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I'm not sure I understand your response. I'm really asking two questions, 1) what goes on in your campaign? Do characters, such as Fighters, Rangers, Paladins, Wizards, know they are level X? 2) Provided you played 1e, was it your interpretation that the named levels were in-character...

I'm not sure I understand... So differences in spell power are not metagame? I think we're already clear on that point. :) NPC's "in the know" can tell the difference. But you never have them talk about it in exact terms? But you still tell the player OOC exactly what those levels are...

In the "real" world, many organizations use or employ "levels." Amateur tennis players are ranked by a system such as 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5, etc. Karate dojo's in America typically give out ranks based on belt color, White, Green, Yellow, and we all know of Black belts don't we? Those level are not...

As Jimlock and Deset Gled suggest, and I agree with, magic healing removes scars. It's "magic" remember? But the question is why does the DMG talk about these things in the way it does? What does this say about how the authors envisioned the game? Recently, as I got back in to D&D, it has...

A friend and I are co-DMing a Faerun 3.5 campaign. Immersion is a big thing for him. We had a situation where we had to go buy some 1st level scrolls and naturally wanted ones cast by the highest caster we could find. The DM decides that people don't know what levels are and gave us the blank...

As you point out, the system is no longer supported by WotC and most if not all of the books are out of print. Which means WotC isn't going to litigate over someone downloading a bunch of PDFs. At this point, it's unlikely WotC would make a dime off of someone buying the books, unless you...

I believe every official 3.5 book is available for free on the Internet. One site in particular had every book except that evil counterpart to the Exalted Deeds. Mod Note: EN World does not advocate or support piracy. Our site and hobby ultimately depends on good people getting paid for...

Veg, great job in arguing the point based on the logic in the FAQ. I don't know if you agree with this or not, but based on your argument, you can take 20 to escape because you get the opposed roll is fixed and you get to try as many times as you want (Maybe you said this and I just missed it...

Look around? That's essentially arguing a point based on anecdotal evidence. You brought up Michael Jordon. Guess what? MJ wanted to be a baseball player. He didn't start playing basketball until highschool. After MJ retired from basketball, he went to the minor leagues and tried to resurect his...

That seems true on the surface, but it's pretty tough to find facts to back this up. Mozart was gifted at birth, genetically. You can argue that it was luck that he ended up in a musical family, but it may have been the presence of music while he was in the womb that allowed him to develop his...

Yes, D&D tries to straddle the fence with reality in some areas and not in others, but as a player and DM, you just have to accept that. Gary Gygax would probably tell you the beauty of D&D is that if any particular rule's lack of realism makes the game less enjoyable for you...change it. But...

How will you know when something is balanced? Are you just looking for qualitative arguemnts suchs as: "Well, I think blah blah blah is overpowered or not a problem." Or a you looking for something empiracally derived? What about the players? Will they feel the game is "balanced" when you...

I'm not sure what point of yours I've proven. My post is an agreement with Bob's observation about forum behavior, except that it is true on many forums, not just here. The majority (like 95%) of people who post, basically suck at logic. The repeatedly and frequently make non-sequitor...

Ya think?

Gosh, sounds like something a DM would do if they were totally setting you up. I'm not saying he/she is, but you know the adage that if it sounds too good to be true...

What are we balancing? The Coup de Grace is obviously the game designers creating a game mechanic whereby you can kill someone who is "helpless" in one round without people have to hack at a creature like a butcher. Clearly they did not intend for this to be a mechanic whereby anyone could go...

Well, perhaps the game designers were thinking of someone on their knees who has just surrendered. The captives are neither paralyzed, held, bound, sleeping, or unconsious, but their captors could come up behind and slit their throats. Essentially anyone who simply does not resist for whatever...

I think this is a lot of it...but I also think it's quite a bit more complex/nuanced. First, Monte Cook has an article where he talks about what their intent in 3e was with regards to spell casters. Monte identifies the problem was that mages did very little early on and then became really...

When my group started our 3.5 campaign, someone suggested we look at PF. The motivation rested in how Paizo was advertising PF. It talked about changes made based on 100 of hours of playtesting. One is led to believe PF "fixes" all the things that were oversights in 3.5 and that WotC never got...

Did someone mention the Judian People's Front?!?? SPLITTERS!!!!!