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My black hatred of "required roles" knows no bounds. If you want to run a campaign of thieves running heists; swordsmen on the warpath; arcane casters discovering the secrets of the world – do so! You... just... play... to their strengths. Maybe careful underlining of what threats are best...

The least inspiring monsters to me are, in order: - the lawful neutral extraplanars (inevitables, formians) - the various underwater humanoids - the nightshades (they would make good big bads if I needed a Sauron or Ringwraith stand-in. I never do.) - sphinxes (I've never run an...

Well, yeah, who uses Doom spells in Final Fantasy games? That's why something like Slay Living ought to stun its target while it drains his hit points/Con. You want the guy clutching at his heart trying to keep it beating, not running up in a hurry, raging or whatever, and power-attacking the...

I would not want to break the function of the very highest-level magics, because it is lame if a mage of ultimate power can't summon great demons, turn into anything he wants, etc. It is possible those kinds of ultimate powers should involve lengthy rituals, however... magic should be able to...

Yeah, I'm currently considering house-ruling for example slay living so that it does either clvl*d6 per round or Con damage per round + stun, so it's more like save or you will die soon, and the effect ends when the caster is incapacitated or the effect dispelled. Like being in check vs...

Yeah, and I skew the flavor of bards too, but would you rather have to graft these priestly/ captainly elements upon a basically musical class – it is pretty hard to cut out all the musical elements of the class even if you go oratory, I've found – or else, have some mechanism for grafting these...

It would be pretty cool if the "leader" role could be assigned to different classes by a feat chain or prestige class or some kind of mechanic, so if the leader was a warrior-type, he could bolster party members' attack power; a rogue-type would boost the party's ambushing ability and provide...

It would give the regenerate spell something to do at least. How and why that spell has wound up being higher level than raise dead I will never be able to figure out...

I agree with those who are saying that 3.5 is at least as lethal as 1e, difference being that it's the straight-up fights – or, more likely, the not-so-straight-up fights, since there's a tendency to plan out elaborate ambushes* – that'll kill you in 3.5, plus in 1e you eventually get a pretty...

:: stares blankly :: Yes. Yes, we will instead build mystery and wonder out of things the players know by heart. You step into a cave. It is shiny and sparkly. It's not even that awesome mystery and wonder will reside in every magic sword the players find, of course it won't. Or that even...

Nonononono... I am going from memory here, but as I recall, it's supposed to scale from the first 20 (a 20 after all modifiers) up one for each armor class step. So if the bad guy hits AC -2 on a 20, and he has an additional +2 to hit, he'll hit AC -2 on an 18, AC -3 on a 19, AC -4 on a 20, up...

Aren't fighters in 4e supposed to have various supermurderous weapon maneuvers that are keyed to weapon types? If so, wouldn't implementing exotic weapons involve creating maneuvers with for example a fighting chain that caused markedly different effects than what would be available with a...

Well, the minimum attribute business in 1e/2e wound up veering pretty directly to MAD in 3e classes, though I suppose the druid escaped unscathed. (Bah.) Anyway, given the history, I'm wondering if people who roll for stats in 3e ever implement minimum attribute schemes for any of the classes...

That is how I would play it, and the rationale I'd use. I might throw in a -2 circumstance penalty. The touch attack scores automatically. But no way am I throwing a save-or-die at a player like that. Gross.

Yeah, look. You give one of the game's players the lion's share of the work, you give that player perks. Meaning, power, unless you have other ideas.

Mac, yo. By the way, NWN 2... yay? Everyone says pretty mixed things about it. On the one hand, pretty. More classes! On the other hand, complaints. I've heard that it's kind of a downgrade in some ways. Personally, I can't believe they kept Parry. Thoughts?

DOGMEAT! Awesome. Also, try playing a PC who's really stupid. :D

Ooh Bard's Tale. I only finished III. I wiped out Trajan pretty easy – don't remember losing anybody. I dunno how your monk is dying – monks are crazy strong in that game. But then BT I seemed a lot harder at the start than II or III the last time I tried running it through an emulator...

Look – and this came up in the "ideal new D&D cartoon" discussion – the mainstream is much closer to D&D tropes in this day and age than it was in the early 1980s, which appears to be most people's frame of reference around here. What is less mainstream about D&D than ever is that it is a...

They get lost? Sick? Today begins the epic tale of Bard vs. Scurvy! Also, use these in combination maybe. The bard must find a fence for the smuggled goods, but he's got sick crewmen, and has to somehow get the goods out of quarantine afore the authorities find it, or bardy's goin' to jail...