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Balance, in a cooperative, collaborative, social activity like D&D is crucial. It allows for everyone around the table (or across the internet) to share the same basic expectations for their usefulness in the game. An imbalanced game is also much more of a hassle to DM because challenges you...

At the risk of sounding harsh: Maybe that's a stupid goal. I know people who've been playing their homebrewed version of second edition for twenty years. They didn't switch to 3E or 4e; they're never going to switch. And that's kinda the point of gaming for some after a while: you find your...

My soul hurts Well, that was... something?:confused: Midway through that thing I almost stopped, and thought about erasing all of my well thought out comments and just writing in my favourite martial powers from 4th edition. I get that they are trying to bring back "the lost folk" with this...

I count myself among the people who "don't care about D&D as much". People who care about D&D are probably the same people who were appalled by the removal of ability score limits for female characters from 1e to 2nd. Gaming is an ever evolving medium. In a sense, it is like art; if it ceases...

I break down what is D&D into X large groups: 1) The game itself: d20 to hit, weapons that deal different dices in damages, elves, dwarves, halflings, fighters, wizards, clerics, rogues, spells, levels and a tight, efficient tactical combat system, AC and other defences. 2) The fiction: a...

Or worse, huge, confused monstrosities that are so broad in what they can do as to become unclear in what they do or flat-out too complex to use by any non-expert DM (I'm looking at you "most outsiders from the old 3e MMs" [but mostly the Marilith and Pit fiend]).

From what I can see in the ''Changes Coming in Essentials'' document and my perusing of Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdom, they haven't changed anything from the revised ability.

Oops ... my mistake! I thought it was included in the october update, but it wasn't. It was just posted on the WotC site. Still, kinda official, I guess.

Actually, in Jhaelen's case, it is. He specifically stated that the rules update from Essentials either replaced or confirmed his house rule. Since the rules update is free and part of the core, what you were hinting at (what I believe is sometimes called the "Oberoni Fallacy") doesn't come into...