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JRRNeiklot I don't think Jason Alexander's quoted examples really hold for any edition of D&D. Correct me if I'm wrong, but to the best of my knowledge there's never been an edition of the game where a good night's rest didn't recover at least 1 HP. If such is the case, then in any non-fatal...

It seems to me that saying either thing takes about the same amount of time and effort, which is to say, very little time and effort at all.

I don't. The more eyes and ears trying to find something, whether in game or in life, the more likely it is to be spotted. Hiding from a group of alert adventurers in anywhere near melee range should be spectacularly difficult.

4E also uses subclass, but it's something quite distinct from themes in that system. As far as I understand what they've said about themes in the new system, it also sounds like subclass would be the wrong term for them. Humanoid is fine (though not entirely necessary, and rather...

No, I think you're just reading it wrong. Gnolls and bugbears and giants will still be around. It's just that orcs never become non-threats, and therefore gnolls and bugbears and giants don't have to serve as proxies for orcs after the orcs have been left behind.

So only Lawful Good characters can be heroic and virtuous?

Diablo III? No. League of Legends? No. 5E is Angry Birds

I must say that, as a 4E player, I often find discussions of 3.X to be filled with jargon I don't understand. I know that some of it stretches back to the earliest versions of the game. However, other things are quite specific to the 3.X system. CR. ECL. LA. BAB. Prestige Class. Favored Class...

KesselZero: I agree that that's one possible interpretation of that. Another is optional weapon-breakage rules and an unlucky roll, combined with just picking up the nearest weapon at hand. If he had rolled a 20 instead of a 1 on his first attack, maybe his sword would still be intact and the...

While I agree that a "sword sharp enough to cut through most things" is desirable, and has plenty of fantasy and sci-fi precedent, I don't think that +1 to accuracy in any way models that. A more evocative way to model it would be things like sundering weapons and armour, bonuses to destroying...

Here's the thing, though: an expected wealth level being met tells you literally nothing about what challenges a party is prepared to meet. So the rules say that a character of level X should have a wealth of Y GP Adam has, literally, Y GP. Barbara has Y GP carefully divided into appropriate...

As long as it's not a +n water buffalo...

I'm entirely willing to grant that. However, given that dulling of blades is not something covered by rules, the difference between a blade that literally never dulls and a blade that we never bother to mention occasionally needs sharpening is subtle, at best. Any sword can be described as...

The damage that fire does is a number, as is damage from any other source. Fire itself is not a number. Fire is a light source, heat source, and damage source. It's also a damage type. Fire is no more a number than an orc, a dragon, or a spiked pit is a number. In 4E a weapon that was...

It's entirely possible I'll be playing or running the next edition, but if I am, it's almost certainly in addition to playing 4th, rather than instead of.

I think I've made my stance towards +1 weapons and their ilk abundantly clear in several topics of late, so I don't think I'll go to the effort of repeating myself in full here. In short, I don't like them, for multiple reasons. However, my real reason for posting here is to say that, thanks...

To me, and I imagine many others who don't want mechanical alignment, this is to be considered one of the benefits. Unless I'm misinterpreting their statements, some of the people who are advocating for alignment in this very thread think alignment is subjective, to some degree or another. I...

How honest is "honest"?

While I can't parse some of the terminology used (some of it differing from that used in my edition of choice), I can see some rather distinct flaws. 1. You need to define what classes, and what possible class-combos, count as a "primary offensive spellcaster", and a "frontline fighter". 2...

All the more reason that warrior classes shouldn't just be sacks of HP with high attack bonuses.