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    New player asking for some advice/help, please. 3e vs 4e. Which one is for me?

    Umm, if you are DM who has run his campaign up to that level you know. If you don't, you aren't ready to competently run a high level game and your experienced players will trounce you.
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    Arcane Power: How long before the pirated copy appears

    WotC Pres has apparently lived in a cave over the last 15 years. He hasn't learned the obvious lessons from the music industry debacle.
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    How much do characters know about game mechanics?

    That's too funny! Not relevant, but, funny nonetheless.
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    Player Owned Castle

    Wow, you're generous. A wish doesn't free someone who has drawn the Void card.
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    Beholder eye stalks

    A place to start: From the 1st Ed Monster Manual: "...Atop the sphere are 10 eyestalks, while in its central area are a great eleventh eye and a large mouth filled with pointed teeth. The body is protected by a hard chitinous covering. The creature's eyestalks and eyes are also protected...
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    Beholder eye stalks

    The way hit points are defined, you didn't actually damage a high level monk, so yes parts are unrealistic. It is important to have certain fundamentals grounded in what we can understand without explanation though.
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    How much do characters know about game mechanics?

    Right, I never liked the Barbarian rage thing. Clerics & Paladins are using deity granted powers and are governed by things that don't follow physical laws like swinging a sword so, aren't relevant to the example.
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    Beholder eye stalks

    Or, it could happen like real life when a power line worker that wears a metalic conductive suit that causes the electricity to take the path of least resistance to ground and thus having NO effect on the body...
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    How much do characters know about game mechanics?

    Because it is assumed that magic has its own rules that are different than the natural laws that govern muscle use...
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    The Sandbox And The Grind

    No version does. 4.0 does have auto encounter adjustments based on the power level of PCs that don't mesh with the concept though.
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    The Sandbox And The Grind

    Well, when the DM creates the campaign world, he has created & placed the dragon. Dragons get more powerful as they age, so depending on when the PCs go there, he'll be what level is logical and consistent with the time that has passed. In a sand box campaign, that's how it is determined...
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    How Important is Magic to Dungeons and Dragons? - Third Edition vs Fourth Edition

    This wasn't just 3rd Ed. 1st Ed DMG: "All magic and cleric spells are similar in that the word sounds, when combined into whatever patterns are applicable, are charged with energy from the Positive or Negative Material Plane. When uttered, these sounds cause the release of this energy, which in...
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    How Important is Magic to Dungeons and Dragons? - Third Edition vs Fourth Edition

    Why would someone do that when the casting system was based on a different fantasy world, not Tolkien's? Why wouldn't they also say that is not how Yoda does it?
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    Armor Check Penalty for Rhino Hide Armour?

    As it is a specific magic armor you use the description as written in the DMG. Remember, there is no listing for mundane Rhino armor to contradict...
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    The Sandbox And The Grind

    Actually, it is. From the very 1st descriptions of a campaign world, Greyhawk. Sandbox RPGs are kin to world simulations, and attempt to present a seamless world in which to play. So, yes. You create a world, Smaug lives in mountain X. If a 1st level party chooses to go there they will meet...
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    New player asking for some advice/help, please. 3e vs 4e. Which one is for me?

    I'd hate to sandbox a campaign where the NPCs planet wide, morph every time PCs grow in power.
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    The Sandbox And The Grind

    :lol:
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    Player Owned Castle

    Give him another "deck" and make sure he pulls the lose all wealth card...
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    Know Vulnerabilities and Regeneration

    No. From the spell: "Vulnerabilities include anything that causes the creature more than the normal amount of damage" So, per the spell it wouldn't tell you anything about a trolls regeneration. For instance.
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