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Pity our brothers in darkest Jockistan!

You know, I don't actually remember the chronology of it, but I think I got into the Lone Wolf books, and D&D choose-your-own-adventures like Mountain of Mirrors, somewhat before D&D. I remember exactly when I got into D&D; I got the red box Basic set as a reward for getting to the regionals in...

Oh, that? Well, I don't think that naming the feats and powers differently would have been enough to make the PHB exciting to read. Did griping about it scare the designers off, maybe, I sorta hope not because all the discussion at that time was based on parsing blog posts, my goodness, just ask...

Would it have mattered? :D

Ooh I forgot how much fun talking about this sort of thing is... Yes. Internal politics among the NPC colonists that the PCs arrive with ought to be pretty intense. And certainly a few of the NPCs should be as able to take care of themselves as well as the PCs can (freeing the PCs to go...

Actually this is currently my number one problem, not minions or martial powers or whatever. Most of that I can deal with. But I look at the book and can't get excited about starting a game. Let alone running one. I mean, if people I knew were playing a 4e game, I'd join in happily enough, so...

The 4e treatment is a pretty big break from previous editions, where different classes have their own mechanics to differentiate the flavor of the magic they wield or the ambush skills they have or whatever. On the other hand You have to admit that many of the monster-identifying skill uses...

So every time I see this thread pop up again I want to start a new one entitled "Male gamers: Weal or woe?" and honestly by now I really just want the voices to stop.

See, I personally prefer Strafe, but I would have to agree that Multishot is the safer skill. No lock! BTW, I don't believe MS lets you hit a target with more than one arrow – that is, I'm pretty sure the damage is 75% (or whatever) of arrow damage however you hit an enemy. It's Charged Bolt...

Yeah, RW rapiers were made to game reach, not speed, esp. early on – they were about as heavy or heavier than any other one-handed sword and could parry them basically just fine. Now, if you're talking something closer to a smallsword (epee), you'd avoid doing straight-on parries – your game...

The spiked-chain trip-monkey knocking large foes on their butts every round is not really believable (outside of an afternoon kung-fu-movie atmosphere). But in general, no, there's lots of ways to knock an opponent down and a guy with Improved Trip presumably knows a lot of them.

Just for 1d6 sneak attack? Sure, that's all right, but it hardly obsoletes the rogue class. And why wouldn't you then go rogue 4/ranger X? You're still at -1 BAB, and if you spread it out you can get reasonably competent at one or two rogue skills. And wait wait wait Hide/Move Silently are...

I... completely don't see the difference between this and the way 4e encounters are built. "Boy, we'd have been screwed if four of those orcs weren't minions, eh?" In any case this is finessable. The bad guys foil the casters because dealing with casters is something they've done before (or is...

I've never, ever, ever heard of this one.

That's not so, you don't even need to go outside of fighter. Greatsword/PA brute + trip monkey. They could probably come up with two or three other complementary tactics with more levels. Now, it's not something you'd really see except in big parties because of the usual expectations of how...

How about just "Psycho Killer"? 'Cause that guy looks like Hannibal Lecter in a cloak to me.

Not that I am very much on the pompom side of this issue but have the cleric start getting stingy with the cure spells and you get yourself a hierarchy real quick. This is actually something that I've never liked about earlier D&D party dynamics, they directly imply that the exploits of the...

I'd probably give 2e a whirl, just because I skipped that edition. Wouldn't do anything with kits or a lot of the later splats though.

For this I've always favored an arcane shapechanger that assumes forms or aspects of forms of creatures from other planes – the self-buff specialist; Tenser and his Transformations. Since I favor it, it means they'll never write up such a class, so that's as close to existence as it'll ever...

If you really wanted to jack up the AD&D fighter's kill rate vs. goblins, weapon spec (dart) is the way to go I'd think. What is that, 4 attacks/ round @ 1d3+2? I forget exactly. (To tell the truth I am mostly going from Baldur's Gate with that.) With the scenario described he'd probably live...