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How is this different from killing a 3.5 Ogre Mage and not being able to loot its Cone of Cold ability? The game has never pretended that you have to give a piece of treasure for every special ability and stat the enemy has.

WRONG! Because if said drow's AC was actually super high (say, the solo at the end of a dungeon crawl) then a treasure parcel is near at hand. He may actually be wearing magic armor (which the PCs could then take) or there might be a magical sword being held by the drow, or there might be a...

Man, you could get a lot of millage out of something like this.

Alignment now lies completely outside of game mechanics. No class does (or ever will) require you to be a certain alignment, and nobody will ever again have "smite evil" (i.e. "smite who my DM wants me to smite"). We won't have the weirdness of lawful (and only lawful) monks, nonlawful...

Dragonborn get +CON to their healing surge value, which can be a lot if you use a lot of surges in one day. Dwarves can Second Wind as a minor, rather than standard, action. Is an extra standard action in combat worth +1 Surge +1 HP? I'd say yes. The CON bonus is good, but considering a 20 CON...

D&D is a game in which Cure spells heal wounds, and Heal spells cure poison. Don't think about this too hard.

Encounter powers that create lasting effects last 5 minutes or less the short rest lasts 5 minutes, to ensure that all effects from previous powers expire. It would be nice if the DMG had something about "you can allow characters to apply the effect of a short rest in any time as long as you...

Actually you're the one who doesn't get it. I agree with you: a guy carrying around two big swords and trying to fight with them will quickly become fatigued. I can manage to suspend my disbelief to let this happen in the game, but you obviously can't, that's okay. I disagree that the way to...

Wait ... so it "makes sense" to the OP that a guy with 18 STR boosts that str up to 26 and goes from +4 to lift the portcullis to +23 in 30 levels But a guy going from 8 str to 10 str going from a -1 to a +15 in the same time is just bollocks? It's not even an assumption, it's a fact that the...

For skills, you get 1/2 level to Skills, and the DC for a level-appropriate "easy" challenge assumes 50% success rate. Meaning that as you level, if you put no effort into raising a skill, you'll constantly have a 50% chance of failing "easy" challenges. The thing that will change, as you...

He means that his point is so obvious that even really stupid people agree with it. Yet here I am with a 180 IQ fairly vehemently disagreeing with him. So I'm not sure what IQ actually has to do with anything ...

You can't get a +6 bonus until level 25, at which point any level 25 character can automatically pass a DC 12 skill check. At 25th level an "easy" challenge is DC 24, a character will have a modifier of: 12+2 (untrained) = 12 (45% success) 12+5+2 (trained) = 19 (80% chance) 12+5+3+6(trained...

And thus be exactly balanced with the other PC's, who can also wear found armor. You don't have to have a bunch of feats that give them armor plus some special bonus because they were required to use a feat to get armor and start riding the balance train. (Alternately, you could give all PC's...

Balanced with the rules system? Easy to adjudicate? Are you going to let Warforged use a feat to get Godplate at first level? What happens when a Warforged with the SkinPlate feat reaches 16th level? Does it transform into SkinWarplate? Can you retrain the feat? What happens then? Do warforged...

From the racial entry: Effect: You gain a number of temporary hit points equal to 3 + one-half your level. You may make an immediate saving throw against one effect that inflicts ongoing damage and can be ended with a save. In addition, if you are bloodied you regain hit points equal to 3 + one...

Take toughness at first level and then retrain it to Imp Init at 2nd level. What else were you going to use your 2nd level retrain for?

The MM has an entry for warforged as Monsters, the Appendix never claims that the entries are perfectly designed for players.

It makes exactly as much sense as a guy with 8 healing surges being able to get knocked to zero and recover to full in five minutes, twice a day. All this does is reduce the number of healing surges a party can use in one adventuring day before having to rest "Oops, I'm down to two surges, we...

~ edited ~ You're relatively new here, and that is great, but when you signed up you agreed to a bunch of things we collectively call "the rules", and amongst them was the basic concept of 'don't be rude to other people'. That includes not swearing and 'cleverly' getting round the profanity...

First of all, tone down your vehemence. "Everyone smart agrees with me" is a poor argument in the first place, and the majority of people aren't disagreeing with you that two bastard swords strains credulity. What I'm arguing is that banning a completely balanced effect because "It's stupid" is...