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Without getting into nitpicking details, the answer is to consider what tools you give characters to control monsters. Limitations to raising dead foes (you can't raise all creatures, and those you do don't come with all of their abilities intact, an easy limitation) making charm spells have...

Again, you are not reading the quests article very well. The article states the following about the so-called quest cards: One of the suggestions in the 4th Edition Dungeon Master's Guide is to give players a visual, tactile representation of a quest as soon as they begin it. At the start of...

I don't see a reason to assume that an ability possessed by a monster must be available to PCs. Most monster abilities, for instance, will not be using the most basic core rules. Monsters with wings don't mean PCs should be able to grow wings. Giants don't mean giant PCs. Regenerating trolls do...

Actually, you may be assuming things work the way magic items currently do. For all we know, rings are tied to paragon path powers and abilities, for instance, and thus the issue is not that they don't work for level 10 characters, but that the can't. Not that that's what's happening with...

Yes, it will probably be the case that having a Leader in 4e is as important as having a cleric in 1st-3rd edition. However, with second wind rules and at least one Defender (like Paladins) having some healing power through Smites, that may not be a hard and fast rule. After all, the WotC...

Wow. I'm not sure how you could have read that article and come up with less of a reflection of what was written. Not only does it not specify giving xp bonuses, and not only was the "quest card" noted as a sidebar suggestion and not a mechanical requirement (the mechanic was creating a system...

Maybe because adding a sub-mechanic for legacy items adds complexity to learning and mastering the rules. The level limit is a simple mechanic, making ring use a class ability for all character like all other class abilities that unlock at higher levels... like higher BAB, saves, special...

Here's where I put money down that rings in 4E aren't what you are thinking of when you think of rings as magic item. In other words, there will be no simple rings of protection +1. That seems the strong implication in the article -- rings will be Something Different and, hopefully, something...

Actually, the Elric Law/Chaos came in later... the law/chaos in early D&D, like the look of trolls and most of the look and height of elves came mostly from Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions. This is why OD&D also treated Law as good and Chaos as evil, because Anderson treated chaos...

Actually, it sounds like you played the Rules Compendium, which was part of BECMI D&D, and not ADnD 1e. The edition you played was a compiled, cleaned-up version of a parallel rule set that was published after 2e was already out. See, you aren't a grognard. A grognard would publish the sort of...

Actually, it sounds like you played the Rules Compendium, which was part of BECMI D&D, and not ADnD 1e. The edition you played was a compiled, cleaned-up version of a parallel rule set that was published after 2e was already out. See, you aren't a grognard. A grognard would publish the sort of...

To be honest, D&D in any edition has not been a generic fantasy RPG. It has always been hard to directly simulate many fictional settings, and has brought with it a lot of D&D-specific baggage (clerics, Vancian magic, wizards who can't fight or cast healing magic, wearing the heaviest armor you...

Why the computer-game-bashing? It's just another gaming hobby. Not your bag? Great. Frankly, your reaction to computer gaming is similar to the reaction most non-gamers I know have toward role-playing-- that it's terrible waste of money and time that can be spent on "real" pursuits. The tone...

Or maybe they were facing the fact that even though 3.x fighters are much more interesting and flexible than earlier OD&D Fighting men, or 1st/2nd edition fighters, they still have a hard time doing their job-- being the protective barrier between the weaker characters and themselves. The idea...

Of course, you realize that the explanation of hit points being an abstract combination of more factors than just your ability to deal with damage goes back to essays by Gygax, and pretty much has been part of D&D since... well, D&D. Hit points being abstract has been an official part of AD&D...

I'm 39, nearly 40, and have been playing RPGs since I started with AD&D in 1980. And while 3E gave me some good games, it carries with it problems that make it totally unappealing to my mid-30s friends. And most of those are tied to the assumptions of very regular play and large amounts of prep...

I would even add as someone who has worked in higher ed for over 15 years, that universities will not support staff if there is any perception that you have crossed the boundary from purely business interactions. I work as an academic advisor in a large public university, and work with a large...

If she answered "yes", then the next point would be to explain why he was alone. Since the pieces were in the published stories, her answer makes sense. Avoiding the explanation would be he nonsensical answer. The only reason for her to have avoided giving a true answer was a sense that it is...

You expected them to say "the things that influenced my work on 4E D&D most is this campaign I heard a guy was running in Omaha"?

But such claims seem to assume a direct influence, when what I see is a similarity to current comic book art, which takes some influence from anime in layout and composition, and in a few design elements. Across the board, I still see influences that come from comics from the 80s through the...