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Everyone's playing pretend-wizard and pretend-cleric and pretend-fighter and pretend-rogue. This is not news. Not for a house wall. For a thicker wall, I suppose so. But there are no such people. There are no level 10 characters that don't have access to voluminous magical abilities. Some people...

Things that I am surprised to learn: The guy running Craster's place is the same guy who plays the British leader on "Turn". I watched the pilot for Turn and this episode of GoT within 12 hours of each other and I had no idea. The guy who's taken up with Jon Snow is apparently the same guy who...

It's not mentioned in the class description. How closely to most people read the magic chapter? I see players who don't know details from that text all the time. It's definitely one of the most frequently used references during play. The fact that I was aware of this option before this...

Probably the same way you'd think a wizard would. Scroll of Passwall. In practice, I think a rogue is probably almost as likely to have one of those as a wizard, and UMD checks don't fail often at this point. Then again, if we're talking a combat rogue with solid damage, how long will it take...

billd91 I don't really agree with that, and here's why. The way d20 math is, you don't have penalties. In a different system, a wizard would start out with a fort save of -2 (or some penalty), and perhaps even get worse over time. To me, the more you establish yourself in a niche with a weak...

To me, there's two meaningful tests. One, can you do it right now, which most characters probably fail (and a rogue might well be able to succeed through magic items). Two, can you do it given an indefinite amount of time (which anyone can). The in-between scenario (where you have a few minutes...

This episode may have been the strongest they pushed the idea of couples of wildly different age. Of course, it's a part of history (and still a part of life for some), but the whole Littlefinger/Sansa dynamic and the Margaery/Tommen introduction both took a new turn towards the creepy.

Well, to an extent that's where the whole Christmas tree thing comes in. High level characters in the existing game will realize that a cloak of resistance is the most cost-effective item out there (while no comparable DC-boosting items exist). So the actual dynamic is not that the weak...

True, but at the moment, a 20th level character's worst possible base save is only 6 worse than his best, which is not enough to cause that phenomenon. Bring it any closer and they wouldn't be much different (let alone would there be room for a distinct middle ground). In practice, the...

One one hand I can see the impetus to do this, but on the other, we need more granularity in this arena; "good" and "bad" is not enough. I don't get the feat chain hate. What's the issue people have with them? This is an important one; another thing that Trailblazer did but PF didn't. For one...

A rogue who really wants to get through a wall won't have much trouble with time, if we're allowing time. That aside, it is always mind-boggling to me that people talk about characters being powerful and then discuss it in terms of them being gimped. If I had a wizard player who wanted to craft...

4e's critics aren't a "problem" per se, but that aside, I don't buy this line of thought at all. Regardless of the licensing issues, the mission statement and many of the pieces of the game itself were simply never going to be accepted. The licensing did not create the divide. Maybe at first...

One benefit of increasing MAD (@payn) for the wizard would be avoiding that dynamic. For example, what I do is have one ability score stand for stamina (spells/day) and another for DCs. It's unlikely that you can max them both and other ability scores haven't changed in importance; thus the...

That's a big one to me. There's no good reason to have the spellcasters base their entire repertoire on one ability score. Splitting that up in some way would definitely be wise.

Yes, if there's one thing that makes wizards powerful, it's wizards that walk around with unmemorized spells. Not like you'll ever need that spell slot in a hurry!

True as that may be, without the OGL and its subsequent abandonment, there probably wouldn't be a 4e as we know it, because there would have been no need to so strongly differentiate it from the existing game. When we think 4e now, we think of powers and roles and standard modifiers and such...

You're right. To me, scattering them and reducing their magnitude is the thing to do after you've ensured that they are not assumed or necessary. If, instead of needing a +2 enhancement bonus on his sword just to be useful, a 10th level fighter has a choice between +2 attack or +3 damage or...

To me, that's where a lot of balance comes from. Opportunity cost. There's no way to boost everything, so you have to choose. As it is, characters expect an ability item in every ability score they use, and the best AC, saves, and (if applicable) weapon that money can buy. It's very...

I think the basic math ought to be changed so that you don't have to buy your AC and saves, but this approach seems more like a patch to me, one with some odd implications. For one thing, by giving these out as bonuses within the existing structure, it essentially means that existing magic...

What would the gaming landscape look like without it? Would D&D have experienced a 2000's renaissance? Would we here all be playing the game? Would ENW exist? I'm going to go out on a limb and say no.