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I think it would be ... interesting... to retroactively change her weakness to "green rocks". I don't doubt the author-appeal in the weakness she had, but similarly, he'd probably seen (or, vividly imagined) "strong women" brought 'low' in this way, thus inspiring her weakness. And I don't...

Out of curiosity, Danny - If everything <in> the comics was exactly identical, but the author / creator was <female>, would you be able to accept the thesis? ("Wonder Woman was created as a feminist icon") If everything about the <creator> were exactly the same - but the creator was female -...

'kay, awesome. You have my full support. Which, I know, means so much to you. :p

Best "free-form" dungeon I ever ran was a cave! Cave entrance was in an old quarry; the entrance was on the far side of a pool of filthy water, with a makeshift (long) bridge over it. Can't just run across the boards in, because the entrance is only 10' across; there's no room to fight (plus...

"XP Penalty" - I'd like suggest using some incentive to keep going instead. It leads to the "low-on-gas" fights that are so tense and interesting, and let the Martial characters really shine in that "extra" fight. Plus, like, flies and honey, sticks and carrots, and what-not.

Alright, I'm gonna suck and be "that guy". (Hey, wait, I am!) I say, go for Kaylee, after being honest with her about being cookoo for Leela (am I spelling that right?). Having been there, and having done this, and having had Kaylee say, "Well, I'm not really planning on this being forever...

I agree; and note, Pathfinder (in a manner of speaking; Cha, not Con) did. It'll be interesting to see how the TB Monster Book handles their "undead & constructs can be sneak-attack'd" rules.

Maybe you can. I can't. Neither can any player in any game I've ever played. The problem you have named is not a mathematical problem that can be addressed by a system overhaul. It can only be solved by a DM saying "no". (The argument, "A fixed system gets rid of the Gate spell!", holds no...

Just straight incorporated it? I made it a Rogue Talent (since I found Pathfinder Rogues didn't need much help, anyway - but a little extra 'combat punch' seemed like a good Talent). Also, while I liked the "Magic Base Attack" rules, has anyone anywhere actually tried the "spell access from...

Are there still plans for a Trailblazer-ized monster book? ...are we going to see anything further in the Trailblazer line?

Whereas I find their treasure parcel suggestions - including the "stick to giving out the basics" - profoundly good advice. Advice / math that I could reach on my own? Oh, certainly. But I hadn't, after 8-ish years. So advice I was glad for. Hero / Action points (as the book points out) fix...

I think you're both praising Trailblazer, and selling it short, there. It's a solid product. It pokes and prods the rough patches of the 3.5 engine, and reviews some of the base assumptions. It's an <interesting> read, even if you don't play Trailblazer, directly. (The same as, even if you...

That was asked once before. Apparently it has (something) to do with the presentation of "OGL" versus "Not OGL" content, rather that specific intent. (Not saying that it wasn't a deliberate decision for it to be closed content - it was. But a factor was that "that's where these changes go" ran...

I've had this debate with my players. We resolved it, together, by deciding to leave it as it is in the book. In D&D, there's a strong mechanical advantage to acting first - it's plausible (and with high-level rocket-tag, likely) that those who act first can act decisively, and prevent your...

The one and only time it ever happened is when I had someone switch characters mid-adventure, and one-shot-kill my BBEG with a spell I passed the save against. (BBEG was Fire subtype; spell was Polar Ray; a Rod of Maximize was involved; it was grizzly. I played the Sad Trombone.) OTOH, it...

Truthfully, "+2 AC vs the first attack" has never saved any of my caster's bacon. Although, if your caster's ACs are at the point where a small bonus to AC is the difference between hitting and missing, your casters may vary from mine. (I've rarely seen a pure caster bother with Rings of...

I lost my 8-year-plus D&D group when my wife left me abruptly; I joked, at the time, that she got the friends in the divorce. This was just as 4th edition came out. I didn't play for nearly two years, and then, had to start with an entirely new group of players (several of my old players have...

True, but casters have more incentive to spend it in combat, recovering spells mid-fight (where it's a much worse bargain, with each action point recovering only one spell). Truthfully, though, Action Points are much more for martial characters than magic characters. But I'm pretty okay with that.

I think you overestimate the degree to which this is "extreme". If this player doesn't come to the session to "play a game", but instead to "tell a story", "sit around with his friends", or "eat the chips Bill brought while complaining - amusingly - about Star Wars and Robot Chicken", keeping...

Does he "test roll" for every roll, at the start of the session, or only for life-or-death rolls? At the start of the session? Well, no biggie. I've had dozens of players do that, or a variation thereof. For life-or-death rolls? I'd probably be fine with that (have been in the past...