Search results

[tongue-in-cheek] Are you sure about this? To me, it looks like they already started with exactly that. Arcane defenders will be able to "tunnel" around the grid to affect enemies, and heroes warp space depending on their base movement rate. Looks like some kind of quantum field rules are going...

YES! Please, let me cling to it! Honestly, I never was any good in mentally walking through n-dimensional spaces, or working with realistic examples that only served as an abstraction (just recently drove a friend of mine nuts trying to make me understand Xeno's Paradox for what it is :lol: )...

You know...if I see ANYbody complaining about WotC "dumbing down" D&D with 4E again, I'll point them to your post here. :lol: THIS is certainly not dumbing down D&D, not by a long shot. On the other hand, it'll make planehopping to the Far Realm no big deal anymore. On a tangent, can anybody...

Hmmm, and this is what I meant when I wondered if combat will simply boot the whole game world into a different physical reality, where a perfect square is made up of two triangles with three equal sides. Or will the whole setting feature that kind of geometry? Will certainly make for a...

I don't know, unless all distances are suddenly measured in squares instead of feet, we're talking a character being able to move, at the same speed and velocity, move 30 feet in 5 seconds in one direction, and 40 feet in 6 seconds in a direction at a 45° angle to the first. Maybe people would...

Feats are not meant to easily reproduce spell-like or supernatural abilities. But by the time the characters meet creatures with those abilities, they will be high enough level to either have access to a magical item that confers the same ability, or a spell that does the same. Try to find a...

Since a 5' step as a basic movement unit is the only thing you can still do as a free action while continuing a full-round action, it should work in a grapple as well, and since you are not moving away from the grapple, but only moving around with a pinned opponent, I don't think it's too far...

I don't know, I think everything is in place, at least in the 3.0 PHB. Being behind a same-size creature confers a +4 AC bonus as per page 133 Table 8-9 Cover (one-half), the rules for striking the cover instead of the target are on the same page directly below the table, and the grappling rules...

Nah, not forget...it's just the Midas mindset all over again. Turning everything you touch into gold is better than being able to eat. ;)

Wow...a compilation of Monte's latest house rules for 3.X for 6€ sounds like a steal. Definitely going to check this out. :D

Nope. Why, should it?

I can only advice to be up front with your players about where the campaign takes place, and what kind of flavour you're intending to give it, and which elements of the new edition you don't think fit in. Then go from there. On the other hand, if there is one thing every roleplayer should be...

Hey, look at it from this point of view: if it's true that criticism from the playtesters can still influence design, and can result in changes made to the system, then so can criticism from fans of the game as a whole. Which is something a lot of people posting here still kinda hope for. Cloud...

Yeah, I recall seeing it in a british pocket book edition...back then I simply assumed it was the same as my german Mentzer edition, only smaller and in one book. Shows what I knew of the game back then. :lol: Thing is, there's plenty of games out there that come in a "single book" edition...

Well, I'm not sure how helpful this is, but I've come upon a similar thought recently when starting my Lone Wolf D20 game. There is way less in magical items compared to standard D&D, and by far not as much stuff that compares to the "Big Six" you mention. Also, I'm usually a bit on the quirky...

Welcome to ENWorld...and congrats on a pretty good post for your #1. :D

It isn't. Not the board as a whole, and especially not the mods or admins. There's small groups on both ends of the spectrum that can get very nasty (or annoying), and the rest is somewhere inbetween. It's sad that you got that impression from ENWorld 4E Forum, but I dare say you're in the...

Uhm, not saying you're wrong on all accounts here, just wondering what Basic D&D you started with. Mine was the Mentzer version, and if you read the Preface in the Dungeon Master's Rulebook, you can read Mentzer telling you: "You must know how to be a player before learning how to be a Dungeon...

Well, there are two points about your argument regarding 3.X handling this "separation". First, if that information is important to the players, it's the DM's job to relay it to them. How he does it is his problem. Whether he reads them the information and asks them to write it down, or simply...

Yep...and I have the sneaking suspicion the "not so nice" Plane Sailing might pop up here at some point. :\