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Sounds like you're talking about something like this: Mythic Game Master Emulator

If you mean the Holy Slayer from the Al-Qadim boxed set (detailed in Wolfgnag Baur's Assassin Mountain), then hells yeah.

Hopefully, the target audience is you. The fact is, while you may be a more casual gamer than some, I think casual gamers are a larger audience than the hardcore ones. I think that is where there is room for growth in the hobby in general and D&D in particular. Also, I think hardcore players...

I think if the player is putting in all this work, they should get a reward, but not one they can rely on. Part of the point of faith is sticking to it whether you can see the obvious benefits or not. So, maybe the if your player does all that ritual worship before a battle or whatever, the next...

I think it would be great if they did both; an assassin class with a path for magical powers and a path for just being a bad-ass.

Am I the only one who can't understand how they've played at least 700+ game sessions and no one is higher than 15th level? Am I remembering AD&D's XP tables wrong?

Just a note to say this looks great, and that Night's Black Agents looks great too. I don't have my bloody hands on it yet, but that game has every appearance yet of being the best design yet from one of the 21st Century's best game designers.

<unhelpful thought> Maybe the monster's saves ARE their ability scores. </unhelpful thought>

As someone who played all the editions, I would say the 1E defining sub-system was Races. Seriously, that was a big deal. In BECMI, Elf and Dwarf and Halfling were classes. In OD&D, you basically had one big character customization choice that mattered crunch-wise (alignment and whatever else...

Entered with 40 minutes to spare. What can I say, I love contests but I'm terrible with deadlines. I thought some of the instructions were unclear, so I hope I did it all right. When it's over, I hope those of us who don't place might post our entries here, so we can see how everyone approached...

The part I would like to discuss is, when it says Erik Mona "wants (WotC) to succeed," in what terms is that true? How much success for WotC with 5E and its playtesting is actually good for Paizo, Pathfinder, and/or the hobby as a whole?

Ravenloft's relationship to the other planes.

It seems like a lot of the problems you had are with the execution of Saga, not the ideas themselves. Like it needed more development and playtesting. As you say, it's like the developers gave up and just moved on to 4E which got a lot more attention. So, if ideas from Sage made it into 5E, they...

This OGL product was an attempt to make 3.x alignment a lot more like Pendragon, with alignment ratings. It is another cool system idea I never got to actually try at the gaming table (it came out right before 4E): Fantasy Folio: Allegiances - Big Finger Games | RPGNow.com

The Lorefinder book for Pathfinder takes the superior investigation/knowledge system from Gumshow and bolts it on to Pathfinder in a way that I haven't tried yet but looks really exciting. It'd be great to have a D&D game where the adventure doesn't stop because no one makes a Perception roll...

Yeah, I think a lot of this stuff suggests itself from a close reading of the modules and the Eberron material, so I'm not surprised you already had a similar plan. Really, I'm just trying to set out the ideas that seem simplest and most obvious. As I said, I think there are two choices-- a...

For any DM not setting the Campaign Saga on Eberron, it seems to me that there are two choices if you use Kalashtar in the default setting of the modules. (For any DM running WotBS set on Eberron, it seems like Primitive Screwhead and 8bitdeity have already figured out how to insert the trillith...

For those hoping to let players read the prologue without spoiling the first encounter, I direct you to this post in the EN Publishing forums, for a way to do so: http://www.enworld.org/forum/e-n-publishing/256077-can-my-players-read-campaign-guide-prologue.html#post4791800

I have made my own PDF of the prologue that excises everything that spoils that first encounter. It ain't as pretty by a longshot as the campaign guide, I just cut and pasted the text and some graphics and used MS Word-- but it seems like an effective way to pass out the prologue to the players...

Just as a side-note, in my 4E group's WotBS game, we made her as Water Genasi from the FR Player's Guide (stripped the chrome off but let her have all the abilities) and built her as a Battleaxe-wielding Strength Cleric with the Resistance feat from the Player's Guide as a bonsu feat. And the...