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In a couple of recent threads we've been talking about running low gold campaigns. In 3e magic items made it difficult to run a campaign that didn't shower the player characters with riches as they rose in levels. 4e makes it much easier to pull the magic items and replace them with inherent...

This is the internet, insane nitpicking is par for the course. ;)

Doesn't the description say the disk floats 1 foot above the ground? I'd say that unless the water is less than 12" deep, you're going to get your feet wet.

You know, people have been complaining about how lawful evil and chaotic good have disappeared, but reading this it seems to me like LE and CG aren't gone. They just killed NG and NE and took their stuff. Good is all about freedom and kindness, and protecting the weak from those who would...

Debate it endlessly on the internet, of course!

Which is why we have Rule 0. Why does it matter if the DMs interpret the rules differently? Once the rulebook hits the table it's your game. What you seem to be asking for, a perfect, unambiguous set of rules that covers all circumstances, is quite literally impossible, even in pure...

To me common sense suggests the opposite. Down the road of self-awareness lies madness, and The Order of the Stick (the stuff of great comedy, to be sure, but a lousy roleplaying experience). The problem exists because some DMs are unwilling to rule out such a ludicrous tactic. The rules...

Which is why we have Rule 0. This is not a computer game. The RAW cannot possibly cover every circumstance, and even when they do cover a circumstance they cannot possibly be a perfect model of the gameworld that the players and DM are trying to represent. The purpose of the DM is not merely...

How easy it is to get rid of magic items (and even magic using classes) without totally wrecking the game.

Besides what Dausuul said, you would essentially be giving up the +3 sword of orc pwning forever. Essentially I'm thinking of either giving players one +X weapon per tier or giving them a +3 weapon to start and allowing them to unlock it's abilities at each tier (+1 at heroic, +2 at paragon, +3...

Not quite true. You can administer a healing potion. That will get them back into the fight.

A rat swarm and a giant rat are presented as a credible threats in KotS, not a normal-sized individual rat. I'm perfectly fine with the DM applying his common sense. I think that the problem here is that it seems self evident to Mourn (and dare I say, most of us) that the two are not...

Pretty much what I'm planning, though I'm thinking about splitting the bonus between inherent bonuses (at 5th, 15th, and 25th levels) and mundane item bonuses. However, only the equivalent of +1 items will be available for purchase. Higher level items have to be found or given to you. You...

It's not just the DM's aesthetics. The default D&D economy (players start out pretty well off and get rich, very rich, enormously rich, and obscenely rich as they level up) rules out certain kinds of stories. There's no way to do any sort of "hungry warrior" story like Seven Samurai or Samurai...

This.

Evidently I didn't write that clearly enough for you to see what I was agreeing with you. ;) I've edited it a bit to try to get my point across better. Which was exactly my point. D&D hands out gold like candy and has to raise the prices on everything to compensate.

For those complaining about how plate is underpriced, according to Wikipedia, "A typical suit of full plate harness cost around 1 pound sterling in 14th century England". At that time, one pound sterling was equivalent in value to three nobles, which are gold coins weighing about a third of an...

I think you might sell more, "Irontooth turned me into a bloody paste" t-shirts. :D

I think this depends not just on what sort of game you're playing and what your DM lets you do with knowledge. In the Ptolus campaign I'm in, almost every character has Knowledge (local). We get a lot of use out of it too, in a city campaign local knowledge and gather info are practically uber...

I believe they've said Illusionist is going to be a separate class in 4e. So they can't make the basic wizard too good at illusions without stepping on the illusionist's shtick.