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AC 25 for Grazzt seems way too high to me. The Tarrasque is the only thing near that kind of AC in the Monster Manual and its a unique one of a kind monster that's probably tougher than any demon lord in a physical fight, IMO. Ancient Dragons only have a 21 or 22. I would maybe give Grazzt a...

Yes. Even Mearls confirms it: From ENWorld's front page and Mearl's twitter account.

For those of you with the MM, does it offer up level or CR based guidelines for creating monsters on the fly? For example, does it list HD or HP by level, along with attack bonus by level, suggested AC, etc?

KoTOR 2 was great from a story perspective, but the game was buggy and rushed. If Obsidian is making a 2-4 player co-op BG: Dark Alliance style game, I'll not only buy it, I'll buy the console it will be on just to play it. I haven't dipped into the next gen consoles yet. And when I say co-op I...

David Eddings would be good. Silk is the archetypical Rogue PC in my opinion. Also Raymond Feist is missing. His Midkemia books (Riftwar saga, etc.) and world were actually based off an AD&D campaign. Oh and Michael Stackpole!

How many superiority dice does the Battle Master get? Any flashy/anime/wuxia kind of maneuvers? What are some interesting maneuvers? Any that are damage focused? Any way to recover Superiority dice without taking a 1 hour short rest? I was hoping for a melee warrior class that would let me...

Hey Morrus, how well do you like 13th Age? Its honestly become my favorite D&D, though I do like a lot of what I'm seeing in 5e so far as well.

Its cool to see mearls drop by here but times change. Social media has changed the landscape dramatically. I started posting back when it was Eric Noah's 3rd edition news site, lost my first account in the great forum crash of 2002, and then started a new account with a different screen name...

And Pathfinder's Golarion setting. Its pretty much the proto-typical kitchen sink setting. Which is fine by me. I actually like kitchen sink settings. :) The weird settings where the author's try too hard to be "original" are the ones that find the least traction in my group. I guess we're so...

Sure. If that's part of the feel you want to convey, then keep some of those encounters and rework them as appropriate. But when we played D&D back in the 80's and 90's we used to joke that the dungeon modules we ran were so full of monsters that realistically would never be living one or two...

If you want to run an old school "clear the dungeon" style game, I wouldn't pick 4e, and I love 4e, but its just the wrong tool for the job. BUT, if you really want to use 4e for this style of play, here are my recommendations and it involves borrowing several things from 13th Age. First, the...

I'm going to give you advice that may seem counter-intuitive and that is to dump those trash fights altogether. First of all, step back and ask yourself what is the real purpose of these fights in prior editions, or Pathfinder? And do you need them at all? My answer would be no. They serve only...

Yes, exactly! :) Railroad was a poor choice of words on my part. In my group, the term doesn't have the same negative connotation it does in the wider community. When we play an AP, we know that the story is on rails, and while there may be some deviation by the PCs here and there, ultimately...

I played 2e from the day it was released, till the day WotC published 3e. And yes, considering that the rules were basically tweaked 1e rules, you could absolutely play it in the style you talk about it. But the tone and atmosphere that 2e tried to convey in the fluff with its implied focus on...

From a rules perspective, no. You are quite right. However, the tone and focus of 2e on plot heavy, character focused adventures is far more suited to the natural strengths of the 4e engine, IMO. Whereas 3e's simulationist tendencies are better matched with the sandboxy strategic resource...

As someone who played and still plays 4e quite extensively, let me assure you that is in fact a very story driven RPG at its core. Don't let the tactical combat system fool you. Its a perfect system for running a JRPG style tabletop game ala Final Fantasy (especially Final Fantasy Tactics hence...

This is it, exactly. Emphasis mine. The edition war was really a proxy for irreconcilable play-style differences. I honestly don't a see resolution other than creating two different game lines to appeal to the different styles. I'd say you almost need a game line designed around a 1e/3e...

I'm the opposite. Having mechanical differentiation and support behind my PC's actions makes immersion easier for me. If the visual narrative I attach to my PC is always mechanically distilled down to "make an attack roll" and the attack rolls are the same, that gets real boring for me. Why...

Yes, exactly. I didn't mean that EN World itself has a position.

I wouldn't say "mass" of hate. I think the loudness of the detractors outweighs their numbers, especially on EN World which has always skewed heavily against 4e. Personally, I feel indicting 5e over the inclusion or exclusion of DoaM to be somewhat asinine, but that's me. Thankfully, 13th Age...