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If you get stabbed 4" deep with a blade, it doesn't really matter if the blade is a dagger or a longsword.

I hope that 4e bucklers are real bucklers, not the stupid, unrealistic, strap-to-the-arm buckler of 3.0 and 3.5

The problem in 3.0 is that weapon proficiencies didn't mesh well with weapon size; by calling the differently-sized weapons by different names all sorts of weirdness could arise. My gnome druid could not use a scimitar and shield; she had to wield her scimitar in two hands. However, if you were...

A drow lich justiciar.

There must be some way to determine minion status other than "hit first, then find out." Perception. Sense motive. Some other skill. Because we all know that this will lead to "hide a super guy in a mess of minions, with no way of finding him." Which is fine for some special circumstances...

Is there a picture of the new pit fiend? I've always felt that having pit fiends and balors was redundant and just there for the sake of symmetry. They are basically the same thing.

Re. blackguard: The dictionaries I've checked list multiple pronunciations, including "blaggerd" and "black guard." "Blaggerd" does not sound right for an anti-paladin. It sounds like a common thug. "Justiciar" may be "correcter" but I think "justicar" has legs. "Justiciar" sounds more like...

That's covered by racial feats. Milkthief: You have +4 to thievery skill checks pertaining to dairy products. Bah. Everyone should know by now that Youtube = Rickroll.

At least with the removal of iterative attacks we won't have the abuse where the mounted warrior dashes across the board on the back of a dire giraffe then makes 3 attacks plus the giraffe's kick.

Can you imagine what the response would be if they announced that you have to wait until Paragon Tier to get a mount, and you have a limited choice based on your race? ;) Mounts as out-of-combat movement: Not a problem. Mounts a mobile combat platform: Not much of a problem. Mounts as combat...

Are you kidding? They are tiny! I held a ruler up to my screen and they're not even half an inch thick! ;)

I can't wait to fight one of these! "I charge at the phane to chop it in half with my vorpal scimitar, what? He zaps me with some strange time ray? ...*zap*... the important thing to know is I was wearing an onion in my belt, as was the custom of the time.... get off my lawn!"

Good point. Disembodied souls in various forms are vary common in D&D. Perhaps when Zaron the Wizard dies, his ghost just hangs around his body for a while since he knows his buddy Goodkind the Cleric can patch up his body enough to reinhabit it (i.e. cast raise dead). Conversely, most people...

Considering so many people in the real world seem to have used INT as their dump stat (present company excluded, of course!), I think we can call this "realism". ;)

Oh, there it is, in the polearm section: Pallette de Pong.

I like the adventure guidelines for the tiers. I hate having to save the world as a 5th level character. The way D&D currently is, it seems by the time you're 20th level you've saved the world from three doomsday cults, four evil mages, three resurrected evil forgotten deities from ages past...

I'd much rather have a speedbump than something that derails the game. (Edit: Wormwood beat me to it, but I want to keep my post here because I want to show off my use of the word "panoply") Thank the gods, though, that the "fate worse than death" will no longer be loss of equipment. 3e: "I'm...

Yes, but were these mighty heroes killed by bad luck with dice? No, they were killed by the story. There is a difference. If you remove raise dead then a string of unfortunate rolls could kill your character...then it's game over, make a new one. In which case you could to the Beerfest method...

So why not dodge arrows, as the original poster posits? Why not dodge everything?

Are you kidding? She's a nefarius evil mastermind. All of those murders were secretly orchestrated by her. How else would she "just happen" to be the area of a murder week after week.