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I agree. The difference between rolling a 10 and "as if you rolled a 10" is the crit, much like the difference between a 20 and a natural 20. I am not sure I would disallow it, but I am also not sure I would allow it either. Depends on how it plays and the fun value. Edit: Assuming there is no...

I dunno... In my experience it is either an MBA, which is right there on the character sheet, or a defender who can exploit the OA. In this case they should be gently encouraged to learn their character or gently encouraged to play a different character. If a player makes a character that...

You are right. But as a striker, I always feel that devoting one of your two at-wills to personal defense was in bad taste. As if you are not carrying your weight. It is an okay choice for a human's third, and it can be bumped by feat combos and whatnot, but I am fundamentally uncomfortable with...

I suppose cynicism is par for the course and some people can never never be happy or find their center. But wasn't the limited at-wills one of the primary gripes? I know, personally, I found it annoying. I think this small and simple change has a profound, positive, impact on the classs.

And since monsters are not just relative but also PC-centric, a goblic may be a minion when fighting a PC, but would become a level-appropriate monster if he was fighting a farmer. (Which, I suppose, could happen if a DM did some sort of cut-away encounter during a dream sequence, or wanted to...

This. I remember, back in the 3e days, conversations on enword along the lines of "I want my bad guy to have a big force field but he is not high enough level for that many Wall of Force and Permenancy spells." Rituals pretty much brought it back to 1/2e with rules support. A ritual can do...

I, on the other hand, would have allowed it to happen as a standard action with an OA. Action economy aside it would seem strange that moving from a threatened square while alert and completely functional provokes but being dragged while grasping something with two hands does not. But either...

I don't know. I am more inclined to think that the big game developers prefer to develop their own intellectual property so they can tap into all the extra revenue streams. Dragonage, for example.

But when was this ever the case? I am old enough to remember playing Pool of Radiance and Hillsfar on the commodore 64. They were more like tabletop D&D than Frogger or Leisuresuit Larry but they were hardly in-depth RPGs. I thought Torment captures the Planescape vibe pretty well and Balder's...

I managed the communications infrastructure for a 15-site (CA to NY to FL) company for a decade. I think your experience is anomolous. Or you should reconsider your vendor. And/or your policies. Or, more likely, you are citing anomlies yourself and you have hundreds of clients who do not need...

Profits happen on the margin. Small reductions in cost increase the profit significantly.

We completely agree. When the DM wants to give the character a big, fun win the ogre charges through the party provoking OAs right and left. But not always. It helps if the DM describes the monsters actions in an exciting, plausible way, but the DM should make it clear that he or she will not...

I have been hit in anger with large pieces of wood. The human body is very resilient. But cut me I will bleed. SCA fighting is, I am sure, usefule for tactics. I am not sure it is useful for comparing the consequences of various strikes.

The difference between superior and martial is really only a point of damage per W and maybe a kicker so, in a real world campaign, its not that big a deal. I agree that it would be cool to play a staff-wielding badass. On the other hand there is a reason that serious warriors did not use blunt...

I honestly don't understand what you are trying to say. I am not trying to be a jerk. I am just not sure what you are getting at.

According to the rules as I read them you are absolutely correct. "the dominator chooses a single action for the creature to take on the creature’s turn" etc. But rather than interject wonky saving throw rules and what not my preference is just to leave it to the DM and allow him or her to...

21 years ago I got a C in geometry. That is the extent of my math mastery. I'd like an opinion from the experts, though. It seems to me that these marginal differences we are discussing end up being trivial considering how easily a DM can adjust an encounter. Or, to look at it another way, a...

I get the impression you are asking, essentially, "does a player have to irrevocably declare every scare of his movement when he declares a move action?" I don't see any reason why this would be so in the general rules. You move a number of squares equal to your speed. If the conditions change...

I am sorry for phrasing my comment in a way that was offensive. In my game we create adventures that accommodate the players and the characters.

Pity your players. Had a vampire player been in my party... I don't dont know what to tell you. In my game we are all friends and we make things work. Your examples are totally meaningless. I love killing charaters. Some players like to be killed and others hate it. I keep that in mind. I make...