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YAY! Fixed! There are no problems in D&D!

taint gonna happen ... ?

Executive summary: Bulls: "This removes a game-stopping roadblock! Also it is shorter and removes corner cases." Bears: "It doesn't do the same thing any more! It's basically a different spell." (side discussion: argument about the number of lines that Dispel Magic took up in the 3.5 PHB)

oh, thanks for fixing that for jack99! It's helpful when people fix things.

That's how I read it too. I think that's a good way of describing it - sort of a split-second instinct that takes you by surprise. However, I can imagine the Charm keyword on the first attack indicating that the kiss charms if hits, and the secondary attack adds the bodyguard element, as someone...

Shouldn't this be in the "WoW" subforum inside the "4e is turning into WoW" subforum?

(except for posts 4 and 6)

Zing! Now the argument will shift ground. It will either be a) but now you can do it at 1st level, which is a problem, or b) but now you can return to a spot 30 feet away instead of 15 feet away, which is a problem. I can't predict which one. I can predict, however, that we will not be hearing...

What looks like about 3 pages, times 7 weeks until release, times 3 per week, means about 60 pages of the 3 core books available before june 6. Not too bad. (It might be 40, it might be 80, if this is either 2 or 4 pages. I didn't do a word count and compare it to the other released pages.)

If you think that it's a problem that there is a 45% chance of lower active than passive perception, and houserule it so that perception rolls cannot be below 10: Then you should houserule all 3.5 skills. In any situation where you can "take 10", say on a jump check, you should be allowed to...

Turning someone into a minion has other effects besides letting them be killed in 1 shot. It changes their damage, which is unnecessary since unaware NPCs won't be attacking you. It also reduces the XP award. This may or may not be desireable. I'd say it probably is unintended, since the idea...

The fear? I didn't know you were planning to switch to 4e, Derren.

I think those are cool ideas. How would you make roles explicit? I can't think of an interesting way to do that.

Not in many fantasy novels written before 1972 or thereabouts, I bet. That sounds like D&D-influenced novels. Sword and sorcery novels have plenty of wizards butchered by fighter types. Also: I agree with the good professor. D&D rules are 99% totally laughably ridiculous! Never let us forget...

So every opponent is worth approximately 50 XP per level (elite 100, minion 12); encounter XP is the total of all the opponents; and to determine the encounter level, you divide the total XP by (number of characters x 50)? That seems to work if you assume 4 PCs.

By my count, everyone in this thread likes minions except Derren. So this sort of seems like it's purposefully dissing everyone in the thread. Nice one, Derren!

I guess you could almost say that... the rules... should not be treated like the physics... of... nah, I almost had a good thought, but I lost it.

No trout about it.

Stormbringer, no offense taken. I just like to debate, and don't take it personally. I think I understand your position now. Personally, I believe the tweak to Raise Dead is a change, and a good one. I'll offer my argument: (NOTE: Before anyone mentions it, I know that a good DM can get...

The Savage Worlds Pirates game (and presumably other savage worlds games) has a neat rule for this. It's, basically, flip a coin for each casualty after the fight to see if they were killed or just wounded. I'd kind of like to see a simple rule like that introduced for minions. I've played in...