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QFT. I always admired the (A)D&D school system for grouping spells by their method of operation rather than some arbitrary elemental descriptor, like most competitors. It was thematically very appropriate, because spells that do similar things should be related. It wasn't perfect -- for...

Insight bonuses stem from precognition, competence from, well, competence. However, I do think the number of bonus descriptors should go down -- perhaps up to seven? Currently, the SRD contains seventeen different bonus types (and that is leaving "unnamed" bonuses aside, which are just the...

Without using Greek or Latin roots? Then it gets a little constrained. Usually they're named after patron saints, places, or founders... League of Luskan Fraternity of St. Cuthbert Mordenkainenites The Poor Mages of the Temple Stuff like that. Unfortunately, place-names are somewhat...

...Serpent Eye cabalists... ...mages of the Iron Sigil... ...Servants of the Hidden Flame... ...Golden Wyvern initiates... ...Emerald Frost adepts... ...Stormwalker theurges... I certainly hope I'm assuming poorly, because that would mean I have nothing to worry about, but consider the actual...

Yes, except there's a bit of a difference between a talent-tree (which could be interpreted as being disciplines within the wizardly arts) and what we have on that article, which specifically mentions Wizards of the <whatever>. Now, maybe I'm reading too much into this, but this implies a...

For me, staves bring to mind a wizard drawing a circle over his head with its tip, and as it travels, power gathers at the tip; then he brings it down, slamming the power into the ground and creating a large chasm from the point of impact to under the hapless target. And maybe flames come up...

It has to do with the division in Tolkien between Calaquendi and Moriquendi. I guess the Calaquendi become Eladrin, rather than "high" Elves? If it's so, it's just a question of nomenclature. If one doesn't like the particular use of the name, just read "Tuatha Dé Danann" or somesuch...

Poser items. Real Men(TM) use Sword, Cup, Coin and Baton ;) Also, I think this change is positive -- magic weapons give characters different flavour (just ask the producers of the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon), which magic foci would do, as well. Swapping the foci around can change the...

True, except then why not call it Greyglitter? This way everyone should know how to pronounce it (to the extent that people can know how any word is pronounced in English, anyway: one never has more than 80% confidence) and the etymology is plain. If you prefer to import the word, however...

Sorry, (3/4 * 33,000)^(1/3) = 29,1424 (29'1.7") radius... which gives you a yardstick to measure whether 4e is "still D&D": Is 4e Fireball weaker than 3e? If it isn't, it's not really D&D... Fireball must be nerfed every single edition! My logic is flawless... :p

It may be an artifact of me starting out in 2e, but I always thought it was interesting to have a Good-aligned deity of magic. It broke the pattern of every other single D&D pantheon I've seen, where the deity of magic is constrained to be LN or N... And yes, colour me unimpressed by yet...

I myself don't have a problem about my players not having heroic deaths for their characters: Those are usually more like mercenary bastards than heroes, anyway. It's a group thing, though; the players themselves often like to laugh about PC deaths after the fact, inventing funny...

Hadn't they told it way back when this whole Role schtick started that the Divine Strikers would be the Rangers? Has that changed? As for Martial Controller, I probably think that some sort of tripmonkey or grenadier (ninja?) is a better bet than the Knight (who is just a mounted Fighter...

Horn of Blasting. Actually, there's a rumour that prolonged exposure to specific infrasound frequencies can decompose the glue that keeps our cells stuck together, so that would be a particularly nasty sonic (rather vibratory) damage. Of course, it may be false, but so are dragons...

You know, there's a reason why "adventurer" is a slur in most Western languages. Adventurers, as a whole, are a very small step away from brigands. Especially the D&D ones... so if I can leverage the story to make them do the right thing, then I certainly will. They can certainly look after...

I apologise; that's what I meant to say. The probability to hit increases by a factor of (1 + 1/[Lvl]), which is what I meant to say. It is what the quote I posted on my original post alluded to, anyway. Well, I guess I don't have anything else interesting to add. I'll mull this over a bit more.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but a Fighter improves his to-hit probability by +1 per level. That would imply a logarithmic function, wouldn't it? d[BAB]/d[Lvl] = 1/[Lvl] ==> [BAB] = ln [Lvl] + C (People who never took Calculus, please ignore the preceding paragraph) Similarly, HP increase...

I don't know; I will reserve my opinion on the girl, but what I really think is, you're missing the point. It doesn't take the disrespect of one law (or one specific law) to turn you from Lawful to Chaotic. What matters is, do you believe you're better off with or without laws? Or better, Is...

That's great! Now think of the per encounter abilities as needing one minute sleep/rest before being replenished :)

This is from someone who owns neither, so take this with as many grains of salt as you like, but: Class ability is something every member of a class gets (e.g.: Wizardly magic, familiar, Sneak attack, Turn Undead) at a specific level, but if your class doesn't give it, you can't get it (unless...