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Anyone know where the "half-elves are social, good at Diplomacy" idea came from? Is it somewhere in fantasy literature? Because I'm drawing a blank here.

Don't forget that GR is a small company. I doubt Chris Pramas can afford to take a risk on something he hasn't seen. What he's doing sounds sensible, not prejudiced. If I were a small publisher with limited resources, I'd seen Wotc's $5,000 fee as a bit of a slap in the face. $5,000 is a lot to...

My impression is that NPC creation isn't going to be as handcuffed to class levels as it was in 3e, where to get a dragon with the ability to say, hypnotize with its gaze, you had to take a few levels in wizard and suddenly--he's got other random spells for no apparent reason, keeps a spellbook...

Getting back to the guy who wants to play the Sherwood Forest campaign... my understanding was that you won't be in the situation where someone has to play the cleric, because all the classes have the ability to heal themselves to some degree in 4e. Isn't that the main reason a party "needs" a...

You mean you're not charged by the click? Crazy.

A brief note that saying "I want Native American mythology" is a bit like saying "I want European mythology". Unless you want the cultural equivalent of the Holy Grail, Koschei the Deathless and Valkyries running around together, you're better off picking a particular cultural group and running...

This is a really interesting look into how different people run their games, not to mention gaming preferences. Arguments about realism aside, it seems to me that if we're right about what they're doing in 4e, you lose the random element of stumbling into traps, but you also lose the plodding...

Dang, I was really hoping this thread was going to be all about players who say, "I leap into the air and stab my spear over his shield" rather than "I swing... does 22 hit?" Interesting discussion though.

I SAID it was awesome, what more do you want from me?!?

Dude, you just failed your Bluff check. :)

I'm about equal parts DM/player, and I'm all for tougher first-level PCs. The main thing I hate about low-level play is how often you end up fighting varmints, for lack of better monsters. But I love low-level play, where saving up 1,000 gold pieces or finding a cache of masterwork weapons just...

It's awesome that the poster who hates the word gish on account of its obscurity used the word shibboleth.

I'm still thinking about Elven Accuracy. An earlier poster guessed that you're required to keep your re-roll in order to stop players from rolling well (a successful hit, for example) and then using Elven Accuracy to try to improve that to a critical. That's a great use of the power! Do you...

elven accuracy Why do you think they require you to take the 2nd roll, even if it's lower? I like the new elf. Very neat. I don't understand why people care whether elves are immortal or just very old, but I have a feeling that's one of those emotional issues like whether you think you should...

ry (and anyone else), are there any AP posts anywhere about E6? I'd like to see how things change and what kinds of games people are running with it. Nice work, btw! Really got me excited about running D&D again!