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So in the Classes packet, it says of martial damage dice, "When you spend a martial damage die, you cannot use it again on the same turn." So you get them back at the beginning of the turn of whatever creature goes right after you. This means that if you use Parry (the fighter power) or a...

In case anyone is wondering, my tune "Pistolero" is specifically a Pathfinder song. It's all about the Gunslinger class. Whee! :cool:

Has anybody else noticed that based on the recommended XP per encounter, encounters per day, and XP to level, the party should be levelling up every single day? For example, the DM's Guidelines suggest that a party can handle two Tough combat encounters per adventuring day. At level 1, a Tough...

Here's something I really miss in 4e, and would like to see in 5e: the ability, as a DM, to create an NPC in the same way I'd create a PC, then have it fight my players. What I mean is that in 4e everything other than a PC is treated as a monster: orcs, horses, mayors, guardsmen, BBEGs, etc...

Playtest Report 5/26/12 On Saturday I played the 5e playtest packet for the first time. The adventure was being run by a trio of local DMs who had tried it out Friday night for the first time. We had, I believe, 14 players there for the playtest, so while our table had exactly five, one had...

I haven't played yet-- will tomorrow-- but just from looking at the character sheets I was very surprised by the wizard's at-wills. I had expected from earlier playtest reports that the wizard could get a single at-will as a single feat (Lance of Flame or whatever it was called that was talked...

Dear Grognards, How do you play old school? I understand the elements of the style, but I don't really know where to start in practically DMing in an old-school way. For example... *How do I make a dungeon more than just a bunch of fights? I was reading through Keep on the Borderlands the...

So. There have been many illuminating and entertaining arguments going down on this fine website recently about what sorts of rules we want/don't want/love/hate/etc. Everybody has a different matrix of opinions about what is best in life, and the promise of 5e is of course that we will be able...