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My Swordmage has this ability, and it has been a party saver a couple of times already and we just reached level 12. It has certainly annoyed the DM, but I don't believe it to be broken, at least for our particular group. We often have 5 or 6 encounters in a day, so having one encounter where...

Well, with the gaggle of saviors off to save the kid, it looks like it's up to me to prevent the obvious earth-shattering ritual being performed in the dragon keep, as well as to rescue the line of enslaved soon-to-be-sacrifices. *cue Quest for the Holy Grail Lancelot fight music*

Things that _we_ would call dinosaurs. But the same reasoning against calling this collection of creatures 'behemoths' applies to calling them 'dinosaurs'. The issue is that the D&D behemoths are still alive and well, and generally found randomly around the D&D world, while in RL we are able to...

Why not? The polymorph spell is already giving the caster body parts they didn't have before ... tails, feathers, beaks, horns, and so on. By this definition, casters shouldn't get any of those either. Can no one turn into an octopus then, or assume a six-legged basilisk shape, or become a...

There should always be a chance for death, otherwise, at least for me, most encounters would be boring. Even if I'm 99% sure we'll pull through fine, it's the 1% chance that adds more interest. Otherwise, there's not really a point to rolling the dice in the first place. Though I'm not a fan...

Both as a player and a DM, I greatly dislike the idea of Wishlists and fully stocked Magic-Marts(tm). I don't mind Wishlists as a source of potential inspiration for found treasure, but not as an expectation that all will be received. To me, treasure has always been 'work with what you find'...

And the point being? This was an issue with 3.X, from what I gather. Presumably the design team is taking Lessons Learned and applying them to 5E, and will attempt to keep spells more balanced. This does not mean that a spell cannot continue to be useful at higher levels. 4E seems to have...

Doesn't this make sense though? A high level wizard should be pretty skilled at casting their low-level spells. I'm totally in favour of low-level spells being useful throughout a caster's career. It makes it a lot more interesting than just settling on one or two spells at high level since all...

It really just comes down to the player and the level of complexity that they enjoy for a character. A lot of people like the design aspect of building a character, choosing their traits as they level. Lots like to have tons of options in a fight. Others like to just swing their weapon and smash...

From just the quote alone, I at first thought it was a PC who accidentally fell down into a pit, got up, brushed themselves off, and basically more eloquently said "Meant to do that." :p Oh fickle Fate, how you taunt me, foul temptress... If only they could at least manage to be "good" bad...

Doubtful ... I too never played 3E, though I DMed the heck out of AD&D. Partly it was the breakup of my group, partly not taken in by 3E's shinyness. It just never grabbed me, despite a couple of attempts to play and get into it. With my current 4E groups, I think only 2 or 3 come from playing...

Not really. Standing along the back edge of the square, your body is still pushing inwards around a foot, as will your opponent's, and that's with standing rigid and straight. So it's only 4 feet on the outside. Maybe if it was a knife fight. But with most any other weapon, you would have to be...

Certainly you could 'fit' in a square yard, but it gives no maneuvering room for a medium-sized person (I'd debate it containing most sturdy 6' tall fighting types with 16+ Str and Con). And while that's fine for some fighting styles (phalanxes and the like), it doesn't work for most others in...

I've always considered it the attacker's skill/luck/fate to hit AC, while the defender's skill/luck/fate is wrapped up in HP.

I could certainly get behind something like this. It would let criticals be more mechanically interesting than "just a lot of damage" and better reflect that a solid, deadly hit has been inflicted. More importantly, I think it would be a good comprimise between the HP camps. One issue would be...

It is certainly an interesting feature. But I could see issues with trying to keep track of them all, and in keeping some semblance of balance. Invariably, something like this will create a tiered array of options. Some will always be much more effective mechanics-wise than others, and be...

While I can get behind the intent of making spells useful throughout a character's career, I don't think this should be the way to do it. If your party is consistently having to beat down enemies in order for the caster to use such a spell, it would seem more likely that the caster is just going...

It certainly would be without taking the context of the word into consideration, or rule explanations. Otherwise, we could just as well be speaking about how popular a song is, or taking tokes on a spliff, and how does a 'hit' narrow to a sharp tapered end? It always seemed pretty clear to me...

4E, at least to me, is very much about being cinematic. It's flashy, it's got lots of maneuvers and abilities for heroes to use, it gives characters a goodly amount of HP with which to have long exciting battles in it. One of the things I think it does fairly well is to emulate heroes taking a...

Yours won't be the only voice, though I'm not sure how much more I could add, coming in late to the discussion, other than offering support. And more than likely I would have stayed silent, because in truth I have little direct experience with the issues. I'm coming up on 30 years of gaming...