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I bet it works like Saga Edition Star Wars -- there are still quite a few opportunity attacks, but the list of actions that provoke is small. In Star Wars, the list is: moving out of a threatened area, making an unarmed attack without the Martial Arts I feat, aiming, loading a weapon, picking up...

OK. Lets say you have five stormtroopers, each of which are CL 1. There are two methods for calculating group CL. First, add up the total CL of the group (in this case, 1 X 5), and divide by 3. In this case, that results in a CL of 1 (5/3, rounding down). The second method is to add two to...

What? Everyone has access to thief skills? Who's going to play a "rogue" (?) now? Whoa! The monk is awesome! Oh, man, I'm going to play a human fighter so I can get Whirlwind Attack at 4th level! Awesome!

Fighter and barbarian have been pretty popular in my experience. Two levels of fighter for the bonus feats, and a level of barbarian for rage and the movement boost.

I don't mind Feywild, Shadowfell, or Eladrin. Dragonborn, on the other hand, rubs me the wrong way. I think that I would have used lizardfolk, and altered their flavor text to indicate that many of the lizardfolk believed that they were descended from dragons, and they often worship Bahamut. It...

My understanding was that anti-D&D sentiment is mainly derived from the presence of magic rather than the presence of demons and devils and what-have-you. Dark Dungeons, the notorious anti-D&D tract by Jack Chick, focused on the presence of magic in the game, for example, with the DM offering to...

I find that clerics are more fun the more you have of them -- in a party of clerics, no one spends actions healing others, and you can focus on the more ass-kicking aspects of clericdom.

Leadership.

I like D&D, Saga Edition, and Book of Nine Swords, so it stands to reason I will like 4e. I like the idea of every class having a mix of per day, per encounter, and at will abilities. It sounds like it keeps in resource management and attrition without over-encouraging a short adventuring day.

I don't really think D&D needs the frost giant in as a separate monster. It seems like you could have one monster called a "hill giant", and then a note in the description telling you about fire and frost giants, which use hill giant statistics but have the fire and cold subtypes, respectively.

I kind of suspect that they're changing save-or-die effects to only work on bloodied targets, which seems fine to me. For me, at least, the problem with save-or-die was the first round kill, and unless you dramatically outmatch the enemy, you're not going to get them to half hit points in the...

I actually think DM controlled characters suffer save-or-die effects more often than PCs. Most encounters the PCs face will not have a save-or-die effect, as most monsters in the MM don't have a save-or-die effect to use. A normal adventuring party, on the other hand, will have a wizard and a...

So they're charging people for stealth corrections? Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.

My reading is that the character died, and you allowed him to live on with a major injury due to a house rule that allows you to cheat death once, is that right? I think Constitution drain would be the best option. Perhaps 1d4 points or something similar.

No. Save-or-die has so many game play problems that I'm quite happy to see it go. The diminished value of tactics and player skill in an environment with somewhat common save-or-die effects is enough reason to wish it gone. Now they just need to weaken critical hits.

Player's Handbook II -- there's just a lot of good crunch in this book. Expanded Psionics Handbook -- perhaps the first decent psionics system in D&D. Book of Nine Swords -- makes fighter-types competitive with wizard-types for the first time in 3.x, both in terms of utility and having...

The relationship between trandos and wookiees doesn't change with the rules; its pretty firmly established in the EU.

I would make it require either Dexterity 13 or 15 to fit with other d20 system feats (virtually all feats require an odd ability score rather than an even one). Other than that, it looks fine. I introduced a similar feat in my own d20 modern game.

I'd say that you could, but I could certainly see the merit of an argument that a completely non-organic fossil isn't the "bones [...] of [a] dead creature".

If you can't use lay on hands with the Cleave attack, you can't use it with Cleave, as the extra attack must be made with the same weapon as the attack that dropped the opponent.