Recent content by NilesB

Because of D&D's high sales expectations I suspect that the second and third options on this poll will be nearly indistinguishable to an outside viewer. A certain amount of panicked flailing about and a quick end to the edition. selling as much as Pathfinder did at it's peak (whenever that peak...

I find that healing is too hard. It paradoxically deprives from the battle the lethality and the sense of danger, Most encounters must be built as a attempt to merely wear down the PCs and force them too expend resources rather than any kind of attempt to actually defeat them or else the game...

Add a feat that eliminates the can't fight up close limit on other reach weapons.

PHB: Original Hardcover Edition First Printing: July 2003, First Paperback Printing: June 2006

The only non-elf PHB race that doesn't match or exceed the dwarf at wizardry is the Half-Orc; I'm tired of people overrating Dwarves. That said, while con(and dex) isn't as big a deal as a bonus attribute as the others, Con is the only stat penalty that is actually a real penalty. While no PC...

And all the others (save possibly dex) are the single most important for a significant subset of PCs. Yeah Grey elves make terrible fighters but they make overpowered wizards, so they are an overpowered race.

A pathetic falsehood; con and dex are the least valuable Attributes to get bonuses to.

Losing composite plating is a bonus, not a penalty.

Ask yourself this: Do I want Monks focusing on Mobility or on Full-Attacking? If mobility, rewrite/replace flurry of blows so that a Monk isn't expected to need full attacks to function offensively. If Full attacking, deemphasize movement powers that the Monk will never have the actions to...

Or you can just keep singing as a free action and take a full attack.

No bardic music ability you would want to use in combat by Bard 9 requires an action to maintain.

For Sorcererors, maybe. For Wizards, definitely not.

Wrong, energy drain's purpose was to make PCs use up some of their stockpile of wishes. Gary said so himself in one of the ask Gary threads. As such I don't think it has a place in any campaign model where the PCs aren't expected to keep a large stockpile of wishes to undo any harm or to solve...

This is not an optimized paladin build.

And are as much Dragons in the sense that D&D uses the term as the Navaho and the Iroquois are natives of the Republic of India. Dragons are defined and ruled by the sin of Avarice, it doesn't make sense to claim that they should be genetically saintly.