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Darvus has x2 trail rations. How long does 2 pounds last? My character would definitely share.

The curse of the beta-tester. It's the #1 reason why I avoid participating in beta's if I can. I want to savor every release in all it's glorious newness.

I'll go ahead and break my NDA for this one, since it's so close: Pandas have a bounce speed of twice their normal movement. Pandas have a +4 to Constitution. To balance this extremely high modifier, every other ability score only gets a +2. In the hands of a panda, greataxes are 2d6+1. Pandas...

Those look like perfect stats for a bo staff, which would be perfect for monks; smaller and less unwieldy than a quarterstaff.

Oh, right! That was it! No euphemisms here, none at all... :blush: EDIT: OH! Epic face-palm. I just got the joke...

A small number, but there is significant disagreement, and no consensus. If there was a "fixed" version, we'd argue over that, too. I suggested early on that the critics just homogenize the damage values as a house-rule and move on.

d4/d6 is for the walking stick that they called quarterstaffs in previous versions. The quarterstaff of antiquity is a 9-10 foot long killing implement that can crush plate armor with one wack. IMHO, it is correctly stat'd now (except it should not be wieldable 1-handed and should be martial!)

It's helpful for measuring their respective... uhh... shoe sizes.

The important thing is that we don't have Design by committee, with too many voices clouding and complicating the design process or Lone wolves off on a silo'd project without oversight or internal feedback. For this reason I prefer, a small, tight core of devs with extensive playtest and...

I see nothing that this setting lacks that is necessary for a fun, engaging campaign. Actually referencing the events and protagonists of the cartoon is unnecessary; take the background places and people and fill in the blanks, and you have the makings of a fun game-world.

The quarterstaff should be default 2-handed. There is no way someone is wielding a 8-9 foot pole with one hand.

I'll say the same applies to the greatclub.

Darvus Andar, Paladin of Helerion Darvus watches Devlin pitch his tent with a small amount of regret. I should get one of those some day, he thinks to himself. He plucks another piece of straw off of his cloak and is reminded of the terrible ride he had to the city in the first place. "Well...

I'm a grog who uses a #2 pencil and a sheet of paper... but that paper is printed by PCGen or DDI Adventure Tools. This is the next step in the evolution. It is inevitable. We can shake our fists and rage impotently against the terrible march of progress, but this is the future of gaming.

The issues I'm taking is that it isn't a "trap" choice because it isn't really an awful option. We're quibbling over percentages and +1's. We are well and truly in the zone of pure min-maxing. Let's save the "trap choice" nomenclature for truly, obviously bad and terrible options. Like 3.x...

I like that the quarterstaff is no longer stat'd like a walking stick; agree that wizards should not be proficient with it. I will house-rule that wizards are proficient in 1d4 walking sticks. Quarterstaff is a martial weapon, not a simple one. D&D history is just wrong on this.

If each weapon shines in different places, then it is balance without homogenization. If it's being wielded by a wizard, sure. If you put a 10 Str on your two-handed Fighter, then you have bigger optimization issues than sword-vs-axe.

Or why it's suddenly an issue NOW.

That's not what he said or how he said it. EDIT: Why did you throw in the "lol"?

It's a mundane weapon table. What were you looking for? Well, 1st Edition is as early as I've ever gone; sounds like that idea was chucked out pretty early on.