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I like this thread, it brings up some very good concepts with regards to how combat works in reality, and how it could be incorporated (or has been) in gaming. One thing I think is worth going into more depth on is the whole morale or "mindset" issue. A highly skilled combatant won't just be...

I agree with Kamikaze Midget... the biggest issue I'm getting from this thread is that 4e isn't taking into account when a Monster might be used as an Ally. I'm fine with building NPCs or Monsters differently to be quicker and better referenced for the DM. I'm not fine with giving NPCs or...

I like how people toss around terms blithely like "normal people will die from a hit or two", etc. Human beings are surprisingly resilient creatures. I live in Canada, and the city I'm in was once called the "Stabbing Capital" of Canada, because most of our murders were via stabbings. It was...

1d6 fire damage, especially in the upcoming 4e rules, wouldn't really be that much comparitive damage. Would it necessarily ignite things? Remember, fire damage is basically "heat" in D&D, so being burned enough to do 1d6 damage (even per round) isn't really necessarily enough to ignite or...

Thanks for ignoring my point. ALL PCs are "one-in-a-million" people. Just because they bring an animal that isn't local, doesn't mean the entire ecology of the local campaign needs to change. Which is what people were arguing about and what I was answering. Also, it doesn't have to play that...

Yeah, the difference here is that it's a PC with the dinosaur. The one-in-a-million type person that could be from anywhere on the planet coming in with this non-local beast. As long as there was a modicum of backstory indicating that the Druid was from, or visited, some far off place that the...

I've never seen Spring Attack used to move out of a threatened space both before and after the attack (usually it's after the move only.. as in, move into combat and then out again, and not provoking for moving out). I guess since the wording is a blanket "moving in this way" it makes sense...

Who says it has to be a Good or Evil Warlock? I just like the idea of a person who steals or makes pacts to get his powers rather than trains, or prays for them. For example... I've had the idea of a campaign setting here the spellcasters gained their magic through pacts with Elementals from...

It doesn't sound like Spring Attack at all... there's nothing about movement before the attack whatsoever, he was surrounded remember? "Thanks to a class power, Biggie could attack one of the elves and then move away without provoking an AoO from that opponent." That sounds more like an...

Well, I did say that they could have creature specific info to make your DMG entries more "Dragon-Flavoured". There's nothing said so far that the Dragon entries don't have "Psychology", "Society", and "Knowledge" blurbs, among other things. These could cover how to play the Dragon in a...

When you boil things down, what's the difference between a Dragon wanting to build a lair and protect himself magically... and any other highly intelligent creature found in the MM. The DMG should have the "Lair living, mastermind NPC building tools" that can be applied to any number of...

It sounds to me that a lot of what people are asking for is "NPC Building Tools", not MM stat block info. Building a Dragon as an NPC world shaker isn't something that the MM is meant for. That's what the DMG's NPC building rules are for. I really don't understand the idea of making an...

Sorry, forgot about that. According to the article, we are talking about adding 1d6 damage for being a crit-heavy weapon. So max damage + 1d6. So update my quote to say "if 1d6 more than normally possible damage is a problem". Considering there's a "nice cushion of hitpoints" for even...

Also, a note on "the only hits are critical" thing. This is something I consider a non-issue. It actually makes the most thematic sense. The farmer can only hit if he lands a 20, meaning his normal attacks bounce off all the armor, and are dodged or deflected... So the only time the farmer...

The problem here is that you are taking one aspect of the 4e system (crits on 20s), and ignoring the other half (no more double/triple.quadruple damage). Yes, nat 20 = crit/autohit would be a significant thing and have a large impact on play... IF, and this is a big IF, the damage was able to...

Fighter gets stabbed in the stomach by the big bad guy. His response? Headbutts the guy, pulls the sword out and makes a witty reply through gritted teeth as he stabs down with the blade. THAT'S Fighter training. A threat like that probably would have taken a massive amount of HP damage. Being...

I think the major drawback to fighting with two large weapons comes from trying to use them with the same combat technique as a long/short combo. Basically, two longer weapons would require a different sort of movements to be effective (momentum, positioning, etc)... as different as using a...

Something I always found odd was that the average farmer (usually considered what a Commoner would be) would be MORE frail than a scholarly wizard. In fact... the only class to best represent a scholarly type NPC was an Expert or Adept... which both have more HP. I can't think of a single...

Unfortunately, 3e has used the same feat for two concepts with regards to exotic weapon proficiency. One is to classify a set of weapons as being "non-standard for the setting". Meaning, kama, nunchaku, etc. These weapons, stats-wise, aren't any "better", rather they are just different flavour...