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I choose option 3: Meh, whatever. Look, D&D's armour list has always been a hodgepodge of anachronisms, linguistic redundancies, inaccuracies and outright nonsense. But given that it's always been trying to incorporate tropes from a variety of largely incompatible material, that was pretty much...

In 3rd Edition, yes. Since 3rd Edition, no. In 4E "A light source illuminates its square (your square if you're carrying the light source) and all squares within the range shown on the table. For example, if you carry a torch, bright light illuminates your square and 5 squares in every...

Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder. You look at that fighter/magic-user situation and see beauty, whereas I look at the same situation and see ugliness. In any campaign where play remains at low levels, the magic-user class is trapped at a lower power for reasons that are utterly...

I think it all ends up being a bit of a no-win scenario. Avoid change, and the fans have no reason to buy your books because they already own the material. Embrace change, and the fans get upset that you changed things. Undo change, and the fans who liked the changes get upset that you...

I'm a 4E player. 4E wizards, if they pay the price in stats and proficiency feats, are entirely capable of using plate (tricky, requiring stat investment and multiple feats) and greatswords (easy, one feat). Despite the option being there, few take it. The costs outweigh the benefits. I'm not...

Maybe I'm missing something somewhere, but how does the presence of weapon and armour proficiencies and a +1 to attack with weapons in any way, shape, or form force anyone into doing anything? If I want to build an archer fighter, I will be proficient in the use of rapiers, sickles, halberds...

Because I had to. The first campaign I played in got me hooked on the game. I needed to play more. My DM had neither the time nor the inclination to either have the group meet more often or to run a second group. So in order to have more time to play, I had to step into the role of DM and...

I personally prefer to keep language acquisition purely in the role-play department. It seems awkward and a little silly to me to have characters suddenly acquire complete fluency in multiple languages that they didn't know a word of before level-up. Especially in campaigns where level-ups...

I can totally get behind this idea. In fact, I think it can be expanded to incorporate the rat-like kobolds and the horned dog-face kobolds of their pre-lizard days. Kobolds are shapechangers that don't realize it. Their shape is determined by their own beliefs as to what they should look like...

Even if you get bored of the argument, D&D player characters have never been just anyone. An OD&D level 1 Fighting Man isn't a farmhand picking up his first sword, he's a Veteran. No 1st level wizard in any edition has just found out about magic: they're all people who've put in years of...

The 'average' human adventurer. The character generation stats are for generating PCs, not the supporting cast.

lol, well, you didn't exactly solve my rapier issues. You made it even more expensive, while increasing it to the weight of the short sword. Now the two weapons are statistically identical, but one must pay a 25 gold premium to call your short sword a rapier for no mechanical benefit whatsoever.

My little pet peeve with the weapons table at the moment is rapiers. Compare the rapier to the short sword. They have the same damage die, same damage type, same weapon category. In fact, there are only two differences between the weapons at all: rapiers are 1 lb lighter, and cost 2.5 times as...

The thing is, the fighter never has been allowed, and likely never will be allowed, to be as dominant in the combat pillar as other classes are allowed to be in other pillars. They're not even allowed to be as relatively effective in the other pillars as other classes get to be in combat...

The current ruling is that, yes, if you have both advantage and disadvantage, regardless of how many times and ways you have either, they cancel out and you only roll one die. However, things that require advantage (such as Sneak Attack) would still trigger. Presumably to avoid making it too...

My mistake. Sorry about that. :)

While I agree on no retroactive switching, some of the uses of Combat Expertise dice are quite explicitly for use after the to hit roll, and some are even for after the damage roll and the results thereof. Cleave, for instance, can only be triggered after reducing an enemy to 0. In fact, the...

Impossible, perhaps not. Improbable in any campaign that doesn't conform to a set number of "situations" (or as we called them in 4E, encounters) per day? Certainly. Look, I'd love to have the freedom to have a campaign in which, on any given day, the players do not and can not know how many...

All fighters get Deadly Strike and Parry at level 1, so there's no need for it to be included in a fighting style.

Level 1 character in plate, 4E AC 18 Level 1 character in plate, 5E AC 18 Cost of plate in 4E 50 gp Cost of plate in 5E 5000 gp Man, the economy is in bad shape. That's some pretty nasty inflation.