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I keep post-it notes in my old AD&D books on certain pages just for times like these... And I'll forego the annoying BIG FONT in lieu of bolding for emphasis. 50/50? Not according to Gary, who thought that hit points equating solely (or even significantly) to physical damage was silly...

Were the rats in the Burning Hands' area of effect? Because if they were, they should have died since the bare minimum (with a successful save and the lowest possible damage roll) that the spell can do is 2 damage, which is more than their 1 hit point. If they were in range and the DM had them...

Sucks to be us?

That's a rather disingenuous comparison. That 2-page 1st-level wizard also has another 3-4 pages of spells you need to play the class, but aren't included in the character sheet. I could make the Essentials Fighter sheet even smaller if I went the same route and removed all of the actual details...

The Fighter doesn't get extra actions every round either. At 2nd level, he gets 2 extra actions per day. The Cleric can cast Spiritual Weapon and get the equivalent of 10 extra actions (a free extra attack every round for 1 minute/10 rounds). And that's just from a single casting. At 1st level.

Sort of. The Guardian theme is a crappy Defender, and the Slayer is a laughable attempt at the Striker (considering it's basically a feature built into a Defender power in 4e).

I wonder who thought that allowing spells to have nearly-unrestricted bonus stacking was a good idea after two editions where type-restricted bonus stacking caused problems.

No. Not just no, but HELL NO. Angels and Demons getting together for a drink in a bar and debating alignment philosophy is NOT the default for D&D. Getting that angel to help you kick in that demon's face is. No offense to anyone that likes/loves Planescape, but it's heavy-handed philosophical...

So, you're saying that a non-magical healing class cannot work without healing 1/4 hit points and having each character have a daily limit to the amount of times they can be healed in such a way? So, it would be completely and utterly impossible to create a non-magical healing class in 3e that...

Going on 4 years and and people's complaints about healing surges show they still don't understand what healing surges are. Healing surges are NOT self-healing or non-magical healing. They are a pacing and scaling healing mechanic. They give you a scaling value to determine how much you heal...

Heh. I know a girl who is in that and she lives with her grandmother.

I think rating optional modules as either Basic or Advanced is a good nod to the historical split, but without splitting the game into two versions commercially. Basic modules could be characterized by simplicity of use, lighter mechanics, and a higher likelihood to simply build off mechanics in...

There should a big section in the introduction to the PHB about how not all options (rules/races/classes/feats/items/skills/whatever) will be available to them depending on the tone of the DM's games. Then talk about a few examples... a DM wants a humans-only game for a more authentic S&S...

Also, WotC is a wholly owned subsidiary of a publicly traded company. They have a lot of legal landmines to deal with when it comes to sharing information that Paizo doesn't have to deal with.

Wow. This bodes very well for this upcoming edition.

While modern day people talk about subtle miracles, Moses and Biblical miracles are definitely nowhere near a model for that philosophy. We're talking about a guy that got marching orders from a talking, burning bush. Who parted the Red Sea. Who called down plagues of locusts, flies, diseases...

Also can be incredibly boring, particularly when you have to sacrifice that action for something small, like opening a door, or drinking a potion, or retrieving an item from your pouch. Or, let's say you don't move, and that move action is now useless since its only use is movement (rather than...

That is how I interpret it, too. Either you pick a Background, or you get free skill selection; you pick a theme, or you get free feat selection. In addition, a DM might say "Hey, you can customize one feat after picking a theme, or drop one Background skill and pick up any one of your choice."...

While I would love to see a Greyhawk Campaign Setting that draws on the original materials, I don't think slapping Gary's name on it when he's not directly involved in it is a good idea. It just smacks of cynical opportunism to me.

This is pretty blatantly lopsided. You're comparing one edition's entire lifespan to the point in another edition when they opted to begin working on the next edition. A more accurate comparison would be that 3.X/3.5 was 5 years old when they decided it needed to be replaced with 4e, compared to...