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Most of the in-game divination spells should get the axe, or, at the least, they should be heavily nerfed.

I think one of the flaws of 4e's design is that it made it very difficult to homebrew. If you wanted to create a custom class, you had to write out 30 levels of powers and a handful of paragon paths. With the trend of 5e towards a simplified design (and more unified mechanics), I think...

Monsters chase after them and/or have healing kits/clerics on their side. What orc tribe would be complete without a shaman?

I am exceedingly pleased with my set. Also bought some of my gamer friends casino dice as a wedding present, and I love those even more. (They're gorgeous, the edges are sharp, and the corners are pointed enough to cause discomfort with careless handling.) I am now a full dice snob and will...

I have a hard time believing that a minotaur is only one size category larger than a gnome.

Ed Greenwood is awful, just awful. When not writing his self-insert Mary Sue Elminster, he's crafting a story about his perverse sexual fantasies. Usually he butchers his prose in the process. R.A. Salvatore is not what I would describe as "great," but he manages to string a plot along.

What are you thinking? I'm assuming we'll see some kind of multi-targeting (spend an expertise die and you can apply your attack roll to a second creature), but what else does the fighter need?

Giving people a set of choices is in a way limiting their choices because they'll tend to default to those choices. If you offer someone Coke or Pepsi, chances are that he's not going to ask for lemonade. Likewise, the stunting system is still largely DM fiat. In the encounters game, I...

You raise an interesting issue. I think, perhaps, that there should be "basic" monsters that are very quick and easy to use and there should be "setpiece" monsters that are more complicated. An orc vs. an orc chieftain, perhaps. Whereas the orc might might have only standard melee/ranged...

I'll talk to the DM about it, then. The attack damage isn't really formatted properly, I think...for some reason, Cleave does more damage than my normal melee attack, so I'm pretty sure that whoever did the sheet did it wrong. There's also another player who is playing a knight, and he seemed...

And you're using up resources to do so. The "effect" is not at all the same because the cleric is out of spells until he rests again. This is wrong. Any flat bonus damage + a decent crit modifier can drop a PC for a good while. (And, armor of fortification aside, if you get crazy with it, it...

FYI, I'll be playing again this Friday, so I'll keep people updated on this thread. Wait, since when do I get my Con bonus to damage? Also, my character has 12 Con even though he's a dwarf, and I'm pretty sure that the numbers on the sheet are wrong, now that I look at it. (20 Strength but 12...

Something else while I'm thinking of it: it's not wrong to have powers that do the same thing. While unique mechanics are desireable, I don't really see what is wrong with giving the bard, ardent, and cleric the same healing power. Isn't the ability to spend a healing surge with a bonus good...

Let's cool the Internet slapfight, please.

Another thing I noticed in 4e that 5e needs to avoid: healing doesn't matter. Dropping to negatives in 4e isn't scary, especially not when the healer is nearby and he can set you up with a healing surge as a minor action and get you in the game. Generally, when a PC drops, I like it to be a...

The anti-CS sentiment feels very "fighters can't have nice things." As far as I'm concerned, CS strikes a nice balance between "simple fighter" and "complex fighter"--it's easy enough to pick up, the options aren't difficult to understand, and the dice pool makes it easy to track. I like it so...

You find that "disempowering"? It's really not that different from rolling your attack roll and finding out how well you hit with the damage roll. If you roll a 16+, you just hit well enough you could knock your enemy over.

Yes, my main issue was that an aura that targeted everything around me would have worked much more effectively. As it was, I had to wait until the second round to try anything remotely effective, and even then, I could only make one AOO against one critter. Lame.

A DM in the area is running D&D Encounters, and I figured, hey, what the hell, might as well give 4e a shot. I've been griping about it for years, so I suppose it couldn't hurt to see the system in play. I met up with a large group (7-8 players), we picked through a bunch of pregen characters...

Call me cynical, but 3e/4e was the time when the fanbase was at its nadir. With 3e and character customization came the ridiculous character optimization threads, in which the fun of playing D&D became the fun of "winning" D&D. If your druid wasn't eating the fighter and rogue for breakfast...