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What I'm thinking of is: pick class A and you are PL-15. Pick class B and you are PL-5. Pick an Ice Wizard and you are PL-15. Pick a Necromancer and you are PL-7. Or, as you say, it is a PL-5 game and a specific chain of feats makes your character PL-15. If you want to play a Jedi, you can...

This sounds more like a very nice idea for the core schtick for an Alchemist class, not a Ranger. Too big a departure from the earlier versions for many people to swallow. Because there are people who have been playing the Ranger class for 20+ years now, and who are going to be really...

Animal companions: like the idea of this being optional rather than built-in for rangers and Druids. I'd also like to see it as a tiered specialty that gave clerics, thieves, and other non-wizards the option of having a familiar-like companion. So you have: Animal companion I: small...

As long as your decision to play Superman doesn't render my decision to play Jimmy Olsen pointless (because I will never be able to contribute effectively in a game that ostensibly supports both character types), I'm fine with that. Mechanical superiority is fine with me, in other words, as...

Outside of combat, I tend to abide by a "two strikes" rule- you always have two opportunities to avoid a fatal effect. So you might get an opportunity to make a skill/attribute check + a save if that fails. Or you can use equipment or clever play to avoid a hazard entirely, and then either...

I don't see anything hypocritical about it all. But I can see how it can come across as a little self-centered. In the first case, the type of game you want to run as a DM, vs. the type of game that the other DM wants to run doesn't have to be the same. You want to run a game that has a...

Being without a group at the moment, I've decided to get in on the playtest goodness by running Reclaiming Blingdenstone as a PbP. We've currently got a sorcerer, a cleric, and a rogue and are looking for 1-3 more players to round out our roster. The game will be run in a fairly dungeon-crawl...

I think it depends on the expectations of the game, and also the complexity of character creation. In games where players are expected to spend significant time developing the background and personality of their character, it seems a bit dumb to pair that idea with being one-shotted by slipping...

Can't XP you right now, but I like this idea. Has a very old-school feel to it, introduces a little unpredictability, and would permit magic users to employ armor if they thought it was going to be really necessary, but with a substantial drawback. It also solves the Wizard 18/Fighter 1...

I would second this one. Contrary to the structural concerns some people have expressed, I have a 8 year-old 78" Billy shelf that is loaded with books- computer reference books, university text books, hardbacks, giant softbacks, you name it- and has shown no sides of bowing or slumping. It has...

WEG made an Indiana Jones game too, didn't they? Can't remember if that one was d6 or something else. Famous & TT RPG pretty much means 'D&D'. Nothing else comes close. I would wager that for most of the people during the 1970's & 80's who created new games, D&D was the first game that...

Yup, in book two of the original Dark Elf triology (Sojourn, I think), Drizzt visits Blingdenstone and is briefly taken in by the deep gnomes that live there. In either late book 2 or book three (Exile), the Drow from Menzoberanzan track Drizzt to the city and lay waste to it. There is also a...

Fortuitously, I've started collecting resources for running this adventure. Check out the first two links on the page below- they include some quick reference pages and extensions for the adventure that a guy named Jeremy Murphy put together on his blog: Reclaiming Blingdenstone Resources

"On closer inspection, the door has the word 'PULL' written above it in ten inch high red letters."

'Resources' is maybe a bad term; I've never really thought of D&D as 'resource management', but the phrase seems to be common with people. A better way of explaining it might be: I want to introduce a set of situational combat options that make combat more detailed, more tactical, but more time...

Not at all- the point is not to 'prevent' players from spending important powers in small encounters. The point is to make it possible to intentionally structure two different types of encounters, and give players a new set of options in certain situations. It's like giving players maneuver...

There seems to be a very fundamental error being committed here. It involves the two possible meanings of the term 'boss'. Meaning 1: 'Boss' (or 'Solo', or whatever) is a technical, mechanical term that means: this block of stats has rules-centric properties that makes it well suited to being...

I think two things majorly contribute to this feel- survivability, and the use/presentation of the encounter rules. First, as character creation has gotten more and more detailed and time consuming, having level 1 PCs (or any PC) die has fallen increasingly out of fashion. You encourage people...

I think he means that marking off a row of boxes on graph paper gives you a way to track turns (like boxes on a bowling score sheet). Then, you can mark in advance places where important time-dependent events happen. E.g., you star with a blank piece of paper when the players enter a dungeon...

I picked 'something else'. I kind of like Dragons being de-coupled from a single environment- a Dragon nests where ever it damn well pleases. Except for the White Dragon, which should remain a degenerate cold-weather inbred albino. Possibly White Dragons should gain a bonus to playing the...