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If we're following the rules, I think we need to ... follow the rules. Fey Step seems risk-free when teleporting to something you can see. You cannot teleport to something you can't see (either due to blindness, or because there's a barrier between you and it). Otherwise the way PCs use the...

Should I rename that to "Stubborn As A Mule?"

Here's something I drew up a while back.

It wasn't that there wasn't much of a fight. The tiger killed a PC, so I can hardly say the fight wasn't challenging. The problem I had is they can cripple the boss's first round (aka the alpha strike). This is good advice. I like this one too.

Pretty much the penalty to hit. I wanted a way to discourage that, but only during the alpha strike period, not during the whole fight. That's why I proposed having the anti-control ability be a lot weaker or non-existent when the monster is bloodied, but also have anti-control work against...

Are umber hulks really that vicious individually? I think a militia could defeat a single one. Stay back and shoot it. Hopefully you're too far to be affected by its eyes. (A poorly-trained militia might run away or close their eyes though.) Proper world design would prevent this kind of thing...

You could pay adventurers to clear out the brown mold. Because mold isn't intelligent, the same solution will always work on it. Barring mutations, of course. I don't think that would work so easily. Flying mounts would enhance communications to an extent, but unless they're much more enduring...

Alignments are unclear and promote conflict within a group. The best set of fantasy alignments I've ever seen are here: http://gelvgoldenaxe.proboards.com/thread/23 Clear and based on a game. (I don't like the not lying part, but that's one out of eleven parts of the "code", so you could play...

The last session I ran had a fairly unsatisfying boss battle. The PCs were 7th-level and looking for a "hunting demon" they knew little about. The PCs were determined to capture it and use it to defend their tower. They passed a skill challenge and therefore got a surprise round on it. It was a...

Probably. The few who really hated the concept seemed offended that the purity of D&D was contaminated with damage on a miss though. There's even a thread about whether damage on a miss might stop someone from buying D&D Next.

Probably yes, but I would see it as an encounter or two or three, not great for being part of an ongoing campaign. (Planning can take time.)

That really does sound like the best fantasy Japan ever. (Oriental Adventures was pretty good, but I don't think it distinguished enough between Buddhism and Shinto.) Now I wish I had gotten that credit card on Friday, so I could buy this product. Also, how do you get those endless maps? The...

There are at-will rogue utilities that let a rogue break cover and still use Stealth. So while an eladrin is more tactically flexible, humans, halflings, etc can do this by the rules.

Just yesterday I was happy that this subforum didn't have a single post since March 27th. Well, this thread isn't ranty. I suspect this subforum will vanish anyway. Whenever a new edition comes up, there's some kind of edition war. The moderators have to tamp it down. Maybe 5e will get its own...

I see eladrin tactical teleports as fascinating. I'm picturing humans defending a 25 foot tall wall. Whoops, too short! The walls have crenellations, partially blocking vision, and the walls are twice as thick as usual, and there's blocks and other stuff taking up about half the space. Plus most...

They still have some use. They still prevent attacks by "mundanes". Adding things like "hoardings" helps repel flying creatures. Fireballs don't do much damage to stone walls. Of course, invisibility, impersonating and mobility magic bypass walls in differing ways. And even these aren't...

In some versions of D&D, new characters always start with 0 XP. *Shudder* It sucks to die. It sucks to be the new guy in the group. You probably get stuck playing a 1st-level cleric.

4e has henchmen rules (called "companions"). There are no cohort rules however. Companions are weaker, so your companions are effectively cohorts. Companions also get a full share of XP. In general, companions are used if the number of players at the table is low. There are also rules for NPC...

The social dynamics are more important than the technology. Maybe nobles have flush toilets... that are actually magic items that teleport the waste. Druids hate those! Elementalists also hate them if they're sending things to the Elemental Plane of Water or the Elemental Chaos. A feudal...

This is hugely edition-dependent. In 4e, Cure Disease is a ritual that costs components, and also requires a Heal check that can damage or even kill the recipient on a failed skill check. In 4e, a noble family might have an item that can cast that ritual once per day (there's no official item...