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You're right. What should have been done in 3.x, and probably also in 4e, was to have a set of craft/profession skills into which you put a certain number of points in character creation, and for which you get a small number of points as you level up. These points would be separate from...

That is counter-intuitive to what Jack-of-all-Trades generally means. A JoaT is someone who is naturally good at anything he tries. Today he tries carpentry for the first time, and he's pretty good at it. Tomorrow he tries blacksmithing, and he's good at that too. Next week he might try...

I hope this doesn't mean that a level 10 warlock who, at one time, 2 decades ago, used to practice carpentry in his father's workshop, is better at crafting furniture than a carpenter who has been working the trade for the last 20 years, just because the warlock is level 10? And, another...

Hey, don't let that guy who trains lions, tigers, bears (oh my) for the circus know that if he dies in an unfortunate circus accident, they can replace him with any coachman, teamster, charioteer or stableboy.

So when the princess wants to hop on her silver charger and go galloping through the clover fields, she needs the mounted combat feat?

I call Shenanigans on all this talk of optimization. If you're a power-gamer (loosely defined as anyone who cares about the statistics and numbers involved in their character) then you're going to optimize - it's intrinsic to the concept of "power-gamer". If you're a roleplayer, then...

I beg to differ. While you could do this, the mechanics of 3.5 made bow damage so puny that if you wanted to actually hurt anything you fought, you virtually had to use bows that allowed your STR damage (mighty in 3.0, compound in 3.5) to be added to the damage rolls. Otherwise, your weak...

My concern, not so much with your take as with the whole concept of 4e stealth in general, is that any character who is good at stealth will be able to automatically succeed against most of the common monsers' PASSIVE perception. What this means is that a room full of 100 kobolds, all of whome...

As for me, I find it very strange that you can stand up in an adjacent square but only if your square is occupied. If you can scoot out from under a hostile orc and end up on your feet in an adjacent square, why can't you simply scoot out from an empty square and end up on your feet in an...

This sounds more like a feat. Something a trained individual (someone who takes the feat) can do but the rest of us cannot.

No, I'm not confusing Threatening Reach (which would also give you an OA if a foe 2 squares away moved farther away without shifting, or moved laterally without coming adjacent to you). And yes, I get that there is a difference between OAs triggered by leaving a threatened square and OAs...

You're not looking at the correct General rule to override. Let's look at a modern example. A specific rule in our society might say "If you're carrying a gun, you can shoot people with your gun." This is a true statement. The general rule it overrides is "Without a gun, you cannot shoot...

This makes no sense. The reason it's Polearm Gamble, and not Dagger Gamble, is because polearms are long. They reach places you cannot reach with a dagger (or other regular sized weapon). When someone not adjacent (2 squares away) moves to become adjacent (1 square away) you can use Polearm...

I agree from a game perspective that using minion mooks is more challenging than using low-level mooks. But we were talking about a Steven Seagal movie. No dice, no character sheets, no game. In a movie, Seagal is paid lots of cash to show up on set each day, regardless of how bored he gets...

Maybe. But, they guy you thought was down who has a friendly cleric run over and shout some fervent prayers to a god that result in a flashy glow of divine energy that magically seals the downed guys wounds so that he then gets up and gets in the surprise strike might be a bit harder to...

I agree. The whole idea was to involve everyone in the action, rather than just the rogue disabling traps, the paladin talking to NPCs, etc. Which is why I'm fairly certain I will completely disallow any use of Aid Another during a skill challenge. I also liked the idea of initiatives and...

I seem to recall Gandalf hacking with his sword and bashing with his staff in both the movies and the books. I doubt many fans of the genre find Gandalf overly laughable.

Sure, I grant you this case. A vampire's spawn are supposed to be weaker, and they are usually easy to tell - any seasoned vampire hunter can tell vampire from spawn. But I think that's a small exception to my general theory. I would not call this minion vs. non-minion. In your Steven...

And your criticism adds value? If you're disappointed in the thread, then leave the thread, or improve the thread, but don't just make non-contributional comments about your disappointment - that doesn't help anyone. And no, I don't think this post of mine adds any value, unless ValhallaGH...

Sure, you could look at it that way. Or you could look at it like the Monster Manual has specific entries to tell the DM "pick this guy when you want a monster, pick that guy when you want a minion". Which may or may not be the best way to do things. But if you look at it like minions are...