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Part of the oddity might arise from how Psionics in D&D cover a lot of ground, from the traditional Telepathy/Psionic Blast as well as Telekinesis and object control powers, to including Body Control/Manipulation/Healing, Elemental Control/Pyrokinesis powers, and other things. The Monk can fit...

This reminds me of the best description I read on the character roles: A striker is there to deal damage. A defender is there to take damage and hold attention. A leader is there to relieve damage and help others. A controller is there to make the DM pull their hair out. "Alright, I have this...

I am downright fascinated way more than I should be about that combo glass/can... :D

Heheh, in our groups we always cast it on the inside of a scroll tube, effectively making a flashlight. :P :D (Also, the classic cast inside of a hooded lantern for an easily dousable light source...)

And neither may I be correct... my time machine is on the fritz again and I can't go back to ask Gary our burning questions. ;) Add to that a third possible leg for our HP stool: the protesting too much might have more to do with the legal strategy/justification for AD&D is not D&D so I don't...

Heh, that's the metaphorical 20 billion dollar question, though maybe it's better to say here the $100 million dollar question. :P From what Chris Sims, Owen Stephens, and others have noted, 4e sold better than PF but that couldn't satisfy those internal targets.... but again, as we've noted...

I'd be curious to read more on what seemed uncomfortable to him... And another (strong?) aspect about this might well stem from overfamiliarity and internalization. As an analogy, this is something that has happened in various martial arts lineages and martial arts books, where certain aspects...

re: how quickly 4e was 'abandoned' by Hasbro/WotC, I'm now wondering if, in the same way that some of the moves that led to the rapid 3.5e revision and the 4e schedule and limitations, ($$ reasons, restricting the 4e SRD/open gaming release, PDF lockdowns, etc), when sales for 4e came in lower...

Amusingly, just the other day I was thinking to myself that while I was playing AD&D during the 1e to 2e switch (and our group did, indeed, switch -- on the day before the books were officially released), I wasn't yet plugged into a wider community of RPGers and so missed any brouhaha or upset...

Huh, that's an interesting trickery idea! In my experimentation thus far, 'centaur' on its own (plus a style) as you did was the only semi-reliable way to get it to draw a centaur, though you end up with no control on what the centaur is doing, carrying, or wearing. Most other prompts have...

The most common in our groups was either hoard in case you were meeting something tougher down the road (and then unload them as the adventuring day was coming to a close if not yet used), or expecting one person to use one daily power per encounter (no set structure for this, ppl would just use...

Thanks to that first image, from this day forward I will forever know there are three central alignments: Neutral, Unaligned, and APE NEUTRAL. (Or Neutral Cockatrice, but ape neutral jumped out at me first before I even saw these were example creatures.... :P Plus I took an overnight flight...

Great, thank you for that confirmation and correction to my embarrassing goof! Silly zeores, getting in where they shouldn't be in my brain... :P

Shoot, I'm not somewhere now where I can do easy research on what the numbers were, but there was either a 500M on the way to 1B, or maybe it was 50M on the way to 100M. Maybe the numbers got Dr Evil'ed along the way... and either way, it was a stringent dictate to all divisions, and as D&D and...

Following on this and Snarf's additions, I concur that the Hasbro dictates ($1B or DIE, essentially) likely played an oversized role on so many things that they ended up compounding in a not-great feedback loop (like how the choice to have no SRD or license tainted the views of some or even...

There are some things that was learned as time went on (no surprise and no slight to the designers -- that's to be expected) that got 'fixed' in some of the E class designs. It'd be fun to do a revised 4e with those also adjusted for the O classes. :)

Hello to a fellow Troubleshooters enthusiast! Not that I've had a chance to play/run it yet, but it is on the docket for this coming year... :) I like 'em both, with only a slight caveat that some of the E classes were still half baked in terms of their execution (and maybe one or two it is...

Another one to add to the list: The "Unaligned" alignment.

Heh, performance is indeed another victim in 5e to the Heisenberg tool/skill overlap. It's so mucked up I sometimes wonder how it got through playtesting. Thinking about it more, suddenly, what do adventurers usually use performance for? To influence someone... which in many ways could be...

Another awesome bit that I've noticed as we have started a new 4e game is 4e's skill list. Definitively compared to what was before, and still when compared to 5e's. Dungeoneering as an adventuring equivalent to Nature; Streetwise for ground-level interactions; Detect magic through the Arcana...