off. I believe my very first impression of them, once I stopped looking at it mechanicly, was something like this: "An ability can only be used during one encounter, no...

This is something I wondered about. People were up in arms about the flavor of the new Warlock class, some saw a pure NPC class. Where I saw a perfectly viable, more clichee than Cleric, player character class. Of course, this is a matter of opinion. I never liked the group of the glorious...

One thing that come to my mind recently: (Assuming Warlocks will be Controllers, which seems pretty likely by now): In 4E, a group consisting of a Fighter, a Warlord, a Ranger and a Warlock will, if we can believe the designers, work just as well as a traditional group consisting of a Fighter, a...

Most of us will probably agree that iconic spells like "Finger of Death" and "Wail of the Banshee" need to be in the game in one or the other, but opinions are divided how exactly they should work. Given that we don't know how they are handled in 4E, I thought it would be interesting to see what...