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I hope they break the fixed ranger class in 5th ed. so we'll have something to complain about for the 6th.

I'd like to see more open-ended speculation in 5th edition and less specialized rumormongering about specific classes that we've experienced with 4th ed.

I see it as sort of a video-game/comic-book-superhero mentality. Your character "power" or super-ability must not be easily depleted before other members in your party. It changes the default assumption that magic (arcane or divine) is a resource that overlays mundane reality -- i.e. when...

This tells me that 4th edition is geared toward Thursday night play, and that it will involve whiteboard lectures. I'm intrigued.

There should be a new section on the board set aside for 5th edition rumors and updates. I'm already tired with 4th ed.

They're not less powerful than humans. It's just that a few minor tweeks have already been added -- at the expense of a feat and skill points -- that a lot of players get grumpy about. Their racial benefits ARE approximately equivalent to a human feat investment and skill point per level, but...

I agree that it does have that potential, IF the players are willing to recognize it as such. Experience on this board has shown that there's a mixed perspective of its utility, however, much like how people feel about the wizard's familiar. There are ways to water-down a powerful ability. In...

Suggestions posted here to take up some other class miss the mark -- this guy wants to know if bardic knowledge is worth a feat, not how he can change classes to get the ability. With that in mind, I'd say that yes, it is worth a feat. Consider other equivalencies that have appeared in...

Have there been new spells in supplemental texts cited specifically for access by the "Complete Warrior" hexblade class?

If the PC can't speak common, he can't access any of the party benefits like life insurance spells, treasure shares, etc. Common is the official language; we don't provide translators for minorities.

First, I'd cut all the adjectives and adverbs and most prepositional phrases. Then delete the sorcerer class entirely. Get rid of the stupid instant-PC examples at the end of each class description. All the art. Shrink the font size by a point or two (package the book with a free magnifying...

After reading this thread, I've decided "evil" is anyone who doesn't agree with me.

I remember several games when I was younger in which we would painstakingly map every length and turn specifically because we knew the DM was likely to cram a secret corridor or extra room in the spaces between. (What we might now call a "Tetris dungeon" -- it was long before that game hit the...

At any particular moment during the game, it largely depends on whether the players are emulating their characters' mapmaking ability or whether the DM is trying to convey a scene clearly. For example, "No, the room is octagonal with three pillars near the middle, like *this*," versus "The hall...

I'm sorry, K.M., but the mere presence of a category does not imply an equal distribution.

I must have missed that section of descriptive text.

I've tried to fix your message, as noted in boldface below:

No, I believe the word you're looking for is "PirateCat."

Follow-up Question The followup: How many DMs actually bother to put these kinds of descriptors into their PC spell feedback? ... for example, the lycanthropy-afflicted mayor is driven by an omnipresent desire to taste blood and has no compunctions about eating anything that moves, versus he's...

It's all a matter of perspective. ... Good people can usually identify someone else as being evil or acting in an evil manner, but those same evil-doers rarely ever consider themselves by the same label -- admittedly selfish or self-serving, perhaps, or merely misunderstood. But those who do...