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One one hand, you have demonstrated a great deal of class by not getting into why you are selling the books. On the other hand, I was slightly disappointed that what I assumed would a flame war was a post full of mundane financial transactions.

For a campaign based on rotating DMs I have found it helpful to base the campaign on a formal organization with specific goals, rather than on a group of PCs who got together to adventure. The PCs are essentially employees for the organization and go on missions to further the organization's...

This is a very long thread and I have done my honest best to read through it but I appologize if I am repeating what someone else has said. I would like to see DM fiat play a larger role. There should be an easy mechanism (d6 or d10 per 10'). In an encounter, a DM should avoid a realistically...

I really like Midnight's take on the Ranger. It was a blend of the wood-crafty expert and Fighter. In our 2e-3e FR campaign we said "screw it" and made a Ranger the specialty priest of Meliki (or however you spell it). Rangers were priests, and were treated with the dignity of priests when...

How about adding additional factors beyond damage and attack to differentiate weapons? I liked weapon speed factor in principle if not in practice. There may be an initiative effect depending on weapon choice. We could also incorporate a modified weapon versus armor rule like in 1e. Weapon...

And some players respect the story the DM is trying to tell and try to compliment rather than derail a story.

Under these circumstances I would consider talking to your DM and explaining that his rules limitations are making your character less fun to play: "We should discuss how to make my character more fun, or we should discuss my new character." It is a hobby, not a job. He may have good reasons...

1e was so impenetrable that DM fiat was necessary just to play. It almost seemed that each group played a completely different game. This resulted in a lot of petty dictator DMs who acted capriciously and arbitrarily. More than in any other version, the quality of the game depended on the...

In a 4e situation, when a sneaking rogue wants to silently take out a guard this is best (and probably, most appropriatly) handled as a skill challenge and the hit points of the guard or the damage of the attack simply wouldn't enter into the equation.

Everyone should have to comment on the original posters question, in the spirit of his question, before persuing this mostly unhelpful and useless contest over what technically constitutes "essentials."

I don't want to give the impression of piling on but I agree with this. You have what seems to be a very stable culture with a very distant king. Is this the ultimate thrust of the campaign? A god/demon/man behind the curtain? Are the five kingdoms set? For how long? Why? Does anyone want to...

Your powers define how you can attack. Most anyone can wield two weapons. To use two weapons in an attack you must have a power that explicitily allows you to use two weapons. Off the top of my head rangers, barbarians and fighters can do this. There may be more, and I am sure someone else will...

Don't get hung up on the "essentials" description. Today a former druid had mad fun playing a Tri-keen slayer fighter. The party was a Mul battlerage fighter, halfling cunning rogue, Genasi taclord, Human (essentials) enchanter mage, and said slayer. The essentials classes integrate seemlessly...

In fairness, Incenjucar did not say "There are real world animals with the same exact limitations as pixies." He said, "There are living creatures and machines in the REAL WORLD with altitude limits." AbdulAlHezred further explained the scientific basis for this. He was also kind enough to...

The point was that when one group (more or less) plays 4 editions over twenty years or so, trying and discarding optional rules and house rules along the way, it is easy to muddle things. But thanks for the input if I go back to 1e; I'll reread the rules.

Thank you both very much. We carry baggage going back to 1e. When I reread the Death and Dying rules today they were so "plain text" contrary to how we were doing it I knew something was wrong.

"High-profile" maybe, but I doubt he is being paid more than a sales manager at mid-sized, regional, corporation. (Probably a fair bit less.) Enough money to have to make a case at corporate but not enough money that corporate actually pay attention. I am not sure if the italized "big" is called...

I have a feeling this is a stupid question. We have been playing it that when you take enough damage to drop you are at 0 HP, meaning that we did not calculate negative HP. You have 7 HP and take 12 damage? You are at 0. Then you make saving throws. We made the character save against things...

If you don't share the details you really aren't helping to move the conversation along very much.