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I expect to do that in my next campaign too. In my current Brotherhood of Rangers game, all the PCs have at least 6+Int per level...

I found the cross-class skill penalty to be too severe for my tastes. Between that and the other issues I had, I ended up creating house...

The only Forgotten Realms product that I ever bought was Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue. Just not interested in any of the other...

I still like the 13th Age solution: hp thresholds for crowd control spells. There is some of this in 5e with sleep and color spray, but...

It's the same problem as Magic: The Gathering. It's often a better play to nullify your opponent than to defeat them quickly (unless you...

The three most important things about 3.x that brought me back after drifting away from 1e & 2e were, in order of decreasing importance...

Well, part of that was because 3e was the edition that often fished people back in who had long since drifted away, and what brought...

I responded to the poll back when but didn't post a comment. So now I'll post that I found 2e to be a modest advance over AD&D 1e, and...

1. A reveal that the supposed fantasy campaign is actually post-apocalypse, which is something I can sometimes admire from a distance...

Id say that the biggest problem is that the dmg section quoted by @Maxperson really only applies to tier1 PCs and breaks down as players...

This review makes me think that all versions of turning are way too fiddly. If I were designing it from scratch, I'd probably make it a...

I'll add: I'm unfond of critical hit systems in general, and while I'm not quite annoyed enough by the 3.5e version to reflexively apply...

I don't want them to get crits on undead, but I do want them to get their class damage bonuses (favored enemy and sneak attack)...

Rare <-> Medium Rare. If you go beyond that, its likely a sin.

I voted "no apocalypse" but it somewhat depends on how one defines "apocalypse." Is medieval Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire...