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How have you folks gotten your players prepared for an upcoming campaign at a sort of "session 0" meeting? As a player, what have you found most helpful at these sorts of meetings? My gaming group just wrapped up a D&D campaign, and we're going to start playing this indie RPG with me as the GM...

My guess for the races is Dragonborn, Shardminds, and Wilden, and for classes Runepriest, Bladesinger, and Warlord. ;)

This is perhaps tangential to the thought experiment, which is focused on probability and mathematics, but I'd rather see this: Your character can either lose 10 maximum HP forever and save his father from a collapsing tower, or your character can do nothing and his father will die. Every time...

Pretty much this. For the most part, the death of a PC is a frustrating disappointment for the player and a frustrating stumbling block for the rest of the party. The player has to roll up a new character and doesn't get to engage in the dead character's story, and the party has to do something...

Because Fighters suck and must always be inferior in every respect to their genetically superior counterparts in other classes. Although, people always want Fighters to have something unique that other classes don't have, so I guess in this case, "Doesn't get an extra skill" is the Fighter's...

Scholar is a good one. It's one of those themes that makes you say, "Yes, now my character mechanically functions in the way that I roleplay him." The extra skill is handy, and learning all of the languages by level 10 is a real winner. The powers you get or that you have access to tend to be...

No, he said that the low cost of rituals was a problem, hence he hates "quadratic wizards" in all editions.

I think Charisma should just be a catch-all for "force of personality/confidence (which includes willpower) and personal magnetism" and "general physical attractiveness," and that Wisdom should have all of the intuitiveness and whatever. It would be a much more interesting system to have all of...

Reading the previous posts in this thread on the subject left it on my mind during my group's game tonight. We happened to be fighting creatures that only targeted Reflex (on attacks, OAs, and when exploding upon death). It DID strike me as odd that every time I killed a creature next to me, its...

It's not a bias, but it's a mistaken premise. If the game system says "This is not mind control" and "This HP recovery is not magical healing" and you say "But it is," then you're insisting on using one set of logic (that is valid for one system) to judge another set of logic (that is valid for...

I imagine it's hard to get people who aren't already your good friends to try an RPG they've never heard of. It's probably much easier to get a group that starts with D&D as an "RPG gateway drug" so you can potentially lead them to try more and more indie RPGs. :lol:

1) I already explained my reaction to the facing suggestion upthread. 2) If a group wants to play with full resources regained after each encounter without healing surges, that's fine, but I'm assuming that WotC put "rules for encounter-based resources" on their wishlist of modules to give...

I don't know either, but I think this may shed some light into why such a typo was in the book: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcSUWP0QNeYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcSUWP0QNeY

Two parts to this: 1) An attack represents represents an entire round's worth (in 4e, 6 seconds) of combat, during which both the attacker and defender are both attacking and parrying against one another. Given that, it makes sense for the PC to be able to "pull" his opponent by using the...

I see people say this a lot, and it always confuses me. So I'll just ask for your opinion: What do you think it was about 4e that made the stuff outside of combat less important/interesting than it was in earlier editions?

Ye gods! I'm dead, but still aware, cursed to roam the ENWorld boards forever. Does that make me a wraith? And, if it does, does that mean my touch drains levels? Actually, when I think about it some more, I have to admit that I think they're on the right track with martial maneuvers. A wider...

That's not my attitude at all. :) As I said later in my post, I want 5e to be able to handle multiple playstyles, so I don't think that facing should be excluded from an optional rules set just because I don't like it anymore than I think people should advocate for the exclusion of 4e powers...

IMHO: Really? They're still on with this whole "facing" thing? I don't know which member of the design team keeps bringing up facing at the meetings. As long as they still have healing surges (or hit dice, whatever) so that you don't literally get EVERY resource back after each encounter...

The first time I played KOTBL was with the first DDN playtest packet. The player playing the sun cleric ran into the middle of the Kobold living chamber and used Channel Radiance to bathe the entire room in damaging radiance, frying to death every adult and baby kobold. Of course, the fact that...

Actually, it is, just not by default. There's "Secret language," which can be "Thieves' Cant, Druidic, Drow Sign Language," or other such languages. All you need to learn it is either the Linguist feat or a background that lets you learn an additional language of your choice, and DM's...