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Reading Necromancer Game's announcement about how they want to try and fill in the gaps and replace the "lost" classes and races for 4e right out of the gate, I started thinking about another area that third party publishers might want to look at entering, and it's one that would not be in...

I suspect that the pattern is going to be a physical bonus and a mental bonus for each race (excepting humans and half-breeds, perhaps.) A physical/physical boost in attributes skews the whole representation of the race towards martial (small 'm' martial - melee) classes, making one race "the"...

Reading through various threads about DDI for 4e, value seems to be the major issue. I can't help but think of all the features that are offered by other places and things I might pay a subscription for online and compare. It's foolish for them to think that because it's something different...

On comparing DDI to an mmo - All things being equal (I don't suddenly come into a lot of money), I'll probably be making a choice between the mmo that I sometimes play and DDI. So I can't help but make that comparison, even just a little bit. They don't have to be the same thing for me to make...

I struggled with the necromancer for a long while when I had an idea for a campaign once that heavily involved necromancy. Mechanically and thematically. I was trying to decide between an arcane villain and a divine villain. The more I looked at it, the less an arcane necromancer made sense...

That was my first thought as well. But seriously, I'd like to see anything that was notorious for its "save or die" effect done under 4E. I think that would tell us a lot about the system.

I'm sorry, I think I put this in the wrong section. Could this be moved to the "4e discussion" area?

Ok, "God of Doorways" I get. I'm picturing a little old guy in a red suit with gold buttons that always gets to stand outside the gates to the higher planes and help the other gods out of their chariots. But I really hope there is an example of some sort of god more suitable for the rural...

I don't know, I just don't think the designation 'exotic' is entirely necessary or welcome. Shouldn't the question of whether or not a weapon is exotic be up to the campaign setting, or in the case of a homebrew, the DM? I was looking at the 3.5 PBH after lurking here last night, and the one...

Most of my "gnome experience" comes from either trying to make uncommon race/class combos out of amusement (ie, Gnome Barbarian) and then never playing them - messing around with game mechanics - or using or encountering them as NPCs. I'm not anti-gnome, I've just never related to them very...

At most, all you know is that the encounter isn't entirely over (and that's if I dignified that question with a response.) You can guess all you like as to why, but a decent DM would keep you on your toes. It could be that there was a pit trap in the room, and there's a goblin hiding behind a...

It would really have to depend on what the invisible mastermind actually does. If he sticks around and just makes the PCs think he left, so that once they are tired out from fighting his minions he pops out and backstabs them, then they're still in the encounter. If he just stands back and...

See, to me, it would just seem like the most obvious thing to do is consider the entire thing the character's encounter with the archery target / in the archery competition. So, if the elf can reroll a ranged attack, and has a feat to add +2 to that reroll, and all of that is per encounter, he...

All of my RPG materials occupy the bottom shelf of my one solid wall of bookshelves. Not because I'm in danger of using most of it at any given time, but partly because you can't help but notice it, and that is a devious way to get people that play RPGs to spot the books and speak up and start...

I'm a bit surprised that other than suggesting that one pare down the skill list and fold skills together, no one has touched on skills. * Get rid of 3.x opposed skill check mechanics and instead use a static value of 10+skill ranks as the target DC. * Get rid of skill ranks. Give each player...