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  1. Yair

    Did you houserule Hardness back?

    So, it seems very few actually play with the rules for damaging objects as they appear on the DMG, despite the high rating of the option saying you stick to 4e rules. Alrighty. It appears that the rules were intended to include resistance for objects, but that it got cut. Which is unfortunate...
  2. Yair

    Did you houserule Hardness back?

    Can any of you guys that have not houseruled it say why? Has it not come up? Are you happy with weapons/fists cutting through walls or steel? Do you see the RAW as not implying that? I'd like to understand why I'm finding a need to houserule here, whereas most people apparently don't.
  3. Yair

    Did you houserule Hardness back?

    Well, I figured that it's a question on whether people house-ruled, not so much a discussion of house-rules as such. So I figure it belongs in General. Sorry if I misunderstood the division of labor.
  4. Yair

    Did you houserule Hardness back?

    I just made my first houserule, after the party blasted trap-statues and vault-doors with artillery and, having discussed the rules (objects having only hp, not hardness or resistance to damage types), realized that one can punch his way out of jail. We didn't make a hard-and-fast new rule...
  5. Yair

    Feywild Reading List - Recommendations?

    I really liked Faery Tale too, very nice dark faerie mood. Another roleplaying book is Faeries (Revised) for Ars Magica. It isn't ArM's best book, and doesn't give much D&D stats, but is roleplaying-oriented and presents an interesting take on faeriland and the nature of faeries based on...
  6. Yair

    The Arcana Wiki - Distilling Real World information into gaming material

    It's an article on Isis IIRC, about how snakes appeared in Western mythology... The quote itself is ancient, Roman, but I'm not sure the translation is fair-game. I'll hunt the source down. Edit: I took the text from the article "Ancient Scientific Basis of the “Great Serpent” from Historical...
  7. Yair

    D&D Reference in Nature magazine

    I was reading the journal Nature (a high-impact scientific journal), and was amused to find a D&D reference. I thought I'd share. It's from Big data: Welcome to the petacentre, by Cory Doctorow:
  8. Yair

    The Arcana Wiki - Distilling Real World information into gaming material

    Something I run into that I thought might be interesting to put in such a wiki: an historical Roman account of running into a dragon. ...The most detailed account is preserved by Orosius (ca. A.D. 417), who probably derived it from the now lost Book 18 of Livy's Roman History: Regulus, chosen...
  9. Yair

    Did Keep on the Shadowfell result in a TPK for your group?

    I bearly had a TPK at this point too. The tactical situation was different, but essentially the party had little trouble handling the minions and finished with the warpriest easily, but found hadnling the skirmishers, dragonshields, and especially the goblin together with them practically...
  10. Yair

    Leaving ENworld at last

    Farewell. Have happy times wherever you go.
  11. Yair

    Penumbra D20

    I really liked Love & War. Not so much for the mechanics, which I haven't gotten to implementing, as for the wonderful treatment of chivalrous ideals. It really showcases the range of possible "knights" well, playing with putting the emphasis on various ideals - from honorable dwarven knights to...
  12. Yair

    Fan Site Policy: When is it coming?

    I have, some long time ago, referred some WotC guy (I think Rouse, but I'm not sure) to the issue of official fansites and their agreements with WotC. It was about Birghright, not Athas, but I was surprised to know thay WotC seemed to have no institutional memory of these agreements whatsoever...
  13. Yair

    Goodman is clearly going to the GSL.

    Now I'm even more surprised. I thought they went around the GSL. GG manages to surprise me again and again...
  14. Yair

    Goodman Games Releasing 4e Adventures Prior to October 1st

    Anyone knows where GG are located, and what are the laws like there? There are states with laws protecting the little guy from harrasment suits, perhaps GG is planning to use them if needed...
  15. Yair

    4e D&D GSL Live

    The thing is that I, for one, would be extremely surprised at both #1 and #2, so this is a rather interesting turn of events and I'm left to wonder which one of them is it. I think that's going too far. Many monsters in adventures are unique and/or original, and the GSL certainly allows to put...
  16. Yair

    The Return of the Half-Hour Workday

    I guess it is designed this way on purpose, but I find it... strange. What I'm really missing are the guidelines. How many encounters will wear out a party? I didn't see any guidance on this in the DMG - did I miss it? I am disappointed that the system doesn't seem to take this into account...
  17. Yair

    The Return of the Half-Hour Workday

    Are you pleased with the new healing rules? It seems to me that they strongly enforce per-day hit-points, limting healing to healing surges per day (with the exception of regeneration and so on, but I'm assuming that's rarely and not generally available to all the characters in the party). In...
  18. Yair

    4e D&D GSL Live

    Strange.
  19. Yair

    What happens if something I make gets added to the SRD? For Scott or Linae

    Then you should get a refund on that crystal ball, and use the money to reprint it as "Striding Sangha of Central Asia, of the Greater Naerthian Empire in Kolloth", and pray WotC doesn't step on THAT. ;)
  20. Yair

    What happens if something I make gets added to the SRD? For Scott or Linae

    I'll go on record betting that "Yes, you'll be in violation" is the answer. I would suggest you NEVER publsh just a "Monk" class. The "Leaping Monk of Shangrila" might be a safer bet. You'd be wise to equip yourself with a crystal ball to forsee WotC's future publications.
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