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Like a lot of 4E rules, the holy symbol implement rules are designed around playability and game balance first, with the assumption that the DM will change anything he finds stupid for his camapign world. So yeah, Transfer Enchantment should work fine, but your DM thinks that's stupid and is...

There are ways to make a celestial bloodline interesting. I've played in a homebrew setting where aasimar made up the 'noble class' of a kingdom ruled by descendents of divinity. The Kalashtar of Eberron were basically repackaged aasimar (though with different stats and smelling strongly of...

I'll take a shot at doing this for 4E. [1. Aragorn/Strider The leader of the Fellowship of the Ring, from J.R.R. Tolkiens "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, and the movie trilogy of the same name.] I'm tempted to say paladin, but really he's probably best modeled as a charismatic warlord. [2...

Assimar were a cool race filled with roleplaying opportunites? Really? "I have celestial ancestors!" "So what?" That's what it came down to. Now you could say much the same about pre-4E tieflings, but at least they had 'struggling to overcome my dark nature' to fall back on. Much less...

All of what you describe is a problem I call, "playing the game outside the game". Basically the stuff most significant to the group's success or failure come from things that are far removed from roleplaying, much less the tactical battlefield. Optimizing spells and magic items and buffs is...

The other part of this, which I mentioned briefly earlier in the thread, is that playing a high level fighter in D&D starts to get kind of boring. Roll attack, roll damage. Roll attack, roll damage. Yawn. There's not much strategy or tactics involved. If you're using one of the specialized...

I don't like the idea of making magic (and remember we're talking about more than just a single character class here) even more swingy. The solution you propose is really the same sort of tool 3E already uses to control spellcasters with spell resistance, high monster saving throws, and such...

The monsters are supposed to lose, after all.

There was a really awesome phrase used earlier in this thread. "A lot of effort in pursuit of a dubious goal". That's what I think of every time I read one of your posts. The DM can manage all of this, sure. The DM can drive the game reality so that there's a lot of baddies and the PCs can't...

I'm with a group that has slowly been playing through the Age of Worms adventure path in 3.5. (We only play every two weeks or less.) After last session, some of us made 19th level. Our mix of classes is pretty standard. Paladin (with young gold dragon mount/cohort), Wizard, Cleric, Archer...

No, the job of the DM is pause the game and find out why the player thinks having his character jump off a cliff is a good idea. Either: A. Some cirumstance has come up where the player believes this is a survivable and intelligent plan. Perhaps he misunderstood the height of the cliff...

This is a pretty weak problem. There's not a class in the game that doesn't play perfectly fine as a human. Dropping a few races, or all of them except humans, won't suddenly mean that roles go unfilled and game balance flies out of whack. Say no. Or even just be totally honest and say...

I guess I was too vague before. How is, "I was just having the world react in a realistic manner," any more of an excuse than that tried-and-true tune, "I was just playing my character,"? Just as a player shouldn't deliberately design a character that will cause nothing but misery and...

Wait, what? Did you seriously type that? I can picture it now. The DM says, "Sorry your PC got lynched, man, but it's totally not my fault. I don't control the world or determine how NPCs react or anything like that. I'm just a channeler, through which the personalities and beliefs of the...

I played a character who convinced the rest of the party that there were talking animals everywhere. Actually, though, I was just using a little magic to play a trick on them.

I agree. Other than a few magazine articles, Dark Sun has been out of print for a long time now. Coming back and starting fresh seems like a good idea. I think the important things to keep are: A harsh world of city-states ruled by Dragon Kings (epic level tyrants) separated by nearly...

My best advice is to never attempt something like this alone and preferably don't attempt it on a message board. Instead get together with the people who will actually be playing in the game and work it out with them face-to-face. This has two important advantages: 1. It gets the input of...

The trick with the prophecy is that it is utterly irrelevent to the plot at hand and matters not a whit whether it was this four words or that four words. The whole thing was a magnificent distraction for readers, making them think the prophecy somehow mattered.

I'm going to be converting a gnome wizard from 3E to 4E after the PHB II comes out. (Hopefully there will be some interesting racial feats useful for a wizard.) Is there any way I'm going to get any use out of the gnome power to make a stealth check at the beginning of combat? Should I bother...

I think that "God of Penitance" is a pretty narrow concept. Really, any God that emphasizes justice and societal bonds could work here. In the Greek pantheon for instance, I could see prisoners being called on to reform in the name of Hera. She's all about family bonds and motherhood and...