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Ah but thats just it, the question isnt whether a blade through the heart will make the swordsman die, but more what does the peasant girl have to do to get the blade through his heart? With the way hit points have always worked in D&D, it really is next to impossible to incorporate a rule for...

Unfortunately, theres really no way to fix that without inserting a large amount of imbalance into combat. If an invisible player rogue can systematically one shot a same level fighter in the rules, whats to stop an unseen sniper with a crossbow from putting a bolt between that same rogues eyes...

This is an issue that is pretty difficult to solve unless you have determined a conclusive way that you are going to rationalize the abstarction of hit points. Once you have an idea on that, then you have a starting point with which you can measure the difference between minions and...

To arrive at this conclusion, you have to make several key (and, IMO, flawed) assumptions. The first being that a significant number of people continue to buy WOTC products only because Paizo (or any third party publisher) puts out supplemental material. I think this assumption is way off the...

I have to say that it would be extremely tempting to read the full length and breadth of the rules... mainly so that I can get a head start on the (extensive) conversion work I will be doing on my homebrew campaign world. I have the core set, plus an extra 4 PHBs on preorder and nothing is going...

From the perspective of someone who has never really followed the whole 3rd party publisher movement, I'm surprised at how surprised a lot of you are over WOTC's decision to do this. From what has been said in the thread so far, Nick is a paid employee of a publisher that has recently put itself...

You are assuming however that the 4E system takes DM arbitration completely out of the equation, making the DM a slave to the players die rolls. This is a pretty big assumption. I highly doubt that the DMG states that a DM must allow any skill check regardless of whether or not the skill the PC...

I have to agree with Xorn on the point of finding it next to impossible to run a complex, story-driven campaign with OD&D. Maybe it is just lack of experience on my part, as I never played OD&D much before I got into AD&D... but the framework just doesnt seem cut out for the type of games I run...

Has anyone considered that this may be looked at from the wrong viewpoint? Perhaps they're going the opposite direction from what people are afraid of. We already know that the GSL was designed to be more restrictive than the OGL was. Perhaps it was too restrictive as designed from the WOTC...

That episode is sooo gonna get TIVO'd by me...

I chose other, simply because I can't limit my types of druid that I like to one type. I really do like the idea of Nature, Plant, Weather, Spirit, and Shaper druids equally. Likely, whichever of those subsets that are not covered in the PHBII version of the 4E Druid will make an appearance as...

You can also look at cinematic depictions of Zombies to argue that sleep and mind effects should impact them... after all, what is the common method of killing a zombie in movies? Injury to the brain. In such films it would seem that Zombies still need brain activity to function, and if that is...

One thing to keep in mind for all those suggesting that Cohorts be balanced by XP or Level cost to the player that controls them: WOTC is designing fourth edition around nothing costing experience. In fact, for balance purposes they even suggest that if a PC dies during an adventure or misses an...

I must concur with DM Blake and say that I would strongly prefer that there not be a "rule" regarding what to do with items upon a PCs death. This is something that should be decided primarily between the DM and their group, and no solution will work for everyone. Also, since "wealth per level"...

Unless I've completely missed something, though, I dont believe that WOTC has definitively excluded there ever being cohorts and followers... however, none of the base classes will have them at release. I think it is entirely reasonable that they will include them in future PHBs or DMGs if they...

I apologize if my original post implied that all people who play characters with a Two-weapon fighting style are drizzt fans, that was not what I intended... though I can see how the way I worded it can be taken as such. I simply meant that for those people that are fans of Drizzt, a ranger...

In my opinion, the shift away from Vancian magic and the advent of At-Will powers for everyone is enough to make it at least even to 3E as far as Crunch changes from previous additions. Everything else pushes 4E right over the edge. (In a good way IMO, I have liked 95% of the crunch changes...

Count me in on the Druid-excitement! This gives me hope that by the time I'm ready to start my 4E campaign, I will at least have enough of an idea to make a working make-shift druid to fill in for some NPCs til the real thing gets released. I also like the sound of it so far (though my current...

To be honest, in a situation like that if a Player is willing to spend a full round of actions (standard + move) to put out the fire, I would give him an automatic success to his save. The same would go for any status effect that could be removed in some reasonable way. If the player wants to...

I like this idea, especially the bit about making an opportunity attack when the opponent misses. They could make this an encounter power at lower levels or an at will power at higher levels, I would think...