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Did the shield dwarf steal the Defender theme from the cleric of Moradin, or did he play with the Reaper theme? Heh, this kind of makes me want to see the all-wizard party.

I disagree with this. In my view, the iconics of 1E were the original Greyhawk characters of Gygax's campaigns. The iconics of 2E were the characters from the major novels (Raistlin, Drizzt, etc). I think ignoring these two sources ignores a huge number of characters that really formed the...

What about - no stat bonuses - humans can gain advantage on any single roll, once per day. Relatively simple, always useful, very adaptable.

Why not focus on another of the "Big 4" nations? Eberron has always seemed very "Breland-centric" to me. Pick another major power and present the world through the lens of that power.

I'm with Keldryn. Advancing a setting timeline has been done before, and it has always hurt the setting, especially if major changes have happened. And if major changes have not happened, why bother advancing the timeline? I don't think we've ever seen a timeline advance that has been an...

I don't think so. Tithing represents a sacrifice of wealth. It is supposed to sting a little. Whereas a quest or adventure is what the paladin was going to do anyways. It's not really a sacrifice for the paladin to go on an quest. I think tithing to be restricted to more liquid forms of...

I would argue that the brilliance of the OGL/d20 licence is that it speaks to the soul of D&D. D&D has always been a creative game, especially for DMs. We make adventures, villains, dungeons, house rules, stories, worlds, cities, pantheons. And we have a natural inclination to want to share our...

Am I the only one who liked 3E's covers? They just seemed a bit classier and timeless to me. Realistic artwork always seems to look dated after a few years, especially when you look at hairstyles or ornamentation. I might like something more abstract. Maybe stark silhouettes, or something that...

I don't understand the relationship. I signed up for the playtest, signed the forms, got the email, but just couldn't access the files on the server. So I found a torrent on a torrent site, and downloaded it that way. I still got the feedback survey email from WotC.

Adventurers are also not really the norm. Most churches tithes are probably centered around more about normal life. Like a church tithe might be 10% of the harvest for farmers, and the harvest stands in for your total income. Or if you operate a shop, it's strictly 10% of sales. For...

Think of gridless combat more like directing a movie fight scene. "What" a character does becomes more important than "how" she does it. Actual positions are nebulous and change rapidly enough so that most actions work. One thing you might want to try is using 2E's method of announcing actions...

Just wondering if anyone has tried swapping themes among the pregen characters? Like taking the Guardian theme from the Cleric of Moradin and giving it to the Fighter. And then giving the Slayer theme to the Rogue, or Cleric. Or doing something silly like giving the Magic-User theme to the...

Umbran cited a stock market downturn as an "unpredictable" event. I disagreed. A stock market downturn is an "inevitable" event. Not being prepared for an inevitable event is a clear mistake by management, in my books.

That's often true. But not always. The classic example is Diabolic Edict: "Target player sacrifices a creature." Here the sacrifice is the effect, not the cost.

This is a poor example. It's still a mistake on the part of the company. Funding departments out of the interest earned on a semi-risky investment? The stock market has fallen multiple times in the past 20 years. It doesn't take a genius to see that it would fall again at some point. The hard...

Dying means that a creature goes from the battlefield to the graveyard. A creature can die from damage, being destroyed, or being sacrificed. Destroyed means the creature goes from the battlefield to the graveyard. But if the creature has regeneration, you can regenerate that creature, and thus...

As far as I can see, the majority of people who are tweaking the rules are tweaking from the very beginning. "I didn't like the idea of X, so I changed it before we started playing."

Why not just have the PCs delay until the last PC's intitiative comes up, then all move at the same time?

The rules do specifically state that mighty villains and special NPCs can follow the same rules as PCs. The DM can have them fall unconscious and start dying. Dead at 0 for monsters is more a shortcut for the DM in the vast majority of cases.

The Unseen University of Ankh-Morpork?