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My greatest concern is that for every great playtest comment I give (and let's face it, I'm a genius) there will be someone else (and let's face it, other people are idiots) who will say the opposite. And then WotC (let's face it, a heartless, money-grabbing corporate machine) will ignore me...

I don't understand this fetish with "core", "optional", "rarity" etc. To quote (well, paraphrase) modern game philosopher Zak S., "Life is to short to care about PCs, your jaguar man is in". Say, you have a 5th level 3E party. That's a total of 5 races, maybe 10 classes, ca. 15 feats, maybe two...

Cleric: "Leave me alone. In-combat healing is a purely metagame construct." Rogue: "STFU and get Durgosh back up! We're being swarmed here!" Durgosh: "MEDIC!!!" *gah grr bleed cough* As for the OP's question, I think the defender role was invented in Ancient Greece with the phalanx formation...

Huh? So the Fighter in Full Plate should be easier to hit than the Wizard in robe? How do you explain that? And why would any group put the AC 15 Fighter on the front when they have an AC 20 Wizard? As for tracking aggro as DM, I'd simply not bother. It just creates fiddly things to keep track...

This thread needs a haiku. Fireball in the dark Trail of smoldering corpses Bat guano smell

I've been toying with a similar idea. Bouncy Gelatinous Cube: Exceptional Bonuses I like that you get an easy transition between ability score and roll: d20 + bonus has a 50% of rolling higher than the ability score. That makes it easy to implement things like defense rolls or automatic success...

In 3.5? Are you kidding? The general consensus is that the Cleric is tier 1, the Fighter is tier 5. Note that tier 6 is the Commoner. Tier System for Classes And really, this discussion was finished around 2007, nothing I can add here. Ignore it at your own peril. Meh. As DM, I want to run a...

At the table, in your campaign, D&D only ever consists of 5 classes... the classes your players chose. (+ a few for multiclass but let's keep it simple, shall we?) Now, whether they chose 5 out of 5, or 5 out of 555, doesn't matter. At all. The classes that aren't currently played in your...

Sorry for getting slightly off topic, but I've read this 100 times and it's still BS... 4th edition is not a good video game rules set. It was never designed with video games in mind. Just look at the whole action economy: 4th edition has tons of interrupts and other off-turn powers. That's...

Hey, they should give the Monte position to Lady Gaga! That would be a heck of a game! That said, I don't get the big deal about being a fan of this company that company. With cars, ok. If you buy a Porsche, it costs like a years salary of an average guy. Chances are you won't have the dough...

No! You got it backwards! It's completely fine that Wizards and Clerics can choose between combat, exploration and interaction spells. The problem is the attitude that fighters and rogues are supposed to "balance each other" by having one suck in combat and the other out of it. It would be...

Huh? Too bad. Well, speculation won't help here. If Monte wants to disclose his reasons he'll do so, if not, we'll just have to accept the fact. Let's hope the 5E train will move on.

The whole idea of unbalancing classes along combat / exploration / interaction needs to go die in a fire. Fighters only combat? Rogues only exploration? The Wizard laughs at both of you. Isn't it funny that Fighters and Rogues are supposed to sit around and watch if their non-special element...

I first read the thread title as "What can BESM offer D&D Next?" and got a little excited, but then I realized it's just another same-as-the-usual D&D thread. Ah well. Rules Cyclopedia skill system: Never read it. "lost" details about the core demihuman races: Sounds like an early predecessor...

That's the cruel Internet for you... I tried to think of something constructive, or at least thought-provoking to say, but couldn't think of anything. I think your writeup would be more interesting if you could come up with some reason how the different elves came to be as they currently are...

SNARKY REPLY THAT IGNORES YOUR POINT AND QUESTIONS HOW SOMEONE LIKE YOU DARES TO CALL HIMSELF D&D FAN!!1!Q! Regarding the article, I want to be able to make a divine caster who is blatant and unsubtle in his spells and wears a robe. That's the opposite of #2 and #3. Now, this PC doesn't need to...

If D&D was a sports team: * In every game, there is only one team on the field * There is no championship * Every TV would show a different game * You can easily transfer the best player from the champion to your home team * If you want, you can play with the 1974 champion team, forever *...

Gary Gygax is on record on this very forum where he said that 3E just isn't the same game. But if you really want to be crucified for this opinion, try posting it on Welcome to Dragonsfoot . Good luck. Or maybe you'd rather suggest it here? http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-4th-edition-discussion/

While of course a significant portion of gamers think that D&D3.5 was the "last good build", I'm not sure whether it's the majority. I'd like to see a poll on that (maybe I should start one?) However, if my memories of 3.5 heydays serve me correctly, it wasn't universally loved even then...

You're spot on, but I really want people to stop with that kind of behavior. I've already started a thread about that but D&D editions aren't football teams. You don't need to self-identify with them just because you attend a game every Sunday. The choice of rules system isn't even the biggest...