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How, then, can the game model the infliction and curing of injuries such as being shredded by a housecat or clonked in the head by...

Why can't my 200 year old PC elf who did that do those things? You get to pick ages, and sometimes even start at higher level. Not...

Or start my PC out as a member of that faction in the first place. Chooseable backgrounds and all, remember? :) And here's the...

Gad, those are the last things we need! There's already way too many of each. Agreed on more equipment. Epic play rules are something...

Man wouldn't it be something we got the return of the Illusionist class? Full circle!

Another such game-first restriction that's always been there without real complaint is you can only have one magic ring on each hand...

Yep. We had to re-do percentile strength for Fighters to make it work, though; each bonus increment within the 18.xx range became its...

After every encounter or two? Maybe if those encounters are layering the treasure on thick and deep and if one is giving xp for...

Which raises another question: are spell schools within a class even worth keeping as a concept? With two exceptions, I say no they're...

Encounter design has been eff-around-and-find-out all along, even with guides in each edition that supposedly help you do it. My idea...

The comment about UA feeling like a collection of Dragon articles is dead on. I know probably most of you know it was but for the...

Some of the new spells were highly overpowered and flat-out broken as written. Others were nearly useless. Ditto for the new magic...

Well, if you can get right to the end of the untrained level you train for the first one, go out and beat up someone in a back alley to...

OK, I'll play. :) Note this isn't necessarily how I'd actually sequence the books' contents, it's just what ought to be in each one...

Spells in one book, sure. Items and traps in another, though, as the target audience is different: that's DM-side material, not...