Recent content by neroden

My usual suggestion is as follows: Add a "Base Spellcasting Level" which stacks, much like Base Attack Bonus. Full spellcasting classes increase it every level, "partial" spellcasting classes like the Paladin and Ranger increase it more slowly, non-spellcasting classes increase it most slowly...

It sort of makes sense to me that you could speak with Str 0 but not with Dex 0. Heh. That will be my ruling for my campaign in future....

>don't know about you, but in the last two >years I've been playing 3e, having more >than 3 combat encounters in one day is >very rare. Usually it's no more than 2 in >one day. Well, very different campaign style here! We generally have at least three, usually four or even five. Having 2 or...

> 3.) What? you don't have HASTE??? How >many players who had mages heard this >over and over again? How dare they not >take haste as a 3rd level spell? Does it >matter that the spell might not fit the >dmages "flavor" that the player was >trying to create? Don't get me started on >sorcerer. I...

While Haste may have been too powerful, it was always a tough question whether to take it or Fireball, so from my point of view it was perfectly balanced at third level. At fourth or even fifth level I'd still take it sometimes. Hopefully if they've turned Haste into "Extra Attack" they've put...

My considered opinion On SKR's actual topic: I agree that the "immune to X, Y, Z, resistant to everything else" trend is no fun. On the topic of CR: Tactics and adjustment notes for each monster would be invaluable for any DM running a monster for the first time. I'd like to see, for...

You said it better than I did. :-) The computer analogy is rather good, too. We're all in favor of a profitable D&D division. The short-term focus on individual products' profit margins is detrimental to the profitability of the line as a whole. Giving Hasbro a set of metrics which are...

Margins... stupid. The real problem is that "maximizing margins" is a *stupid* business plan for a publishing business. I repeat, a *stupid* business plan. You can't expect that any given book will have the same sales as any previous book. Book sales aren't predictable in that manner. And...