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The best argument for a silver standard is that by about third level in a normal gold standard game, PCs can't even be bothered to pick up unattended silver coins. Of course, an easier solution might be to simply dispense with copper and silver entirely.

That's where the bickering comes in.

It's tough to gauge just from the trailer, but it looks like they've once again managed to make a D&D movie that bears little relationship to the core D&D experience: a small, diverse band of characters exploring some underground environment or ruin. The second movie did this to some extent, at...

I voted yes, but I'm mainly thinking of druids in 3.x. Prior editions (and 4e) did not have the problem to nearly the same degree, and even in 3.x, I never saw the wizards and sorcerers really dominate like the druids did. I bloody hate 3.x druids.

I don't know. I mean, rapid response is always good thing in Internet land, and it's good to keep your customers informed, but this isn't a bank announcing it just lost a truck full of unencrypted tapes, or an oil company responding to a spill somewhere. We're talking about a small unit of a...

For me at least, the monsters after about level 7, plus most/all solos (ETA: until MM3 and later). That's the sort of thing I am most concerned about with 5e. If they need to change the wording of a few feats with errata, I don't really care. But I want (demand) that the basic math be...

It's a famous misprint of "% Lair" found in the OD&D books. A lot of people didn't realize it was a misprint, and read it as exactly that.

Fair enough, but are you arguing that if the PC is petrified after a 2-3 round process, it ought to be permanent? My argument in favor of increasing save-or-die is that I feel that the designers went overboard in reducing the swinginess of combat, and have neutered a lot of interesting...

Hate is too strong a word for me, but personally, I find it boring. I know the idea is that it somehow ratchets up the tension when it's in slo-mo like this, but I never found that to be the case in practice. In my 4e game, the PCs have multiple ways to get bonuses to saves over the course of...

For the most part, yes, but I'd like the saves and the sucking to be harder (insert joke here). I'd also like the time to be compressed -- I don't want it to take 2+ rounds for the medusa to petrify the PC. Give the PC a few chances to escape it, but all on his turn or within the span of a...

I don't have my Trailblazer rules handy, and haven't actually played with them in any case, but I seem to recall that they allow PCs to spend action points (not quite the same as 4e action points) when faced with save or dies. The action point grants you another save, I think? Not sure how...

Another vote for including some save or dies (or be petrified, or polymorphed into a toad, or whatever). Not as many as 1e or 3e, perhaps, but some. I find that a great many 4e monsters just aren't scary enough, and I think simple hit point attrition is tedious. I do agree with those asking...

I'd be down with something like this, and also with Elf Witch's suggestion to keep Concentration from being an easy roll. I'd like to see mechanics that allow the fighter and wizard to be a little more distinct than they were in 4e, but give the fighter a boost from his 3e incarnation.

I strongly agree on interrupting spellcasters. That's the best solution for reining them in, I think. Can you elaborate a little more on the WFRP method? It's a casting roll of some kind? Like Spellcraft, sort of?

Most of my list has already been covered by others, but I want to stress the blandness of many powers (both monsters' and PCs'). I also think 4e went way overboard in reducing the swinginess of combat. Hit point attrition can be very, very dull, especially when monsters have so many bloody hit...

Oh, definitely. One way to mitigate that is to make combat move much more quickly. OK, so you were petrified in round 1, but if the combat is over in 10 minutes, it's less of a big deal. I'm not voting for moving the pendulum all the way back to 3e (or 1e), but I think 4e has swung too far...

What I've learned is that sharply reducing the number of effects, conditions, and save-or-dies sounds really good on paper, but in practice leads to really boring monsters. I think there has to be a middle ground between a banshee TPKing your party in one round, and having a medusa who...

I've read all of the strips, and I can barely keep the characters straight anymore, let alone the story.

I wish Essentials really was 4.5, but it isn't. With 3.0/3.5, you had a clean(ish) break, a whole new set of core rules that provided a complete game. Essentials is something more than just supplementary material, but neither is it really a complete set of new core rules. While it brought...

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