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The Chameleon (from Races of Destiny) is a slightly different kind of support class. Each day they can set themselves up to fill a dfferent gap in the party. Your regular Wizard couldn't make gaming? Go Arcane for the day. You know you're going to need some extra fighting ability? Go...

Not that I'm disagreeing - but what does that have to do with Rolling vs Point Buy? The only difference is if you can plan out the 20 levels before or after stats are officially created. Pre-plannig of levels can happen with either method.

I'm happy to see a large number of varient class features. Hopefully many of them will replace the familiar which no one in our group ever uses anyway. I've seen the ones in the latest Dragon but I want more options than just two.

Chaotic Evil without a doubt. Even though he was fighting terrorism, he killed anyone who got in his way and he also killed complete innocents without any qualms. When the senators (or whoever - it has been awhile since I've seen it) called him off and said they didn't need him anymore; those...

By what definition of "not good enough"? The written definition of at least total +1 mod and a score of at least X (I don't recall what that number is right now)? A character that has one 14 and the rest 10s is valid by this guideline. So is the all 18s character. These two characters, while...

And this is why I will always go with point-buy from now on. I will agree that some classes need a little more help in numbers than another. Point Buy may not be perfectly balanced. But it does ensure more balance than stat rolling may end up allowing. You might still have people hogging...

Most of the games I have played in have started at 1st. There was one that started at 7th or 8th. We had an immediate problem in that game where we didn't know eachothers abilities - we really didn't know our own abilities so it got off to a very rough start. I would prefer about 3rd level...

Jet Li. Oh... wait... Someone who does that others can/will not. Someone that puts themselves in the line of fire to protect someone else. Someone that will gladly cross the line between Brave and Stupid because it is what needs to be done.

We killed a pirate and took his stuff. Including his boat. Since that time we have been attacked by pirates on a couple of occations (also known as when I suspect our DM ran out of ideas for that week). I think my PC has captured three pirate flags. Oh... and... um... Arrr! Fergit what I...

Depends on the cow: Some of them I would protect with my dying breath (Classes, levels, hp) Some of them I don't care that much about (AC vs Armor as DR) Some of them I'd be the one to fire up the grill (Vancian magic - I just don't like it)

And that is great. Going back to my Runt Rogue, I'm trying to recall what I did contribute and I'm coming up fairly dry. I'm sure I opened locks and disabled traps but there aren't any that stand out in my mind (the fact that this character was 5 years old or so doens't help, I'm sure). I...

Interesting. In our group the powergamers would prefer rolling. I think tt is because it would give them a chance to get uber-characters which is denied in point-buy. Or at least is denied in our point-buy of 28 points. Maybe powergamers prefer point-buy in groups that go with 32 or 38 or...

I am a huge advocate of point buy. Our group used to roll for stats and I was fine with it at the time. That was until we started our last campaign where we rolled the stats. We had a session where we created our characters before the campaign actually started. We used the 4d6 drop lowest...

I voted 'Interpretive + House'. We try to stay RAW for the vast majority of the situations and to stay with House Rules As Written (HRAW?). But there have been some situations where we looked at the house rules, said some grandmother unfriendly terms to described how we felt about them in that...

Tabletop or do computer games count? My first D&D exposure was through Pool of Radiance on the Commodore 64 in the mid 80s. My first tabletop game was somewhere in the early 90s.

Depends on if I have leveled or not. If I have not leveled - I usually just spend the time to write a journal entry between sessions which usually just takes a few minutes. If I have leveled then there are spell lists to consider, a character sheet to update, my current character has...

I don't this is stepping on the toes of the Warlock at all. Following in the design style of it, yes, but it is its own thing. The Warlock has the benefit of range while this class (at first glance at least) is going to be more of a melee class (due to range of the breath weapon). I see this...

I'm getting a "Service Unavailable" message. The D&D site seems to be down quite often for me. The main wizards page is usually up, but this time both the main page and the D&D page give me the above message.

What the others have said... I don't even mind it if they 'simplify' some stuff for space reasons. I know the Mindlink power from the XPH has been reprinted in other books (for those that don't have the XPH) and it isn't quite the same. I don't have the books in front of me so I'm not sure...

I did not answer the poll since there wasn't any thing even close to what I wanted to say. My answer would be - Yes, but only if I needed to roll 100 sets of 5d6 damage (or similar). Our group has no problem rolling 20 dice of spell damage. We have no problem rolling "decent" (take 'decent' to...