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Experience is a thing you get from killing monsters in a game about killing monsters. If it wasn't there then there would be no advancement and people would find the game less satisfying.

I hope that this time around errata is cheered for fixing problems instead of booed for admitting they exist.

Props to this kind of thread. Problems cannot be dealt with if they are not first recognized as being problems. Declaring that problems only stem from people playing the game wrong or not enforcing whatever bizarre RP restrictions an individual deems necessary doesn't actually fix those...

Nice appeal to authority you got there, but just because Gary Gygax said it doesn't mean it can't be disputed. I could fill a truck with all the stuff he wrote down that would offend most gamers today.

If anyone hadn't noticed OOTS isn't really beholden to the rules of the game, not 3.0 or 3.5 or anything else. It's a comic strip. Things happen because they are dramatic or funny, not because the rules of some third party game allow them. I'm sure if Mr. Burlew came up with a 4e joke that was...

Why exactly is it an issue again if the game is overhauled and rebooted every few years? I can't think of any industry or market (not even RPGs, with the sole and singular exception of D&D) where reinvention and rebooting every few years isn't the norm; and it's not just for the sake of selling...

To be honest I think this is all in your head. Starting with as high a score as possible is still desirable because most the things you do will key off of that ability. The only difference now is that once you max out your primary score you receive vastly diminishing returns with each successive...

I liked the playtest sorcerer better. That one at least had a theme to it "Cool dragon guy". This is just a poor wizard with some extra bits stapled to it. If you can envision a new player asking you "What's the difference between a sorcerer and a wizard" and you have to think about that for...

In my game, there was this one fight... For me 4e will always be remembered as the edition where my party was fighting a beholder on the edge of a pit full of lava. The beholder was hovering just over the edge of the pit to keep pesky melee types off his back. Then, the fighter says "Screw it...

The concept of bounded accuracy, in an academic sense at least, is the idea that player rolls must stay largely within defined minimum and maximum values. So, for example, you could make the minimums and maximums say... 0 and 30, so knowing that no player can possibly in any way roll higher than...

How many wizards is a level 20 fighter really going to attack? Maybe a wizard BBEG or something, but I would expect him to spend far more time fighting tarrasques and balors and whatever other unimaginable horrors come with more than 15 hit dice. This whole thought experiment has the feel of...

The broken parts of 3e are not the myriad of +1s. Sure, you can optimize that way and make some nice characters, but in the end the truly broken stuff is the abilities that are "just so". They declare that things happen without the addition of dice or impose the rolling of basic skill checks on...

I feel a classic case of the sonic cycle. At first I was intrigued by the idea of a simplified game that cleaned up the bloat and grind of 4e. Then as more detailed emerged that it would be heavily modeled after a weird combination of 1e and 3e I became rather disenchanted. Finally, my group...

I don't think anyone who was going to buy 5e is going to not buy it because there's a Flumph in the monster manual. That doesn't make it less dumb though. Yes. Some of the early editions of D&D had frankly stupid and useless monsters in them. They were just throwing stuff at the wall to see...

It's the best selling RPG right now because D&D isn't selling anything and hasn't sold anything for years. As much as the serial numbers have been filed off Pathfinder *is* D&D. It's 3.5 with house rules. D&D is the default TTRPG for most people. In fact for most of the world D&D is the...

Why exactly does anyone care if the fighter's powers have the literal word "magic" (as opposed to the nigh infinite number of other possible words ranging from "aardvark" to "zyxt") attached to them? Is there anyone who actually thinks fighters in D&D are just ordinary humans no different from...

So we cannot criticize homebrew material simply because it is optional? If you put it out here for people to look at you are inviting debate and criticism. I doubt very much that anyone here would use these rules at their table, but that doesn't disallow them from speaking their mind about the...

Good to see the spirit of punishing idiots stupid enough to not cast magic is alive and well. Also people with more attacks (i.e. more skill) are ironically more likely to do all of these things than people who only roll a single d20 a round.

Death to ability scores

You can? How exactly does one do this? Whether the game lasts a long time depends entirely on whether Wizards of the Coast and its Hasbro overlords think it's making sufficient revenue, which also requires defining what "sufficient revenue" is. Unless there's a paragraph in the foreword...