Recent content by matthulhu

I can't agree with fighters needing anything special, anything identifying, or ... Anything besides a weapon, some armor, and a big hit die. Well, and good to-hit bonuses. As someone who plays fighters almost exclusively, I've never felt they needed much; less is more, as usual. Fighters get...

I dislike the idea of Paladins that are devoted to a deity- or to anything else besides Lawful Good. When I hear "Paladin of _______" I start to retch a little. "Don't say a god's name, don't say a god's name, AH GOSH DARN IT!" Ideally, Paladins aren't even "devoted to Lawful Good." They are...

Specifically in the playtest and our discussions about it here, it comes to my mind that a lot of people seem to want to use D&D as a game of generic fantasy (or, sometimes, not even a game, but a storytelling tool, which I don't even want to start in on, God help me). This seems to drive a lot...

I was riffing on the general concept of rolling for HP (as per the title of the thread) and not directly commenting on the playtest characters (which have HP totals that made me nearly choke when I saw them, but I'll be running them as-is before coming to a workable conclusion). Using the whole...

This would make perfect sense- if the "fixed HP" are simply equal the max value of the hit die. Plenty of DMs over the years have done this anyways, especially if we're talking about first-level characters. But really, this doesn't even need a "module." It needs a single phrase in the PHB. "At...

I can't believe people worry about someone cheating on a hit point roll (and some of those same people are okay with a static HP boost that is larger than any hit die max result). If you are okay with big HPs, do you really care if someone fudges their HP roll? More importantly, why aren't...