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Why can I only move 30 feet in 60 seconds.

What constitutes a "proper edition"?

Here's how skill challenges should work: 1. DM decides consequences for failure. DM also marks down the results of mitigated failure. (Example: You will die of thirst in the desert. One success: You arrive fainting in town with 1 HP. Two successes: You are weak and have only half your full...

D&D has always done magic differently than martial. No reason to change what works.

There's really no "mental gymnastics." There are people explaining why they don't like 4e's presentation, and you are telling them they are wrong because of their subjective preferences. It's like me saying I don't like eggs because they taste bad, and you saying, "Ugh, you're really reaching...

It's the difference between a wireframe and a model.

Because people expect magic to be different.

The "they're all the same because they use the same power structure" argument is a knee-jerk justification to a knee-jerk reaction. It's true, in a way, but not in the way they intend. It's like the "4e is WoW" canard: there is truth to it, but nerds generally have a difficult time...

Update: Halfling warpriest is a go. Stats aren't what they could be--DM used a standard array or something instead of point buy--but I've got a 16 Wis / Con, and I can hit fairly often. First of all, Blessing of Battle is amazing. DR 3/-- (or resistance 3 or whatever) is really useful...

I don't get it, either. These people are mostly college students, so they're allegedly our best and brightest. You should have seen the group I played Pathfinder with. The DM and I had to walk everyone through leveling up with every little bit, from saving throws to attack bonus to skill...

I would have do Sly Flourish in one of two ways. First of all, though, I would automatically let characters with substitute Dexterity for Strength when using light blades. Then I would: (a) Let the rogue add his Charisma modifier to all his attacks. (Or half his Charisma modifier, if that...

I think you overestimate the intelligence of most gamers. Most gamers are, by and large, of average intelligence. And, given the people I've gamed with, I'd say that there are a fair number who are below average intelligence and/or simply don't "get" rules easily. (You'd be surprised at how...

I should clarify: it's not that at-will powers are junk (which I wrote in haste); it's that at-will powers that replace your basic attacks are junk. In my experience, players want to say "I attack." They don't want to look through a list of special attacks they can do. They just want to attack...

I ditched that last junk game I was in and played with a new group. Currently, I am playing a halfling warpriest, who is working out much better than I anticipated. The rest of the party is a human gloom pact hexblade, an elf druid (yawn), an elf rogue, and a dragonborn warlord. Two leaders...

Probably not. Ten is the maximum number of monsters I'd want to run at once.

Right. Ten rats is fine. Almost twice that is not.

I would never include 18 rats in a single encounter. There's something much more satisfying about killing a rat than plinking away at a mass of hit points that represents a rat swarm.

5e, please fix this. In my very first 3e campaign--my very first time playing D&D!--our entire party was almost TPKed by a swarm of locusts. Then in my very second 4e game, we fought a swarm of spiders. We didn't die, but it was really annoying nonetheless. It's also unsatisfying to do damage to...

The only non-combat D&D character that exists is the apostle of peace, and that class exists purely to troll other players.

Haste is not a utilty spell.