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And yet SO many people in life do...

Point of Fact: Clerics in Darksun actually are OK...they just have to have a relationship with the elementals, not deities.

For Felicia? Whatever she wants...mmmmm.... Seriously, though, I'd probably not be too concerned about mechanics, as in I'd allow the gnome mechanics, since many of them could be written off as psionic wild talents or such. As for exploring the gnome thing further? It would just depend on how...

Wow. That's dedication. I guess my only response to a person who puts that level of detail into a concept absent a campaign to play it in, is that they should really give DMing a shot.

Devil's advocate, but I think the overwhelming amount of supplemental material was the proof that you absolutely needed DM approval before making character decisions. No DM should have been expected to incorporate any and every book published in that era, and that held true with the people I...

JUST for the sake of discussion (because really, my answer would be no), let's imagine that Chris Hardwick, Wil Wheaton, Nathan Fillion, and Felicia Day called me and said they REALLY wanted me to DM a Dark Sun game for them, but Felicia REALLY wants to play a gnome. OK, fine. She can play a...

And it's YOUR fault we TPK'd! I knew objectively in character that your longsword was poorly weighted and caused less damage than it should have. Jerk!

I just keep hearing Forrest Gump saying, "Stupid is as stupid does."

See one of the disconnects for me in this discussion is that it wouldn't even cross my mind to make a character that I actually plan on playing until I've heard the campaign pitch. Only after a DM has given me the ground rules do I go about coming up with a concept. There are just WAY too many...

Again, personal opinion/experience, but I feel like some of this stems from societal expectations. For whatever reason, it is socially unacceptable to judge another person's intelligence. It's perfectly OK to objectively prove that you are faster or stronger than someone else, even to boast...

You know, my personal experience (which is statistically a VERY narrow pool, so YMMV) has been that people who don't enjoy optimizing (or the aspect of combing through books to find synergistic rules and comparing statistical outcomes) still appreciate their character being as good as it can be...

When I first started gaming in my early 20's, I was really drawn to the rules and focused a lot on optimizing. I still enjoy it, and it plays a significant part in my character development. I usually will find a cool combination and work backwards to develop a good character around it. However...

Followed by: And then... Could somebody please define FAIL for me? Sidepoint: There is something SERIOUSLY wrong with an encounter that breaks down with the variation of a d6 to a d8.

I agree. In that situation, as described, the DM is definitely in the wrong. I admittedly had been coming at this whole discussion from the perspective of starting a new campaign, but that does bring up an interesting side point about a game that is already in progress. One more reason to make...

This is personal opinion and not heavily researched, but I feel like part of the problem is the shift in the cultural perception of what "heaven" and an afterlife is supposed to be. It seems to me that the afterlife historically was all about reward and threat of punishment. Respect the gods (or...

I'd be tempted to houserule magic ammunition as unbreakable. You'll only be able to fire it once during a combat, but you have a 100% chance of recovering it post-combat, regardless of a hit or miss. This would make getting a single piece of ammunition as treasure less disappointing.

Technically, they are no longer magical once they HIT your target. If you miss, you'd have a 50% at recovering it by spending a minute searching. Still not amazing, but slightly better than losing the magic once it's fired.

Not to go off topic from the OP, but I am curious how you go about this. I had one DM go ad lib with a campaign once, but it really was just that he lost interest in running the game and started just having us fight random monsters. The game very shortly thereafter ended. What's your technique...

Thus proving the absolute benefit of interviewing potential players.

I'm glad intelligence got devalued from 3.5, to be honest. I think far too many characters had unrealistically high intelligence scores to maximize skill points, so suddenly adventurers were all geniuses. I'm going to sound like a jerk, but I find it more jarring when an average to low...