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My worries Too much flavor hardwiring: Feats like "Power of Amaunator" make it seem like it's going to be difficult to make custom pantheons for your campaign world w/o a constant "translation legend" for what's on the character sheet, what's in the book, and what's in the campaign...

The difference lies in the balance. Where do we set the minimums to be able to be competent at something? Many limits in 3e are set around an assumption that your stats aren't penalized: minimum stat needed to cast spells of a certain level, expected save DCs vs. monsters of the appropriate...

I was wondering about this too. I was actually thinking of starting a new thread about it, but I guess I'll just second this question here. Why are Hide & Leather separate classes of armor if they grant the same bonus (and are largely made of the same class of materials)? Could you explain...

Of course not. The woman clearly has no internal organs. Oh, and ditto on the wish for women who dress sensibly for combat. It's always been a pet peeve to me that women adventurers go around with unprotected hearts and vitals -- the very areas that even the most BASIC forms of armor protect.

Not really. Most people who aren't switching have made that decision based on preconceived notions of the game in absence of having actually read it. They don't need to read it -- they know enough based on rumors and half-knowledge to have firmly made up their minds. What, in your experience...

Seconded. The idea of making a magical throwing weapon that doesn't return is silly. Who would spend the money on a weapon that amounts to a one-per-encounter attack or, worse, that amounts to arming your enemies?

There are entire *games* based largely on intra-PC conflict that are lots of fun and actually frequently encourage OOC fun. Amber, Paranoia, etc. are largely centered around adversarial PCs, and games like the Storyteller series frequently encourage the formation of groups with different (often...

Return to the Orc and the Pie?

I don't think his comment was actually meant in the spirit of hating Jews -- all Borat jokes aside. What he means (I assume) is that Tieflings are likely to end up in the same kinds of jobs that Jews did for many of the same social reasons. You have a human subculture that is markedly...

Well, two points: 1) There were only 7 core races in the 3.0/3.5 PHB. 6 is not a huge difference, and 5 are races in common between the two. The half-orc will be available on D&D Insider online very shortly after 4e is out. Thus you will be left -1 Gnome, +1 Eladrin. 2) A lack of racial...

So, essentially, you're saying that people are likely to go around singing songs telling people that they must "grab them by their horns" and throw them down the well before they can take all your money? Nice....

Have you ever played console tactical RPGs, like the Nippon Ichi series of games? (Disgaea, Phantom Brave, Makai Kingdom, etc.) Earlier games in the series use a tactical grid. Some later games chuck out the grid entirely for free-form movement. Personally, I find those later games to be...

Playing a minotaur will make you no weaker than playing a Dwarf if you take no dwarven racial feats. Yech. That'll happen if you encounter a player like that. Gnomes are a lot cooler than that in a good player's hands, but if you play up the practical jokes angle (or, in the case of Tinker...

You know, there's no indication that the Eladrin can choose to take or not to take any possession or other items with him. It could be as simple as tying him up (since he can't teleport out of the ropes) or even just chaining him to a wall with manacles, making him unable to "step" away. Kill...

What I find most interesting (and bothersome, actually) is that the capacity to use Rituals is listed on the character sheet of the sample Wizard from DDXP but is missing from the character sheet of the sample Cleric and Warlock. [Edit: This is incorrect. The Cleric *does* get rituals, as...

For a more concrete example of this, you can look at the Tiefling's +1 to hit bloodied opponents, or more viciously, the abilities that gnolls get: A gnoll marauder gets a free bite attack as a secondary attack against bloodied foes. A gnoll demonic scourge knocks bloodied enemies prone with a...

This just in -- simulationist players find "fun" an oppressive and unnecessary intrusion into their recreational past-times. I mean, honestly. I've never heard of the concept of having fun in a game described as "tyrannical" before. Most simulationist players I've known just said that...

Yeah, okay. Class imbalance == a focus on roleplaying. I think enough people have piled on you for this ridiculous argument, so I'm going to look at the worst other part of this post: So, here it is -- solid evidence that 4e will completely invalidate a particular concept (that's hard enough...

That's a strange interpretation. All the card says is, "A minion dies when hit by an attack that deals damage." Nowhere does it state that the attack has to be rolled against the kobold nor that it even has to be rolled. Merely the that the kobold must take damage as the effect of an attack...

Heh. :D Dude, have you seen the guy in green? I don't think they've ever seen a man either. That or else Shemp's put on some weight.