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I think the real solution is applying common sense to this situation. Can a housecat kill you by scratching you to death? No- its claws aren't nearly big enough to do more than make you bleed. Solution: Use your common sense instead of doing rediculous things like telling a commoner that a cat...

Wycen, that show is so awesome. Also, I'd second the sardines thing. Those things are disgusting, and I'd imagine that their small individual size means that they'd decompose pretty quick and be nice and rotten by the time they get their mail.

I always thought that one of the worst parts of D&D was the complexity. I don't want to have to crunch numbers and figure out optimal builds and whatnot, I really don't. I'll admit, sometimes it's pretty cool to play with numbers and see what's going on, but all in all, it's just as much fun to...

I'd say either stick it out or talk with the DM about either swapping characters or possibly retconning some of your character out. For example, instead of being a warlord, you can suddenly decide to be a fighter, or whatever. If I were another player in the group, I'd probably be ok with...

If you want for most of the world to be human, then just have them be humans. If you want most of your players to be human, though, that's kind of wierd. My advice, though, is to give your humans a little extra flair, maybe in the form of +3 to one stat. It's not that useful to have a +2 to any...

That's certainly an interesting idea, and I like the fact that it's harder to heal, giving criticals a bit of a sting, but not quite being lethal. I'm not sure if that's the right way to go, but it's certainly something to consider- have critical hits gotten too soft?

I understand the spirit of your complaint, but in an edition that, supposedly, broke so many other traditions, is there really any surprise they did away with weapons that I've never heard of anybody ever using?

Traditional D&D, as in OD&D, has about as much magic as an Iron Heroes campaign. Quibble aside ;), I'd say that you should run a game of OD&D/AD&D. Sure, they require a slightly different mindset, but they certainly have low-magic, especially if you disallow magic-users/clerics. If you're of...

I want a game that runs fast and feels like D&D used to. I want a game that encourages homebrewing, and doesn't have a hundred thousand fiddly rules and bits that get in the way of the looting and maiming. The most important thing for me, I guess, is that the game needs to reward player...

Except for the part where that Chaos guy gets killed by the elf female. That disappointed me, since everybody knows that Chaos warriors should win against elves.

I haven't noticed that powers, in and of themselves, get in the way of combat, but I have certainly noticed that stacks of rules do, 4e powers being a good example of them. I'm all about free-form combat, which is probably why I'm not for 4e or 3e these days. My suggestion: Go easy on the...

Since I tend to run sandbox-style games, it usually continues on until we get bored of the thing. I've never run a sort of campaign where I decide for them what the story is going to be and then wait for them to do it, so I can't really help you out there. But, I can certainly tell you what...

I never, ever cheat any of my players. We all know that our game is fairly lethal, and to be totally honest, I think that cheating cheapens the experience. We're playing D&D to play a band of plucky adventurer-theives looking for treasure and trouble, not to be a movie star. If we wanted to...

Personally, I wouldn't have a problem with atheist characters. So some guy says his magic powers come from Pelor, so what? The guy next to him, the wizard, has magic powers, too, and he says they don't come from anywhere. And that creepy-looking warlock fellow says his powers come from the...

I really like the flavor of the Far Realms-pact warlock. Cultist of Yog'Shoggoth? Count me in! But I'm a rogue at heart, and 4e's rogue has me wanting to stab my opponents in ways I never knew a mere rogue could.

I'd go with what Deodanth said, but is a portable ballista really going to be useful? From what I understand, they were hellishly difficult to aim, being relegated to artillery status in medieval times- you shot a couple bolts at the oncoming army as fast as possible, without aiming. You'd hit...

They do. pg 163 in the DMG, under Divine Evil. So you could have evil paladins do necrotic damage, and that Astral Weapon power deal damage to good creatures, or whatever it is that you think would fit best.

I'd have to say Teifling, because I like their style. Dragonborn come in second, because everybody likes dragons, and they have an honorable warrior ethical thing, which is pretty cool. Dead last comes Eladrin. I'm an anti-elf advocate, and having two elves in the PHB made me die a little...

I don't know if anybody really uses cloakers. Do they even exist in 4e? If it wasn't for a recent article in Kobold Quarterly, I don't think they'd even really have a place in the game except as a once-per-player gotcha: "Hah, that wasn't a cloak, it was a flying monster thing!"

As much as I love playing, I'm the driving force behind our group. I'm the only one who is willing to read all the books, wrestle with the numbers, recruit new players, and do the behind the scenes work. My lazy, spoiled players (bless them) are content to run the entire world, and themselves...