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And just to contrast with some artwork that can be found on japanese rolelplaying books, in order to round out the thread... The cover of the japanese Call of Cthulhu book. Got to say, this one reminds me a lot of Silent Hill...Harry Mason and his daughter fighting the Great Old Ones? Sounds...

Looking at the description in the old MM, those warning signs would be something like "Roughly 500 feet ahead of you, you see a small herd of very weird animals. Massive bodies, long tails equipped with some sort of knob on the end, very long and thin necks that curve downwards to a head that is...

As it stands right now, 4E is not going to see my money. On the other hand, in the highly improbable case of some of the current 3.X celebrities (Paizo, Necromancer, GR) putting up a think tank and publishing a "3.75" variant of D&D, I'd actually buy it sight unseen, simply because I've been...

Folks, do us all a favour and don't bring the lock down on this thread by starting personal arguments, okay? There are report buttons and ignore lists for exactly those cases. :)

Right, because no crit can take a character from full to dead in the blink of an eye. ;)

Funny, I always thought facts are things and events that either happen right now or have happened (and in that case, can be proven to have happened), not things or events that might with a certain degree of probability happen in the future. Where I come from, that's called speculation (or...

Just a silly question, but why not? If the game enables me to crit with a fireball, and nothing keeping me from doing enough damage to outright kill half the characters on the playing field with two lucky rolls, why shouldn't I be able to kill one character on the playing field with one lucky...

Yep. And if you look at the standard deviation of exactly one die roll, it's 0. Which proves exactly what in the question if one die roll vs. a few die rolls between death is more arbitrary?

So because you get to make a few more dice rolls before you get critted, that is less arbitrary? Save-or-Die is simply taking the risky nature of D&D, represented by the survival of a character hanging on a die roll, to the edge, while stuff like Death Ward takes it to the other extreme of 100%...

But you know, the fun part about those myths is that hero always survives because he first researches the weakness of the monster, and then uses that against it. Like Perseus getting himself a mirror shield to turn the gaze of Medusa against herself. Or Hercules knowing that he had to cauterize...

No joke, I was part of a game (in my army times) where one of our fighters had been given a sword that could resurrect a person. The scene went something like this... PC1: Help me, I'm running out of Hit Points! PC2: *decapitate* PC3 (me): What the hell did you do that for??? PC1: Now I can...

He-Man and Skeletor were on Krynn? Who knew? :uhoh: Man, I'm underwhelmed by what I've seen. And honestly, if something like Eragon can get a feature movie like it did, and can be hyped to be such a success, why can't they make something reasonably good from Dragonlance? The trailer starts...

An alternative that has been mentioned already would be a "Save or die slowly" (cue mad laughter here) effect, akin to the good old laser scene from Goldfinger. Basically, the effect starts taking your Con down round by round for a certain amount, either variable or fixed, and if nothing is done...

While I don't quite agree with you on which is easier, removal or addition, I actually agree with you on the advantage to handle one of the alternatives as an optional side-ruleset. Which would be easier in the end, having a sidebar that suggests changing a few spells to a death effect, or a...

Thanks for that summary of your opinion (and that of a few others). I'll refrain from summarizing mine (and that of a few others) because if I did, somebody would probably pipe up again about an endless back and forth of arguments. And we wouldn't want that after all. Can't have a bored...

That's probably because I've had 20 years of time and opportunity to form those opinions about magic and its users in the context of D&D. And since I'm quite okay with them, I'm not that easy to move away from them either as long as it's about D&D. :) As for anything else, I'm actually quite...

You might want to read one post up from what you quoted, find the post I responded to, and hopefully recognize what I was saying there in that post you quoted, and why I said it. Further, you might want to read the rest of my posts in this thread to find out that I'm not one of the folks who...

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Maybe I'm completely off the mark now, but I bet if they had been made and marketed as "The Making Of D&D 4E" instead, with promises to get a good look at the last 2 years of design processes, concept art that had been suggested and replaced, the thought processes of the designers, snippets from...

There's a wide spectrum between "hardcore simulation", where you make a character train for weeks and months, then have them roll a check to see if they succeed or fail in their training, and deduct a heap of GP from their bag of gold on top of it, and something approaching a videogame, where...