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Adding -born to something to denote that something is derived from that thing isn't artistically unique or inventive, though, it's just simple English. Not to suggest that that has any implications for trademarks, though.

Tieflings would be too predictable. I voted for an elven race.

The Speak With Dead ritual states, "You ask the corpse of an intelligent creature questions and receive answers." Is the corpse compelled to answer your questions directly to the best of its knowledge? I had been thinking not, until I reread the ritual text and saw that 1) it says nothing about...

I'll admit, I never thought I'd see "kenku" and "winning" used in the same sentence before. :p I'm delighted to see that they got some attention, though, because I've always wanted to play a kenku just for the absurdity of it.

Houserule: A PC can roll an insight check to determine whether an ally is dominated and can prevent movement/make OAs against it.

I completely agree. The very first D&D character I rolled was a warlord -- I cracked open a friend's PHB, and when I got to the warlord page, I was immediately struck. It was novel, but conservative at the same time, which pulled me in. Warlord healing as only THP confuses the meaning of THP, I...

Yes, they couldn't possibly screw it up this badly on purpose. I'll give it some time to see if they can fix it.

I learned about them from playing Neverwinter Nights 2 (in which I generally understood them) and playing a couple sessions of 4e and having someone briefly explain when they occur as those situations arose. Now I understand them completely.

What do you know, the same day I complain about not having a chance to put rituals to good use, I later use one twice to great effect in the same session. The ritual in question was Object Reading, and our party used it once on a nondescript amulet found on an ancient skeleton in a burial...

In our group, my PC (a psion) is the ritual user, but unfortunately I haven't had much call to use them yet. I've been trying to come up with creative uses for them, but sadly have not come up with much. Enchant Magic Item is a potentially useful ritual because, unlike Brew Potion, you can...

I never played older editions with morale checks, so how did they decrease the necessity of focus-fire tactics? Seems to me that you would still want to focus fire. In the Total War RTS series, one of the first tips the game always gives you is to concentrate fire on a single unit so that it...

Not sure if you intended it as such, but this is a valid issue. I also have a completely sincere question that came to me as I was reading the "whatever works for the situation" proposal. If you're using TotM for the battles that don't require much precision or thought and grids for more...

As someone in favor of being able to go from 1st level to max level in a 1-year long campaign, this is my biggest concern about being able to level up fast enough to make that possible. The solutions, I can figure, would be one of these two: 1) Fewer powers (or no powers, as will apparently be...

Maybe it's because of my inability to stick with one character in one campaign for a long time, or my rotten luck with D&D groups falling apart for one reason or another, but I picked 4-6 months.

"Information they need" = stuff they need to know to advance the plot rather than aimlessly wandering around because they missed a minor detail that is the clue they needed to figure out what they're supposed to be doing. For example, your party clears out all the rooms in a bandit camp and...

Agreed with the people who say to just make all of the feats not suck. For example, the original 4e weapon focus feats that gave you +1 attack vs. the more recent ones that give you +1 attack and some unique situational perk when using that weapon type. Although I wish they could also just...

My group meets every week for 3-4 hours. I would like to be able to make it from level 1 to the end of epic tier in a one-year campaign. I also don't want there to be too few levels such that there is little granularity with power increases. Working the math on this, let's assume the 2-hour a...

The bullet points from tonight: -Overall, everyone thought it worked well, even though everyone was very skeptical at first. -The remote player reported having trouble making out the minis and tiles. We had the webcam pinned up to a glass so that it was above the battlefield but very close to...

That sounds like a brilliant setup. When I have the money, I would love to get the proper equipment and set up something like that, since I think we'll be including this player remotely even after she returns. (And I may have to move elsewhere for employment [or lack thereof] reasons in the...

OP, I was just thinking last night about how I feel as though I have the same problem! In general, whenever someone orally gives me some complex instruction (e.g. directions), I have trouble concentrating on it, and what I tend to do now is just zone out and then ask them to write it down when...