Recent content by Goblyn

Wait, what? Who lays eggs on a long rest?

I always figured that halfling(or gnome) - human - orc was paralleled by goblin(or kobold) - hobgoblin - bugbear. So, in my mind hobgoblins are the 'humans' of the goblinoids.

You see an Onocentaur, I see a satyr with back problems; which would make sense given those huge ... pecs, but would also go a long way to explain the nasty temper. ;)

A Hearthstone player named Blitzchung(sp?) won the grandmasters and in his post game interview put on a gas mask declared his support of the Hong Kong protesters. In response Activision/Blizzard revoked his $10, 000 worth of winnings and banned both him and the two casters from participating in...

Just what the title says. My perspective on all aspects of both playing and DMing has improved immeasurably due to this site. I get to benefit from all sorts of points of view and creative input into anything even remotely DnD related, and can trust that for the most part discussions are civil...

Thanks for the quick replies! Looks like I'll have to give tha adventure book a closer read-through.

My group played it this weekend after the FLGS finally got their poop in a group and honoured a passed-over pre-order(fume ... RAGE ... snort). Although we're staunch 3e players it looked promising and we gave it a shot. Good game. Some of the rules took a couple of re-reads, but it was just as...

Plants?

Well, it seems like in 4e the capabilities of different classes(arcane/divine/martial) aren't going to be so hugely disparate as in 3.x, so, depending on how it turns out, this may even be a non-issue. As always, we have to wait and see. Curses!

Trinumerous, the Unarmed One.

Agreed. While extremely hak-n-slash, Diablo2 had some excellent and very yoink-worthy ideas; skill trees not being the least of which(anyone else notice 'item sets' in MIC? Diablo2 did that too.)

Auras. I don't dislike the idea of auras, but the more situational modifiers to keep track of when the situation(distance from aura-producer) can change quite frequently are annoying to keep track of. So, rather, not so much auras, but small, obscure and fleeting situational modifiers. And...

Really? From what I've seen about 4e, compared to earlier edtions, it seems to me that 4e is not metal enough. I don't think there can be such thing as TOO metal. There is just enough or not enough.

I recently had a discussion with Hypersmurf about the charge maneuvre and when a character who chooses to do so is considered charging. The issue that apparently is not supposed to exist with charge explicitly does for Summon Monster spells. One who casts summon monster is casting a spell and...

If it must, then it's going to have to without some of us who have invested so much into it as it already is and has been.