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Do you have a problem with the fact that we openly state it, or that it's true? If the former, that seems strange. If the latter, I'd guess you're not much of a fan of any heroic-scale RPG. All of them have this aspect, even if they don't come right out and say it. The D&D game has had it since...

The OP is mistaken in the definition of healing surge, whether and why such a statistic needs to be in a stat block, and what the fact that healing surges aren't in NPC stat blocks means. It's a shame any conclusion was based on these mistaken assumptions. A healing surge isn't the ability to...

Yes.

Fair enough. Your statement shores up my point, since seeing a cockroach on your food is enough to make a solid evaluation of the food situation. But that's only as long as one actually sees a cockroach and not what one imagines to be a cockroach for whatever reason, such as seeing something...

I've said it before, and on these boards, but it merits repeating. Taking a staunch position on anything that's not completely open to evaluation seems irrational to me. Few people have a clear picture of 4e, and a lot of talk, "hater" or "fanatic," is speculation—and a lot of that baseless...

This, along with others who pointed out that this is a story issue more than a mechanical one. You can wear a cloak and an amulet, you just can't get the same benefit from both. One of them is likely to be a "fluff description" over what really amounts to a wondrous item, and the other is going...

We haven't moved toward this; we moved in. Put simply: Gnome as monster? Check. Gnome as PC race? Check. [/end addressing your quote and moving on to a general comment] I've use the abilities of one monster in the MM to change the way another works. I've also just said, "This elf here in the...

Monsters go down in 1 or 2 hits hit a lot in my game. And not just minions, which always go down in 1 hit. In my game just last night, I was using a normal "monster" version of an elf archer as a guide for the PCs. He worked fine with the party, even when he bore the brunt of some attacks. He...

Also, warlocks have other implement possibilities. They aren't limited to wands. Did somebody say scepter . . . ?

Welcome to FR . . . also.

Yay! Someone found the Easter egg. (I decided to have fun with a misspelling.) Yes, it was the wallabies. Sorry. [/self-indulgence] Okay . . . I see some interesting stuff here. It's true that 3e assumed a fighter in great armor. It's true that the system didn't really come right out and tell...

Lupins in issue 325 of Dragon, which you can get as a PDF or printed from Paizo. http://paizo.com/dragon/products/downloads/v5748btpy7ye9&source=search :D

QFT. Should have done that earlier. My apologies. Yep. Something like that, although let's not go crazy with 1/1 BAB. ;) Interestingly, 2/3 comes close—but fails to solve the defenses problem. It’d probably just be easier to fiddle with monster/NPC stats with PC attack/defense shortfalls in...

It's important, I think, to say that I respect Lizard's play style. If you're having fun playing D&D, you're accomplishing the game's main goal, all rules aside. I also respect the no-frills kick-in-the-door play style. As James Wyatt's Random Late-Night Dungeon(tm) at GenCon '06 proved, it can...

Highly dependant on interpretation, and the reasonableness of that interpretation, probably hence JohnSnow's point. Three item categories are “primary,” and the article makes that clear. Only very loose interpretation, the sort that ignores what the article says, can place secondary slot items...

Hi Ari—somehow I missed meeting you while you were here at the office. I'm sorry about that. [/off topic] I like this show. I like Summer Glau as a protector cyborg. The cast is interesting, and the acting is pretty good. I’m glad to see Thomas Dekker (John Connor, also from the first season...

Ding! Score one for us! Poor Rob Heinsoo . . . that ranger never had a chance. I can't wait to see how the strangler works in my game. We don't have strict guidelines. But it is relevant to point out that the reports and blogs are, in and of themselves, supposed to be entertaining. And brief.

Hey, we only use combos if we can make nonhyphenates out of 'em. As in "superfly!" "Wickedawesome!" "Beesknees!" And "Todamax!" :D

Maybe a bad name, but a power along those lines might actually be cool. "So, you're on fire, see, and you're forced to dance (or just run around) rather than put it out . . . " Now, if Yammer in Terror were Terrifying Yammering . . . er, nope . . . still not working.

I don't think that most of those bemoaning a lack of simulation could agree that what you say here is their definition of simulation. I'd have to question if that's what the OP meant by simulation, admitting that I don’t know. By your definition, which is a fine one, D&D has always been...