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Side note... Nowadays, ogres aren't really that much to write home about - as far as monsters go, they're not significantly more interesting than their 3rd edition counterparts, and they're only heroic-tier monsters which can easily be locked down by good controllery tactics. Also, to me and my...

2d10 changes way, way more than people seem to realize. 2d10 will make it much harder to fight a Solo creature, as you need the higher-ended rolls which become more rare. 2d10 makes any bonus to attack (such as from your buddy's Furious Smash) increasingly awesome as your probability nears and...

The 3e gestalt didn't exactly *double* hit points, you simply took the best hit dice of either class. For a 4e gestalt, I'd stick with the same "best of both worlds" philosophy. A warlord/wizard under "best from either class, non-stacking" rules akin to 3.5 gestalt would get 5 hp per level, +1...

Or he could subsume standard magic weapons into his body, just like the playable Sphinx race mentioned here: Game Design Fanatic: Sphinx race writeup That way the DM can drop treasure more normally.

As mentioned on Game Design Fanatic (Game Design Fanatic: Trouble with balance of special defenses), AC increases faster than special defenses due to Masterwork armors, nevertheless monster attack bonuses go up at the same rate whether targeting AC or not. I've been thinking about reducing...

(off-topic; carry on without me) I think the last time I ever heard the phrase "daisy chain", I also heard "null modem cables" in the same sentence. Nostalgic...

In my experience at the RPGA (where "balanced" group composition is never guaranteed and you just might have all strikers or even no strikers), a warlord "stacks" better with other leaders than clerics, bards, or artificers do. The greatest amount of redundancy I see is that depending on power...

Great stuff, bagpuss/mengu. Terrain, traps and hazards in the outdoors are always a little bit lacking. Nonmagical stuff is also nice to have around. Have you done other stuff like this? Would you stat up a foxhole using a similar method, or would that just be a man-sized hole in the ground...

Yeah, now that you mention it, I'm always borrowing d8s for my sneak attack in one of my games. What are you using to chart these results, danmar? I doubt you'lre rolling 1000 times per roll.

Would 2d8 (exploding) be closer to the average d20 roll that we all know and love, 10.5? I do think the players would like an exploding result system, but I don't want to be changing DCs across the board for it. You'd think that, in the past 5 decades or so of gaming, someone would have created...

It can be quite frustrating to get attacked and then immediately take ongoing damage before the sluggish dwarf cleric has even said 'boo'. Simply take damage at the beginning of your opponent's turn and then roll a saving throw. Or, for slightly better consistency with established rules, take...

Aye, being able to use Weapon Focus is much simpler than Burning Blizzard and feats like it.

It's not like gestalt's power level was ever predictable in the first place. You could pretty much do whatever you want. 4e's encounters can scale better now, too. Just use fewer monsters and lower-level elites and solos. Don't worry too much about class composition; I'm in a game with 4...

I am a much bigger fan of Obsidian, but that is because I think as a DM and Obsidian is much easier. This system, though, certainly has a lot more interesting options to it. I guess I could see, from a player's perspective, how this feels more intricate and "challenging" and might make it feel...

I'm highly interested in trying GURPS, Burning Wheel, and Dying Earth, but I'd be happy to try almost anything. Due to almost all of my experience being with D&D, I'm looking to join a group, not run one, though I do own the Burning Wheel rulebooks and I guess I could try wing-and-prayer-ing it...

Actually, in the "creating monsters" or "making monsters" section of the DMG, it mentions that custom monsters' stats have a certain baseline, and above or below average ability scores change the monsters' stats by plus or minus one. (I'm Away From Book, but I know it's in the DM's Toolbox...

Noooooo! You make me cry. Does the errata fix that to any extent? I'm going to be DMing pretty seriously in the near future, and I was hoping I could trust that CR wasn't a joke/facade this time around.

That sounds great; glad to hear you've seen it in action. I used your system a little bit, several months ago, and then my group disintegrated. I thought of a few alternatives to the primary skill system more as a brainstorm, than out of anything I dislike about primary skills. I think the fun...

This is a summary. For this review, a little bit more information would be handy. Why don't you, the reviewer, feel that the last section fits the tone of the book? Tell us something about Southland and Borderland beyond a brief description of them. What's good, what's bad? At the end, a little...

This sounds like the spirit of Swords and Wizardry's D&D 0e (Swords & Wizardry home page) "try anything; imagine the hell out of it!" approach mixed with 3.X's approach of "yeah, we've got [rules for] that". I don't think I'd want to refer to this system every time because it's so comprehensive...