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I thought the original flavor of cleric was "Mobile First Aid Station"?

Err.....buh? What's he going to do with a bow in melee? Use it as an improvised club? Bows aren't melee weapons....how does having a wizard hold a bow make him a better melee combatant?

Heh, I'm kinda like that....except that my suggestions tend to make everyone more "powerful"....by making everything tend to get killed more easily. Besides, I'm the DM, so I don't have a character. What is this "share of treasure" business you speak of? I've heard of this before, and seen it...

All this should be a warning for you right now: If you have to think about this stuff, you're not taking enough effort to prevent it. A bit of prevention now will prevent a lot of agonizing about it later....because if you insist on building your house out of flammable materials like a moron, it...

That's probably the problem, yes. I never rest, until I return to town hauling back my loot. I wish you could employ the services of a pack mule here. That would significantly improve my ability to schlep back the loot. You're just bad at it....plus CRPGs tend to go for quantity over quality...

If my home were burning, it'd be because I set it on fire. One of the lovely things about living encased in steel and concrete is that napalm becomes your universal pest control and cleaning solution. If an actual fire, probably involving large amounts of thermite, somehow managed to start down...

BLASPHEMY AND HERESY! How could you even CONSIDER getting rid of the bioshrapnel effect? The chunky salsa result is the BEST one, one which always brought about gleeful maniacal laughter as I narrated its gruesome aftermath. Your new table should include, as possible side effects, in addition...

3 and 4 together: The bullrusher is able to bullrush the other player, but then risks being accidentally hit in the ensuing whirlwind. Because exploits like that just need to be double-edged.

Well, in SECOND edition, repeatedly doing this would cause a large internal explosion that would turn the drinker's body into bioshrapnel. In some ways, I think that second edition had it right there. Because anything that screws somebody over in a humorous way can't be wrong.

The consistent XP mechanic is not necessarily an upside, since as a result, it tends to force the next point, that classes MUST be balanced, because everyone earns the same XP to gain a level. You can't simply tack a higher XP cost onto a class which is more "overpowered", like wizards. The...

To get a more accurate gauge on character reactions to this, what you need to do is use props. When you mention that a monster's treasure is lodged inside of a turd, what you need to do is place a large, steaming turd on the table. Observe the reactions of the players. If you, personally, cannot...

Wow. They're almost, but not entirely, completely unlike each other. Gee, how many ways do you think you can make a nasty critter with big teeth's head look, anyway? Of course they all look the same! They're big, nasty critters with huge jaws full of sharp, pointy teeth! And when it's trying to...

I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it. They had the Phlogiston and all that. That was, in the era of the ancient Greeks, contemporary scientific technobabble. The entire combustion-as-phlogiston theory was only replaced by the concept of oxidation within the past few hundred years. If you ask the...

Here's a vote for "killing people and taking their stuff". I like all the other stuff, but in the end, it all comes down to the ends of taking people's stuff. Part of the reason you're seeing "killing people and taking their stuff" doing so badly is that with so many other inclusive choices that...

Artworks don't really have any inherent value to them: They're worth however much a PC can manage to peddle it for, which is, in and of itself, an adventure. You can make up completely arbitrary figures, and they're valid even if they're absurd. People have made millions off artwork which, I...

With large quantities of the proper material components, you might not even need magic to produce the effect you want.

I think I remember starting that debate, heh. The joys of relative motion with AoOs. Floating lightly to the ground is a rather gentle, controlled, and smooth manner. Plummetting to the ground under the influence of gravity is not. Then again, speaking from experience, if somebody plummets out...

Lovely. Tumbling, acrobat mounts. What's the Ride Check DC for staying *ON* a tumbling, acrobatic mount?

That's generously assuming that wizards are nice people concerned about the economic well-being of the populace. Given that the dominant race of most worlds, humans, are neutral, that suggests that "good" concerns like this are probably a minority view, and I doubt a powerful figure like a level...

I don't think advising the parties in question will help anymore. This thread became archaelogical over a year ago, and the actual parties involved have long since moved on. The dragon's been dead for over a year now.