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The random tables aren't a very good tool for telling you what the game's magic item distribution should be like. They don't describe the game as it is- published adventures typically don't have random orcs dropping +3 long swords (even though overall, most such adventures have magic items be...

The real issue with this is, I feel, is that it puts the DM on the spot. Now I know, some DM's don't really care to balance their campaigns around the player's choices- "Oh you chose to have a Druid heal you instead of a Cleric so you don't have the right spell for the job? Sucks to be you."...

I like it! I was curious how you rule on scrolls of Magi spells taken from the Cleric list- who can use them?

So I'm running a game with an all-caster party. Here's what I've noticed: *Fights take awhile, as the party has to whittle down vast HP pools. *About 50% of battles (unless I can find ways to really get them to stretch their resources) are almost pointless to actually run. The enemies are...

It does however answer the question of who told The Doctor about Belinda Chandra, implying yes, that happened.

Except, you know, the fact that there aren't new classes (well, ok, they made one in 10 years*. Wow! And it's not like you couldn't expand several existing subclasses to be full classes easily enough). *I don't count the Blood Hunter, obviously. Eh, w/e, I know it's not going to change...

I'm dubious that it would make a huge difference. But I suppose there's nothing to compare it to, since most every other class has to consume a resource to increase their damage- unless you count Clerics getting a bonus d8 damage at higher level- another class that seems denied Extra Attack on...

The more I deal with 5e, the less I like subclasses. Once upon a time you could just start play as an Assassin, or a Samurai, or a Berserker. Either through a separate 1-20 class or a Kit a 1st level character could take. Oh man, to be a Swashbuckler, I have to go to Rogue school for 2...

I don't understand why giving Rogues Extra Attack is such a bad thing. You can give it to some Bards or even Wizards, but not Rogues?

The Doctor's sense of empathy is obviously on the fritz again. He didn't give a whit about UNIT. He didn't show up to resolve the scenario. He only swung by because Conrad broke Ruby's heart.

Let's not forget Rule One, people! "The Doctor Lies".

Yeah, I think it's more likely that 15 is the Doctor who took the madness from 14.

When he calls himself a Madman in a Box, he's not joking. From most perspectives, the Doctor is insane. I don't really expect consistency of action. At any moment, he could be any of the infamous D&D alignments.

Yeah, I was always dubious about 10 lambasting Harriet over the whole "kill bad guys" thing- the Doctor has done worse, before and since, to his enemies. Seven arranging for Skaro's destruction via the Hand of Omega? Ten himself imprisoning the Family of Blood forever? Or attempting to...

If we're arguing about the morality of the government in the Whoverse, I think it's pretty obvious it's pretty messed up. Just look at Torchwood. Or more specifically, Children of Earth, where the government was complicit in handing over children to the 456.

We are talking about a game where you could buy a ladder and sell it as a pair of 10' poles to make a profit, right? I don't think a critical examination of how wealth works in 3.x is going to get anyone anywhere. The WBL rules exist as an attempt (not really a great one, sadly) to balance...

I mean, strictly speaking, having greater skill at something than anyone on Earth probably should be a super power. I guess it comes down to, there's no way to prove that it is- there's no super soldier serum, weird genetic code, or physical mutation that someone could point to. If Hawkeye or...

Maybe it's just my spell selection, but on my Wizard, the 3rd-level spell slots are more valuable than my 4th-level ones. I can usually toss out a slow or fireball in most combats, but my polymorph and sickening radiance have more niche uses (I tend to use polymorph if someone is low on hit...

If the best rules are "DM decides", then why do we need rulebooks at all?

The only magic store that even remotely made sense to me was Chemcheaux, from 2e's Encyclopedia Magica, with the actual magic items being stored in a warehouse on a demiplane and with crazy magical defenses. Generally in my campaigns, you can expect a few magic items to be laying around, but...