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Hell hounds. \m/ "Hey Kaneda, they stole your dog." "No way! My dog?" ROWR *fwoosh*

Happily in a fantasy game you are free to have multiple worlds! Room for everyone. I also make some (sometimes relatively "common" even) monsters into uniques. My world has The Medusa, for example.

I imagine I would want to play the game into paragon and see how it goes. Then, later, if I feel like sticking to the heroic tier, there'll be more written material for me to draw from, to fill things out. E6 benefits from a decent amount of splatbook stuff I think.

Yeah, power sources smell very very cosmetic to me. I can't currently imagine that if they write up, for example, a bard class, and give them a power source that doesn't suit my campaign, I couldn't just say "screw it, bards are power source Nature" without changing a single other thing. So I...

I've thought about this for a bit, and I really think it's going to take a good bit of on-the-table-use to really get a feel of when/how skill challenges are helpful, but my current thoughts are: Given the two play examples I know of – "escape from Sembia" and "find the secret of the tree" –...

Well, if Miko can survive being chucked through masonry to land miles away by The Monster In The Box, O-Chuul's a shoo-in. :D

If the PCs are 5th level (has that really been determined?) then the King can take them. With a fair number of casualties, but nothing the kingdom can't deal with – in any but the lowest-demographic, harshest point-of-light setting, this will be true. If the PCs are 10th level, things get...

You know, honestly, I don't see the particular problem with winning a skill challenge in 3 if you're normally supposed to win it in 6, now that you mention it. But there were others posting in this thread who did see that as a problem and I guess I was responding to that. In re improvising in...

I like skill challenges a lot. My concern is that they seem to demand a lot of the improvisational storytelling abilities of the DM, and I can see situations where a player throws a really weird use of an unexpected skill at me and I fumble the whole thing. Sort of the catastrophic version of...

aaaagh what a long thread. a) I can't think of much of any setting aside from dawn-of-the-heroic-age-classical, barbaric, or else extremely campy, where going off and killing the king's man in the heat of the moment doesn't arouse the king's ire, duelling traditions entirely nonwithstanding...

A very simple thing to get in the way of PCs in a giant's stronghold? Giant-size stairs.

Aren't you pompous. Anyway, false.

It's not much of a point. As for minion-class monsters, I'm talking about the monsters set up to drop whenever PCs damage them. Has that changed?

I'm not sure what the point of 4E cleave is, except to metagame whether you're up against minion-class monsters or not. "Ooh, I took down two! Minions, people!"

Absolutely. My longtime homebrew setting has several PoL areas. One is a region of bickering, undisciplined freeholds that is in rough enough, low-production terrain that it's not feasible for them to extend their power very far, but each freehold is very very defensible; another, more hardcore...

*** SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM THE "4E" TEAM at WOTC *** IT WAS ALL A DREAM We're sorry! We really had you guys going there for a bit. Did you really think we were going to change all the rules of the game you've come to love over the past 8 years? Psh. I mean, really. No, in fact what this has been...

I agree with this. It's why I really wanted the druid to get split up into shapeshifter (defender or striker) and caster (controller or leader) classes; and of the problems people have with 3e, CoDzilla is high up there (plus it's one I agree with) so I'm irritated with this initial peek into...

The thing of it is, I've wanted to play with/include saurian races in D&D ever since I picked it up, but none of the saurian humanoids I've seen have ever really felt right: lizardmen: caveman baggage troglodytes: caveman baggage, plus they smell yuan-ti: pretty cool, but shapeshifter/...

The way I see the "primal" power source breaking down is: striker -> barbarian/berserker defender -> shapeshifter (splitting off that branch of druid powers) controller -> druid (entangle, call lightning, produce flame, creeping doom, etc.) leader -> bard (because it'd be nice to link bards and...

Yes you can. You ignore the array. Which to begin with is a suggestion for making things easier for DMs to stat up minor characters the brick-by-brick way, not a hard and fast rule for what NPCs are capable of, even if you were playing things strictly by the book.