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easy one. temporary hps are that extra endurance, adrenaline rush, morale boost or whatever the 4e warlord is supposed to hand out except you know it beforehand so you don't describe a blow as damaging until you lose actual hps (ie meat). so you don't have to wait for the next healing surge to...

having an established field leader was never a "thing" in my experience and the occasional, nominal leader could be any class. group dynamics should be decided on a case by case basis and not by the fact that one player decided to play the Caesar class. sure, some groups may not mind the implied...

I'd say it was the most divisive. in concept, in its mechanics, even the name rubbed many people the wrong way. I simply don't see Julius Caesar or Napoleon as dnd adventurers. they were only Caesar and Napoleon (the archetype) when they had troops to lead (or empires to rule). unless you have...

I've heard the "discharge" explanation before but to be honest I still find it counterintuitive, be it for clerics or wizards, this is why I mostly use spell point variants that can be fully explained as fatigue. when I really have to play Vancian I leave it at "magic/gods work in mysterious...

sure, the gnome doesn't have a clear niche between elves, dwarves and halflings (I've merged the gnome and halfling into one sneaky and slightly obsessive race imc. works pretty well), I can't say it's my first pick as a player either (although I'd play one over a dragonborn or even dwarf any...

I'm fine with the stripped down abilities but I can't say I like the lore in general, which make the first question difficult to answer. I think devils and demons should have truly different goals and attitudes or be merged already (the chaotic demons just being rebel factions working outside...

I've never felt the 3e sorcerer was that different from the wizard conceptually. book vs blood, specialty vs bloodline... this is mostly cosmetic to me. the real difference was always in the casting mechanic. As long as I have a viable spell-point alternative for every kind of wizard and...

they are? I thought Gygax didn't intend them to be pig-faced like they were drawn in the Monster Manual or the cartoon but he still thought of them as somewhat porcine (I believe he said the gamorreans from SW were close enough), while the hobgoblins were more ape-like. I don't know about orcs...

my goblins and hobgoblins are greenish grey (except in desert environments where they're more brownish) and closely related to orcs. bugbears are the distant, hairy relative. that said, I like the new art except for the long hair (ponytails and pulled back Legolases are way overdone in...

3e multiclassing by far. no matter how flexible classical/gestalt/hybrid are at creation it just doesn't make sense to me to be stuck on one path. the idea behind 4e's multiclass feats also had its merits but it was far too restrictive (too costly, some class features were off-limits...) and I...

I prefer things to scale through spell level but (like many other things) it works better with spontaneous casting (ie 3e sorcerer or spell points).

I skipped 4e but actually liked a lot of the new lore (some artistic choices are another story though). and even if I hated it but liked the mechanics I would probably have played the game because this kind of fluff is very easy to change. as for the original question I voted sea. to me, a big...

I don't. I don't care what it's called but I need a class (point based, ideally) to completely replace the Wizard (and every pseudo-Vancian caster for that matter), which won't work if spontaneous casters come with their own spell-lists and too much hardwired flavour (like 3e psionics for...

3e, by far. sure, it could use a few tweaks, like a caster level for a better synergy between spellcasting classes or giving fewer goodies at 1st level to discourage cherrypicking, prestige classes were a mess, too... but in my experience it was still more balanced than 1e/2e multiclassing and...

3.5 with Unearthed Arcana's "spellpoints" and "armor as damage reduction" optional rules and a bunch of minor tweaks (mostly to races, classes and campaign related stuff).

same here. I guess I'd rather they not improve automatically but to me there are far more important issues with abilty scores. and they certainly should NOT be rolled :rant: at least not in my games.

it makes some characters objectively, mechanically better than others with the same class and backround and not even that different story-wise. how interesting is that? :erm: some unpredictability in the outcome of each action makes the game exciting. knowing that your character will have an...

I don't like 1e style arcane magic. I especially don't want overly fragile wizards at low levels and overpowered wizards with both arbitrary and random limitations at higher levels. In that regard I like the 4e philosophy (but not the implementation). I wouldn't mind an optional system for...

fantasy reptilian humanoids having boobs isn't such a stretch. I don't find it visually interesting (or even remotely appealing) but it never bothered me a much as the goofy Predator dreadlocks or the lack of a tail (tail sweep attacks would have been cool). It's not like I'm ever going to play...

how about a highly customisable (and possibly complex) fighter that doesn't use pseudo-vancian powers? the essential fighter may become that, depending on the new options and how essential multiclassing works. amen