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See, I include that as part of my Happy Lairs, Happy Denizens Dungeonowners Insurance package. As a humble assurancer with The Greater Abyssal Employees Insurance COnsotrium (GAEICO for short) I provide several reasonable packages for those who understand their lives, afterlives, or painful...

You mean like Spell Cards. Which have existed since at least 2e as an option and been made by people who enjoy recipe/note cards probably since the dawn of the hobby. And again, you don't seem to understand this topic. 3e lays out 'Here is what we think a Barbarian is." Now, I can take that...

I just want a Paladin who can walk in and slay for their beliefs or deity. I don't need a mount, I don't need to cast a bunch of meh effective spells. I want to be able to speak a prayer, then kick in a door and cause problems. Of course, my favorite Paladin was a Barbarian... So I guess that...

Cards that contain information on specific abilities? Well then, 2e was retroactively designed using the 4e design philosophy: And the idea was great. Being able to tune to your specific desires? Fantastic. Using the idea that splitting your character's levels into artificial steps...

Being the third biggest game is a hell of a drop off. Also WHFRP's movements towards a more boardy experience isn't necessarily a shout out to 4e (moreso a nod to Warhammer Fantasy). One of the great parts of pre-3e was the prevalence of those house rules. When Usenet came about you started...

I feel that there was a real falloff between Kublai Khan and its sequels Kublai Khan 2: Electric Bugaloo, KK3: Beyond Pleasure-Dome, and of course the disaster of his later project Why Am I Covered In Invisible Spiders? Sigh. The life of a poet. Slainte, -Loonook.

So by exploiting a specific location in the rules to destroy the metagame is bad? Now remember that, as written in the Core, Diplomacy changes attitudes in a minimum of 1 minute (-10 penalty gives it to you in a round). In the same location it also explains that in some situations that that...

A.) Doesn't deal with all of it. B.) You mean a game where actual errata is applied can be balanced? The problem is that, for want of balance 4e became kind of boring. I think of 4e as the Ikea edition. Modular in its specific use, functional but not exactly flashy, and built with simplicity...

Just going to leave this here: http://community.wizards.com/charop/wiki/Broken/Broken Where there's a(n at) will.... Slainte, -Loonook.

Ehh, you just learn after awhile. I like to have plenty of PCs, NPCs, and others available for the party to pick up if they're missing a slot or want a change of pace. In my old campaign I let players maintain ~ 2 extra 'on call' PCs spread across the regions we covered, and then have 4 other...

Yeah. That doesn't sound like a horrible concept for a character, and is completely within the purview of their deity. You could have always offered to have the player play an additional PC, run the game without them, or had them playing an NPC or other available character. Just blatantly...

Lots of cowardly fighters out there? I've seen one done, well, and that's about it. A Paladin taking him under his wing, giving him some guts, and getting him moving. Just basic character development. And the Pacifist Priest? Between healing, blessings, and protection, and other means a...

Uhhuh. So you intentionally used inflammatory language to cause an effect? I kind of figured that after looking through your post history. IF you actually wish to discuss a topic, using that sort of language doesn't really run very well here. It's been a year, so be cognizant of the fact...

Yes. It is a silly desire to play your concept. No, the problem is where a player like DA specifically places a lot of work and background, justifies his feat choices, is functional... But just to provide something beyond a one-shot-and-done challenge you're building 6-8 CR above the...

If one specifically focuses on breaking the accepted gameplay of a table, it is a breaking strain. Just like every other individual choice you make at the table regarding your character, you need to be in sync with the group. While the definition of 'ineffective' is vague but within a specific...

DA has my number one pet peeve. The only truly bad optimizer is one who attempts to push optimization onto other players, uses their specific optimization as a detriment to players or the game, or who cannot accept any circumstances that would leave them suboptimal for any length of time...

Mt. Washington is a scary place. Highest recorded wind speed, and the MW Observatory team are hilarious for showing how bad it gets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC3DUwseZn8 It is a deceptive little mount. I love the 'breakfast' video with the flying cereal, but to get the real dangers of...

First, your numbers seem alright. Personally I use a Walk/March/Ride system for large population centers. I like to include the largest portion of the population within a day's walk of the center. A day's march is probably the farthest a ruler will send out troops to protect, and you're...

You're not figure in the cost of a house, clothing, tools, durable goods, or other items acquired over a lifetime. That cost provides for what you can assume a peasant would have available in their home, losses, etc. A peasant family who has somehow acquired a home (5000 GP per 3.x) from...

Canals can be useful, and were used in medieval times on a small scale for quarrying or other purposes. The real trouble is trying to maintain these canals. S'mon RE: your boosting of wages. There comes the slippery slope. While we are discussing self-sufficiency in the previous posts, the...