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This is easily solved. All weapons do 1d8 damage, or 2d6 if you wield them two-handed. After all, if complete balance is the goal, then only complete homogenization will achieve it. For myself, I'm happy with the list as-is.

If *I* were king, I'd rename the site to HalivarWorld, and I would pit posters against each other in the Arena sub-forum, made specifically for the worst, most vitriolic arguments over the most inane, pedantic, and petty matters. All would glorify me in their sigs and despair. Probably better...

Twitter DOES have community; it's just that the walls between affinity clusters is more porous and overlapping. A Twitter user mentally organizes their feed by these affinities. My feed had politics, gaming, software development, and the Washington Redskins. The only thing those affinity groups...

Alignments are no good as a strait jacket. All it is in my games is an indication by the player to me as to how their character will naturally respond to certain things in the game, so that I can plan accordingly. If Joe-Bob (I live in Georgia) is playing a Chaotic Neutral Rogue, I know ahead...

Sadly, I don't think we're as important as we used to be. Half of us range from skeptically intrigued to wildly enthusiastic about D&D, but the other half ranges from not even willing to look anymore to wanting it to die in a fire, from cancer. Heck, even in the lead up to 5E we've seen a...

To be fair, there aren't many ways to make the mundane goods section riveting and exciting. Maybe if they had dragon-mounts for 5,000,000 gp and a picture of a flying paladin strafing roasted goblins? While wailing out some sick licks on a Gibson Flying V guitar?

If you or your DM was a master storyteller from session 1, I would posit that you had unusually lucky circumstance. Many of us had to stumble through a lot of terrible games to become or build up awesome DM's. DM'ing is a skill; it can be taught and learned. Suffer poor DM's well, and in time...

Darvus Andar, Paladin of Helerion Darvus dismounts his horse and looks around the prospective camp area. "We'll need dry wood for the fire," he says. "Dry wood... dry wood..." he repeats, looking around. "You know, maybe if we build a fire, we could dry some wood out, yes? Guys?" Survival...

Scenario A: Tim is a player Player A: Tim's not gonna be here... again. DM: Ok, we can [NPC him/leave him at the inn]. Everyone: (much rejoicing) Scenario B: Tim is the DM Player A: Tim's not gonna be here... again. Player B: Cool! Let's make characters for MY campaign! Everyone: (much...

"Dungeons & Dragons: Casual Gamers not Wanted" Why, that sounds like an awesome way to build the hobby. :erm: EDIT: After the third week, I would expect them to have done that already. Stuff happens. Games go on hiatus. Happens all the time in my group because we are working professionals and...

I can just hear my players now: "Wait, so the name of the town is Fondlin'? Oh lord, hide ya kids, hide yo wife..." Newp newp, not using that name. Ever.

I believe the solution to this conundrum is to preserve the original adventure by making new, custom versions of the monsters therein to better coincide with the party's allowable threat level. If monster construction is as easy as it was in 4E, this should not be a problem at all.

The problem with that is the BAB is only one component of a character's actual effective attack bonus. And not all editions are equal in what they pile on top of the BAB. For instance, 1E, 2E and 3E all are pretty similar on the chart, right? But 1E, minus supplements does not really stack as...

I've been picking up books at my local 2nd & Charles. So far I got the following: Original box set 3E campaign guide 4E campaign guide Grand History of the Realms After reading them, I am more convinced that FR is not my cup of tea. But if I ever need to run it, I got everything I need.

Darvus Andar, Paladin of Helerion "I agree. Let us press on. To an inn, if we can; to shade if we must." Darvus pulls his cloak up to protect him from the rain. Darvus Andar AC: 16 (15 flat-footed, 11 touch) HP: 11/11 CMB: +5 CMD: 16 Fort: +3 Reflex: +1 Will: +1 Perception: -1 Initiative...

I'll go a step further and say I'm perfectly fine with it. In fact, it was the right decision. I have no love for FR, but if you're going to have a meta-setting (and you should), it should be the setting that will have the most draw. Clearly that's FR. And I will do as I have always done...

I did no such thing. It was a hypothetical. IF such people exist (like, more than a couple guys on a forum), WotC should not take them into account.

I am really, really not interested in catering to people that can't just homebrew and be happy. I won't touch FR with a 10 foot pole, but then again, the same goes for Greyhawk, and 3.x didn't exactly give me the vapours. Ignore setting material as you have always done, and homebrew to your...

Welcome to EnWorld, Barcellos! The last I heard about minis was this WizKids press release from February: http://wizkidsgames.com/blog/2014/02/07/wizkids-partners-with-wizards-of-the-coast-for-dungeons-dragons-miniatures/ I don't think they've mentioned any new gargantuan minis yet.

I've seen it done well, in instances where the character was a "6th wheel" and kept their game intrusion to comic relief. As long as the character is not disruptive it can work. It takes a special kind of player though, and there are only one or two people I would trust with such a character; I...