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Even if hit points partially represent things like energy and pain threshold, it still seems reasonable that a glancing blow with a greataxe would be take more out of you then one with a dagger. From a game mechanics perspective, different damage ranges allow for another tool in balancing...

Depends how many d8s you actually have, we usually have more d20s then anything else. But your dice box quantitites may vary. But for me even if it's the same number of rolls it's much easier to say....ok 6 hits at 5 damage each that's 30.....then to say ok that's 1+2, 5+2, 4+2....ok that's...

Actually that would only be true in 2 cases.... 1) The dagger and the axe had the same enhancement bonus 2) Hrothgar has an equal strength and dex (daggers use dex to hit) If Hrothgar were known for his great speed and agility and had an epic dagger of equal reknown to dragon-hewer then I...

I plan to mostly use minions to represent monsters that the party is just more powerful then as a whole. So I may not use kobold minions and regular kobolds together at first level, because I just like the idea that all kobolds are a threat at that level. But if the party is 6th level fighting...

I remember back in the days of early living greyhawk they had a vote for the best player at the table at the end of the session. I can't remember what the official criteria for "best" was, but roleplaying was usually a major part of it. Eventually people realized it tended to be a reward for...

Well I'm not entirely sure about that.....we haven't seen all that many monsters who become notably more powerful when they are bloodied. It seems more common for them to unleash some one shot ability on you. Some monsters even become weaker when you bloody them like the angels, and characters...

So if I understand right a monster can be reasonably "promoted" to a minion when it's no longer threatening to the party, but the DM still wants to use it. For example when the 3rd level party wanders into the hobgoblin forest, all the hobgoblins are lvl 3 hobgoblin soldiers, archers...

There's also a huge difference between a lawful good character who believes in erradicating evil and chaos where it may lie and a lawful good character who believes all life is sacred and even heals the enemy when the opportunity arrives. Similarly there is a huge difference between somebody...

Well this is D&D and not the psychology of learning, but most animals will quickly learn to associate pain with other stimuli if the two are paired together. Or in other words even a dire bear would likely learn his lesson after a few tries. Certainly reasonable to have him try more then once...

I had that happen with a textbook order that a made a mistake on and then the site wouldn't let me cancel it. If you can find away to avoid delivery they will eventually take it back and refund you the money. But that's easy for me because I live in an apartment where they have no access to my...

Doesn't even need to be intrigue based, you could even do that when the goals are reasonably cooperative. I was thinking of doing something like that myself, maybe even adding new ones as the game went on. I'd probably end up giving everyone the xp for a completed personal quest though...

Ah my bad, that may have been part of the confusion there. BXCMI D&D doesn't quite roll off the tongue though. But I guess you can replace all references to OD&D I made to BXCMI D&D.

Actually I did look it up which should have been obvious from the fact that I commented on exactly what it was and when it was written. That was how I knew it was obscure, at least by my definition. And a book that compiles the rules of OD&D definitely has everything to do with OD&D. The fact...

I guess everyone has their own defintion of obscure. Certainly I had never heard of it, and I started playing with the red boxed set. I might argue that any OD&D supplement produced after AD&D had already taken over the market is by it's nature somewhat obscure. As for the D&D thing, the...

Well I'm fairly sure the point of a roleplaying game is not to pass judgement on the method acting skills of your friends.

Hmmm......well I could point at that rule comes from an obscure book that is part of the D&D ruleset (as opposed to AD&D) and that the rule you quote is I believe more of a campaign advice tip as opposed to an official rule in a core rulebook. Ultimately though I don't disagree with your...

Interesting to note that very few of the examples they give have anything to do with roleplaying but more with playing your character effectively. Kind of underscores the point of the article........why should we give xp for acting skill but not other things like rules knowledge.

The article perfectly mirrored my own experience both in home games and living games. I've never felt comfortable saying "bad roleplayer no XP for you" to my friends. And it was rare to find a living campaign adventure that didn't get max xp awards unless the DM had an axe to grind. I have no...

You could do for something else WoTC related too........I can't remember if it was for magic or 3.x though. But I do remember people saying that if you called 4 times about a tricky rules question you would get 4 different answers.

Well maybe at low level it was possible (but very unlikely)not to die from a CDG in 3e. But unless you can make a DC 60 fort save, your unlikely to survive any past then. Granted that's probably realistic if your trying to finish off a human, though perhaps less so for a 60 foot dragon. 4e non...