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Get your submissions in! Here's my humble offering: The Closet Barbarian: For Your Consideration: Holy Sword best of luck to all the entrants!

I hear you, but when you take Negotiator, you forfeit all rights to complain about damage output later ;P. Stay straight paladin. All of your offensive abilities (smite, smites/day, mount's power, etc.) are level-based. I would therefore take feats that emphasize these abilities. Mounted...

I'd appreciate you swinging by my blog to check it out; I'm trying to inject 3rd edition concept into Basic D&D functionality. The Closet Barbarian: Basic DnD Bard Class

I'm working on getting a BECMI or 1st Ed. campaign going but, being a 3.x devotee, I am loathe to give up skills. I want to incorporate a skill system, but I am undecided. I have seen these versions: * no skills (Basic) * secondary skills only (1st Edition) * Skill slots (Rules Cyclopedia /...

Loving all the responses and I'm glad to hear there are some macro and micro mappers!

One's preference in games, like one's choice in religion or politics, should be an informed affair -- followed by respect for others' choices and a forebearance in prosletyzing.

At first, at least, it's the DM's game. He's going to the trouble to devise the campaign. If the DM says, "gnomes only," for instance, I know what kind of a game I'm getting into, and can choose whether to participate. Good players say to the DM: what kind of character fits into your planned...

The stat is not in a vacuum; my answer to the cap question is therefore, "compared to what?" Earlier additions addressed this issue with a cap around 25, attainable only through magic items and not universally for all ability scores. There were also lots of ways to take magic away from PCs...

You don't have a preference?

What is your preference for scenario formats? Traditional: separate map, descriptive key. Facing pages: map on one page, truncated short-form key on the other. One-page: map with extreme shorthand notes thereon. Put another way, is completeness of information or ease of use your primary...

Presumably the PCs' souls, alignment, and personalities are still intact. So perhaps the relics' defenses are keyed to keeping away evil. Repulsion effects, for instance, or maybe riddles or tests of character that evil creatures would fail. Perhaps the defenses of the relics include good...

I like the map. Well done. What sort of specific feedback are you looking for here?

This. PrCs need to be linked to the gameworld so they don't become an exercise in game-breaking.

Haven't read the whole thread, so I apologize in advance if I'm repeating someone else's point. This potion reminds me a lot of Marvelous Pigments, illusions, wishes, and other DM-interpretive items. On the one hand, you are encouraging PC creativity with this item, which is a good thing. On...

My observation/epiphany is that, for me anyway, the battlemat becomes the center of attention. It becomes the "game board" and injects the "game" element into the proceedings, taking me away from the theater-of-the-mind aspect of gaming. I also find I pay attention better if I'm not looking at...

Does anyone play in an exploration-based campaign featuring mapping of the wilderness and underground sites (either on hex/graph paper or freehand)? Or are you in a "let the battlemat handle the mapping" sort of game? What would it take to get you interested in exploration and mapping? Can a...

I want to thank many of you for making my points better than I did. Seriously. :) The interesting part of this is that I think I'm alone in my opinion in the game group. Many of them are D&D Miniatures players and they really love the 'gamist' bits. I agree that learning 3.x is no easy...

I appreciate all the responses. My intent was not to inflame the Edition Wars so much as to see what others' experience was after playing 4e for awhile. I wanted to like 4e. I have been in the same gaming group for 9 years. The last thing I wanted to do was quit the group because i can't...

I really enjoyed reading SWSE and I hoped that 4e would follow suit, but for the most part it did not. I thought Talents were a great mechanic to allow differentiation between characters of the same class. Your other points are valid. I was trying (and failing, apparently) to articulate why...

My initial impression of the marketing was that it suffered from horrible timing. Once they announced the edition switch, there was a 6-9 month lag time until release. During that time, they were essentially clearing out their production calendar of 3.5 stuff. I would bet that D&D product...