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Under U.S. law, that's not true at all. Consent can be implied and it often is. True, companies are known for spelling out what permissions they grant with exacting detail, but that doesn't mean there isn't also implied consent. Consider a six person D&D group, five players and one DM. Each has...

Hey Baumi, can you simply photocopy the character sheets or maps? I don't know about Vienna, but in Cupertino you can make photocopies at a library, even color ones. That's usually pretty cheep.

Here's how I plan on doing it: First, each attempt takes a certain amount of time. For escaping from manacles I'd set that at 30 minutes. Second, taking 20 takes 20 times a long. Not necessarily true, from a statistics point of view, but I'm comfortable with that. So, under those rules...

Good point. I think the dichotomy comes from the fact that, IRL, when people say something is 'easy' they mean that the chances of success is closer to 100%. In those cases, a DM wouldn't actually call for a roll, you'd just be able to do it. In context of dice rolls where there is supposed to...

Is this the first PHB that has backgrounds in it? Like 4e had backgrounds in PHB2, and 3.0 had backgrounds in the FRCS, but neither edition had backgrounds in the PHB. I don't think 3.5 did either. It interesting to me that the backgrounds in 5e are probably the most system portable...

Well, as someone else posted, they're going to be spamming cantrips. When you only get 2 or 3 first level spells, you'll like burn through them really quickly. And arcane recovery is only giving you 1 of those slots back. Also, I think the cure to spamming is to give Wizards reasons to use their...

I don't like banning things in the PHB. At least, not the first PHB of a given edition. I feel like I'm doing a disservice to new players (I've taught a lot of people) if I have to ban things in the book that's mostly responsible for bringing in new players. Also, I like having a book that's...

Dude, he wrote the opening post.

Wait, there are going to be feats that grant spellcasting? Was this in the playtest?

Well, the functionality DDI provides for 4e is going to be replaced by Project Morningstar for 5e. There's a thread about signing up for the Bata. Honestly, they're making the right call. DDI was designed for 4e and I think it reflects it's mindset. Hopefully, Dungeon and Dragon will be...

I should have been clearer. My original question (asked at one am my time) was about this bit from Surf's website: So, my question to Surf is are you going to be posting analysis of Starter Set monsters before Wizard's adds monster to Basic? Because I'm really curious about what's deducible...

Sorry. I had literally been paying no attention to DDN until I went to Wizard's site the Saturday after Independence Day to log into my DDI account and found out about Basic. It was a complete surprise. I've been trying to found out as much hard information as I can, but it's difficult because...

So, am I correct in thinking that you'll be pulling apart the Starter Set Monsters until new monsters come out in Basic? I'm hoping really, really, hard that when the PHB comes out, Basic is updated with some monsters. I remember something to that effect being said (that monsters would be added...

The capsule descriptions aren't for players, they're for DMs running monsters/NPCs. For a DM, such descriptions in published sources are quite valuable because they reduce the amount of looking-up that needs to be done for prep or running.

Well, they're treating them like full spell casters. I mean, I don't know why Flameskulls get spells (other then the lore provided, I'm saying I don't understand the game design reasons) but he's treated as a spell caster. They're not saying "treat X spell as a special ability (sp, su, or ex)...

You are likely on to something. For my 4e game last Saturday I didn't print out any of the monsters. What I had been doing is cutting and pasting an image of the Adventure Tools monster statblock into a two-column word-processing document (Pages, if you're curious) and printing out the sheet...

So, I'm with you about the lack of detail in stat blocks. My biggest problem with undetailed spells in stat blocks is that tactically and thematically important spells had a tendency to get lost. A second, minor, problem is that statblocks would be limited to spells in the PHB or detailed in...

My View 4e is about failing to convince the corrupt city guards that you're not really there to get Galroc, the thieves' guild's number 2 guy and so now you have to fight them. You guys tried, but they just weren't buying it. Well, now you're bloodied and down to two healing surges. You were...

I'm similar to you. I don't consider setting material rules, so I have no problem with changing them. Honestly, I'm mostly neutral as to what PHB setting material says. Occasionally, something in the default setting material will make me go "What!? That's terrible!" Or, more often, "Wow! That's...

There is one thing about the 3.x MMIs that I liked, but suspect won't be included. (Though I'd live them) And that is the Animal section (just various animal stats, nothing magical or special) and the vermin section (monsters bugs and rodents). I got a lot of milage out of those sections...