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I like save or die. But I think it should only be used for very special climactic moments.

A fourth sacred cow that kept us in the physical hit point paragdim: Cure light wounds. So, in closing- I think the best way to get people to understand how damage might be interpreted in the future is to stop using the term "healing" to refer to hp replacement. "Damage" makes sense because...

I find many remnants in 3.0 and 3.5 to a much cooler damage system that seemed to have gotten scrapped. Take for instance the wounding weapon trait. When it did damage it would do a point of Con damage. Also take for instance the Vampire, draining blood did Con damage. However normal...

This is from the 3.5 SRD; Note the "What Hit Points Represent" line: This is from the 3.0 SRD; So we see there is a precedence for hit points not being a measure of injury, but also of luck and skill in avoiding damage. There is a sidebar in the 3.0 or 3.5 DMG or PHB (I can't remember...

These really are not playtest reports. They are game summaries. I really don't care what happened in the game unless it pertains to the new mechanics. A playtest report tells me what problems were encountered due to mechanics, how the game flowed, what things worked well in the game and what...

Garnfellows post needs to be crossposted at the Wizards boards or Gleemax or whatever they call it right now. All in all I don't think there is enough information out about 4e to really answer the questions people have about it. In other words, to quote a computer from a great scifi story...

The next Monte is The Full Monte. Moridin: So true, someone has to design those "fijords." Every team needs a Slartibartfast. "Thr ranger's track ability in 4e... Yeah, that was me."

Lineage of the Crown: Consuls Gygax and Arneson create D&D, greatly expanding the TSR Republic 1st gaming civil war- Gygax Sides with House Blume. Consul Arneson is exiled. Gygax takes much territory with his creation of AD&D. The Consulship of Arneson is allowed to persist and passes down...

I think 3.5 is pretty robust with a few medium tweaks until you start getting 6th level spells. But from levels 1-10 it is pretty solid. If you limit your campaign to level 10 and add the right tweaks (spells lvl 6+ are almost impossible to get and even then are crazy rituals, easier access to...

Names to start with: Noonan Mearls JC Wilkes Rich Baker James Wyatt Greg Bilsland Scott Rouse Michelle Carter Cordell

I think the info page would do well to have a list of the dev blogs that often have 4e tidbits. Naturally it would be a list of links to those blogs...

Actually, I am going to use this in my next campaign. Thanks.

I agree with Asmor. Feed the sword, get the abilities. I would make the pommel look like a gold dragon's mouth, and you have to stuff the wealth in piece by piece. Thus it takes a couple of days to feed and the slaying abilities last until it has helped to kill a red dragon. Also you could...

In Latin the nominative plural of Bonus is Boni. The problem is to use that form the plural bonus must be the subject of the sentance and not an object. If it is an object it should be bonis or bonos depending on what kind of object. How Bono can use the Accusative or Dative Singular forms...

That would work. But leaving blue Dragons out vs. giving me a generic dragon stat and telling me how to make one blue- is a very different monster.

It is interesting how people consider Dumbledore. For most of the series he is considered the upstanding scholar- which is simply Harry's perception.

I really could care less about Frost Giants, I just figure you have Giants of Cold in Norse Myths and you have Howards Frost Giants. What I am really talking about is that if they can take out frost giants why not string us along and take out assorted dragons and other creatures (which I expect...

Frost Giants as D&D knows them most likely come from the Robert E. Howard Conan story "The Frost Giant's Daughter." Thus the argument that they are Fantasy Public Domain Monsters.

Irda, That is a good point. It begs a clarification: At that point when I said 3.5 SRD, I really meant the stuff that the Legend/FairyTale/GenericFantasy S&S monster, what I have now realised is the "Public Domain Monster" category. Take the Monster books for WarhammerRPG2.0, Gurps...

Giants living in clouds are inspired by the story "Jack and the Beanstock." A lot of D&D tropes come from the Jack vs. Giants Fairy Tale Cycle.