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Yeah, I never really had any complaints about the BECMI weapons table with it's sword, two-handed sword, and short sword entries - but with most other versions of D&D, I find myself constantly thinking "I'm gonna re-do all these with actual names... no, wait, none of my players care so that's...

My favorite character is a toss up between one that I played the longest (and incorporate as a helpful-but-not-able-to-solve-all-your-problems NPC from time-to-time in campaigns I DM), and one that I only got to play for a handful of sessions. The former is a wizard named Ramathus, who is...

I think I wouldn't have a problem letting the spikes grow out of the cliff too... but I also think I'd ask the player "If the cliff face is part of the ground, are wall part of the floor?" to see if they were reasoning things out and thinking spikes should come out of the cliff, or were just...

That's a thing I didn't realize was true until you said it. Thought that bit only applied to ranged spell attacks like the second bullet point.

The spell in question specifies "melee attack with a weapon", so you can not throw a weapon and satisfied the spell's requirements (and there is no such thing as "Melee Ranged Attacks", though there is such a thing as a Ranged Weapon Attack made using a melee weapon, which is what happens when...

It seems to me that you are misjudging what Imaculata was saying. It wasn't that a trap should never be hard or impossible to notice. It's that how the room is described shouldn't be without some kind of thing related to the trap for the player to begin to engage with. To use your desk...

Vaguely, yes. When I ran those modules, my players achieved extreme levels of off-book action, so I don't think they even saw any Aspis. I remember them brokering a deal for a dragon to attack the city, and sea battles, but not any dungeon-crawling, to give a hint at exactly how off-book things...

I was asking for those, actually. Just not... it's hard to think of a phrasing that can't be read as insulting... I want to say "Just not as loudly as people have asked for other things", but I also want it noted that I mean "loud" only as a measurement of intensity, not as a value judgement...

Thanks. I laughed out loud when reading this, and said "Well... duh." even though no one was around to hear me. So thanks for that too. My error actually ended up being trying too hard to remember; I was doing all the addition before the subtraction, because I remembered the acronym and what...

Cool. Then, if nothing else I planned to do today gets done, I can at least count gaining understanding of someone else's point of view as a thing I did today. That's a bit tricky. I'm glad to have monk (chocolate), and psion (peanut butter, left out of the core game because of common allergic...

That sounds really rough. Don't sweat venting some frustration at me, I can take it. Just wanted you to know I wasn't meaning to pile on any frustrations. Since I too am parked on the forum at the moment to help me ignore that my plans for the day have gone to pot for no more reason than that...

Pretty much.

I saw fighter, specialist, and dart in the same sentence and immediately starting having AD&D flashbacks of "muscle-powered-machine-gun" fighters.

So, for you, would you say it is more important that the delivery mechanism of the benefits not feel too much like the delivery mechanism used by other character concepts than it is that the benefits delivered be directly comparable? If yes, I feel I understand your point of view on warlord...

Natural attacks count as natural attacks. By which I mean they do not count as weapons for anything that actually requires a weapon, and are allowed to be used to make melee weapon attacks However, many features in the game benefit melee weapon attacks, rather than melee attacks made with...

I apologize for how me interpreting you saying, "...although there could be more." as an opportunity to mention what more there is for the benefit of anyone that might be curious made you feel. It was not my intention to make you feel nitpicked.

Can you unpack this a bit? I tried to use your formula and I came out with a result that I know can't be right (+11 attack bonus, 12.35 average damage per hit, came out to maximum AC to power attack against of 11).

Optional combat rules in the DMG specifically for disarming, and of course the "improvising an action" sidebar in the PHB.

This touches on one of the things that I get really frustrated by when I am using published adventure material. I try to channel that frustration into something positive by making a kind of joke out of it for my group and I to all laugh at, such as with the following type of comments as I run...

It's no pain for me, that's why I put 'afflicted' rather than afflicted. I love being DM. It's a natural part of me, and I live and breath it. All of my hobbies that I've had so far in life end up as a means to feed something into my being a DM (Art? Game aids, character portraits, miniatures...