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Right, because when the town is under attack by heavily armed adventurers the first thing the peasants do is charge the dude with the biggest sword.

I'm at an opinion that falls between your second and third option. Mine would read: Yes, because for playable races, the distinguishing factor should be powers and abilities, rather than stats. The current set up has non-optimal races for a class behind optimal races by 2 points in the primary...

Nice! Now I feel silly about doing it the long way. I just don't think recursively, I guess.

You asked for it, you got it. Assumptions: Using a single fair die, whether a d4, d6, d8, d10, or d12, we will roll it up to four times. We only take a second roll if the first was maximal, we only take a third roll if the second roll was taken and maximal, and we only take a fourth roll if...

These things are effects of being small. I don't have the books, so I have to ask: are they the only effects of being small? In third edition, small characters got bonuses to attack, AC, and the hide skill. Did any of those bonuses make it into fourth edition? Does being small allow you to...

Ooh! Math! Let me play! Probability of getting 15 or better on an open-ended d4 roll: 1/4*1/4*1/4*1/2=1/132 or about 0.75%. (That's a 4 on roll 1, 4 on roll 2, 4 on roll 3, and 3 or 4 on roll 4.) Probability of getting 15 or better on an open-ended d6 roll: 1/6*1/6*4/6=4/216=1/54 or about...

"I might kill whoever you wanted me to miracle."

I got the impression that skill based DCs are pretty much stationary throughout the tier. So DCs are hard for 1st level characters, tolerable for 5th level characters, and easy for 10th level character. When the PCs hit 11th level, the difficulties scale up and everything's hard again. I...

If you get motion sickness from riding on a jumping, spinning horse I don't see how it being on the ground is going to help. Maybe epic heroism isn't for you; may I suggest farming? Very few people get motion sickness hoeing melons. Right, this is the "everybody can fly all the time"...

So it's a marketing decision? WotC decided that bringing those scalies and furries was more profitable than having female dragonborn without boobs? If that is the case, I don't see how we can blame WotC for having good business sense. They don't create scalies/furries, they just sell them things.

The warlord can provide an Opportunity Attack to any ally. However, Oppportunity Attacks can only be performed on targets the attacker threatens, and characters only threaten adjacent squares. So if the warlord gives the Opportunity Attack to an archer, the archer probably won't be able to use it.

I don't see your problem. Most five story buildings are in towns and cities. You know, places with lots of building of various heights, including four story buildings. A little phantom steed hopscotch can be good clean fun. If a building is five stories tall and not surrounded by other...

That's where I get what designers are trying to do without being one of them. You may notice that in the post you are quoting I justify marking with a ranged attack as cover fire that has a chance to do damage, as well as provide cover. I found saying that very easy. I'd like to point out...

I'm looking forward to that time, 20 or 30 years from now, when I hear someone say "I really miss the days when dragonborn were exotic." Please bear in mind that there are people playing D&D now who were born after elves had become commonplace. They want a chance to play a character from an...

This is exactly right. The trick with feelgood magic is that it needs to refrain from interfering with combat magic. I suspect that the feelgood magic will mostly live in the rituals(for the longer term effects) and cantrips(for the smaller, quicker stuff). Light is a great tool for gently...

This is why I sing the praises of the creators of fourth edition. They replaced D&D magic with a magic system that is fast, easily adjudicated, and balanced. I don't mind a game that changes as you climb the XP ladder. I do mind a game that makes certain characters become increasingly...

Well, as I understand it, the theory is that PC's and appropriately levelled monsters will be hitting each other about half the time. The pregens with attacks that target AC have to-hit bonuses ranging from +3 to +8, which means a 50-75% chance to hit. Meanwhile the pregens AC's range from 14...

The hunter's quarry and warlock's curse also have no chance of failure. The fighter needs to make an attack to mark a target, not just point at them. So we're dealing with cover fire that also might actually hit the target. That would fall under "making monster's immune to class-defining...

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There seems to be some confusion. From page 46: I don't know where the claims that grabbing causes the restrained condition are coming from.