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Other than the turnover time between August 2000 and the Living City conversion that was a short time later (where Living City still ran under 2E rules for a while after the publication of 3E) I don't remember a lot of older edition play. Even Classics were 3E almost right from then, if I...

As a member of that community, I can safely say that we are NOT representative of the D&D community at large. We're off in our own little universe. Anyone is welcome to join in, but lots of folks wouldn't like it.

I get the feeling that this is more "hindsight hinting". To us in 2009 the hinting is kind of obvious, but to someone in 1989 reading this for the first time, I suspect that they would still be taken completely unawares when the problems crop up.

Why not? The extra damage is untyped. And it's not a free benefit - you are paying the opportunity cost of not wearing a different ring, many of which are very very good.

I steered my answers toward "I purchased the book; I use stuff from the book every session; I never bring the book to the table as a reference; I have never read the non-crunch sections and therefore have no opinion of them".

I play exclusively RPGA games, which leads to playing many characters. I play a nice mix of typical and atypical characters. Now, I'm generally as shallow as the next powergamer, and I love my optimized warforged barbarian to pieces. However, I find that I get a special kick out of taking a...

Word. Anecdotally, I know about 30 people with DDI subs, of whom about 3 have ever logged in to the Wizards forums.

"Dilution" has a this negative vibe to it, where the thing that is diluted is weakened as it spreads out. I kind of think that "growth" - where the thing that is growing is strengthened as it spreads out - might be more appropriate.

Well, Thanlis made an excellent review of the process, from the point of view of a new person joining in. All I can really do is add some overview type comments. 1) Keeping score - we used to do that, but we haven't since early in the decade. Although we do still formally keep track of...

I did it twice, myself. Once accidentally with a Druid (accidentally as in I had planned to be more of a controller-type Druid when I envisioned the character, but through both RP and mechanical experience I found the melee path worked better) and once deliberately with a Cleric.

Double plus ungood. lol

Time for some brutal self-honesty. :) I'm a big fan of the balancing/levelling-out of all the classes in 4E, but I secretly really enjoyed finding the loopholes and combos in 3.x and earlier that let me make crazy broken stupid PCs in ways that none of my friends could predict. I know I...

So basically what you're saying then, is that less is more, unless it is less, in which case it's more? (On topic - I like the "three and out" strategy, especially when combined with non-printed support through DDI.)

I've played around with a build like this (I've done it with Warforged, because that is all I play, but it would work just about as good with a human). The problem really is that the build doesn't really fill the role you're looking for until level 4 or 6 (it is a feat-heavy sort of thing to...

Well, I know that one year my gaming friends and I all took a Food Studies class in the block right before lunch together. We'd play and cook and got permission to have the room during lunch, so we got two hours a day, three days a week. Otherwise, though, we never played actually at the...

I was introducing two of my non-gamer friends to D&D. I ran the boxed adventure The Night of the Vampire, which I still have but don't recall the details of. The gist of it was that you eventually figure out the dude is a vampire and fight him, but initially you have no idea there even is a...

The one thing I'm worried about is that they call it "Players Handbook Races: ..." What about genasi, drow, warforged, etc. who were not in a PH? I want to see a warforged book.

There's something I'd like to see. An easier way to create custom powers and power cards in the CB. I figured out a way to make a custom card for the daily ability associated with the Barbarian multi-class feat Berserker's Fury, but it is a clunky and inelegant way to go about it. Actual...

I think the motivation for trying to make these things work is to be able to use as much of the standard 4E cosmology as possible in a way that doesn't compromise the "feel" of Dark Sun. "Feel" is a pretty ephemeral thing, and short of simply reprinting the original 2E box set they WILL fail to...

Now HERE's a guy who can re-fluff 4E stuff into Dark Sun. For the record, I am a big fan of the notion of the Feywild having already been "used up" as a primo source for defiling magic (possibly with isolated pokets of green still existing here and there, fiercely guarded by fey protectors)...