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I'd prefer a more unified system. That makes it easier to ensure all the races and classes are being treated in a fair/balanced manner. The unified Fear mechanics would then be implemented by individual monsters. So, Mesh Hong has some good ideas IMO. There should be different sorts of Fear -...

Was there a point to this comment, other than to snarkily imply that the people who have had a lot of fun playing in (and therefore have fond memories of) these "non-existent settings" are somehow less rational than the cool, logical (almost Vulcan-like, you might say) "I pretend to be an elven...

No kidding. The lack of Dragonborn and the existence of Chessenta have been bugging me since the Grey Box and I, for one, welcome this long wished-for change. :confused: Okay, but all bitterness about how the FRCS isn't remotely the Forgotten Realms that Ed Greenwood campaigned in any more...

Emphasis added. RL campaigns aren't normal campaigns. They definitely have a different mood and feel, which I discussed on this thread. (Please forgive the "world vs. demiplane" dicussion/tangent; the discussion on themes picks up again later in the thread and the last couple posts are quite...

Think of them like HP. Do you decide for yourself when your PC has taken enough sword-smacks to the face, or do you let the rules decide. Of course you go with the latter. It's just the game's way of saying "You have reached your character's limits." Same for San/Fear/Horror.

This would be great by my standards, but I run my Gods/Churches a bit differently than the 'standard'. IMC Gods don't have alignments but the alignments given in the PHB are the alignments of the most common/most powerful sect/church of that god in the world. So a Paladin that did this would...

Being the impatient fellow I am, I have no interest in awaiting Wizards attempts (if any; we have no guarantees) to make a 4E version of Ravenloft. Instead I am jumping straight in to develop a few rule systems which would "layer over" the current 4E game to create the appropriate feel and tenor...

That's probably wise. Just treat them like Masterwork equipment. Another tweak though might be to introduce that you need Masterwork tools and a MW Forge to work with MW weapons and armor, or the special various materials available to 4E.

Oh, you were making the argument that you just can't do a 4E version of Ravenloft at present? My apologies; I misunderstood. Let me be clear then: You're wrong. You still have races and classes, advance by means of levels, and often kill things (even if they don't have stuff to take). All the...

I've seen so many various "Flaws" systems abused so often and easily that I cannot condone this course of action. Just looking at your first suggestion (Skills +1/-1) I can already tell it's a bad idea; the PC will just take a -1 on skills they'd never use anyway. Same with feats. What's a -4 to...

There's a lot of similar alternatives for this out there. Which one did you ultimately decide worked best for you?

I think the case is made, rather than could be. I had a thread discussing what Ravenloft's core elements were a couple weeks ago and I am still sort of mulling over what rules I would implement in a Ravenloft campaign. Below are my current thoughts, but I wouldn't call them firm. The first...

That's a really good point. I was trying to peg "Rorschach", rather than Walter Kovacs. I'm not sure they have different alignments though. One thing the D&D alignment system doesn't capture is the level of "intensity" with which one practices their alignment. Most understand there's a...

They were probably misled by reading the DMG. Shame on them! ;) So ... Paladins are lawful in D&D because the Gods are occasionally physically apparent (and can be visited at-will by high level priests to be questioned on the finer points of catechism), but they would by Chaotic in the real...

I think it would be more accurate to say that "Where we find there's a 50% to-hit probability 98% of the time, we can assume that "50% to-hit" is the intended probability and that the last 2% are errors in design or printing."

This looks really neat. I'm looking forward to employees rules, because (IME) I have only gamed with one player's PC (ever) who took on all three roles you describe above (purchasing, crafting and sales). Most PCs that engage in merchanting usually focus on only one of those and farm out the...

If you're giving it to the whole group, just give it to the whole group. No need to make them take a feat for it. Feats exist to keep PCs balanced against other members of the group. If everyone has it, then it's already balanced.

I like keeping them for the same reason I like humans as a race - they aren't specialized, but they're the most widely useful. It's always allowing the tradeoff of Flaming or Luck vs. that dependable +1 damage to everything.

Um, so you're agreeing with me? I'm just confused because I think you just restated exactly what I said. Or was there something more?

Yeah? That's sort of what I was asking; if the damage bonus alone (without the attack bonus) was enough to balance the items of different levels. If at all possible I'd like to avoid changing the damage values, just because I know they're already balanced with the MM's HP totals and I don't...