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The ring is cursed. Cheers, Roger

Random spells known. Cheers, Roger

That sounds about right. The Viking siege of Paris lasted close to a whole year and the siege of Acre was closer to two years. Cheers, Roger

"Good luck, and don't let the gate hit your mule on the way out." Finally, those oh-so-pretty foreigners are leaving, with all their piles and piles of gold and weapons and crap. Think they can just march into our town and tell us how to protect our own families, eh? If we're lucky they'll...

I'll take the blame for that. All I really wanted to illustrate was that ambiguous words have been around in D&D a long, long time. And people complained about it for just as long. And pretty much everyone managed to deal with it just fine. Cheers, Roger

That's even more problematic! You jump out a window on the first floor of a building. Do you: A) Fall a couple inches and walk away, or: B) Fall a dozen feet and break your ankle? The people I know are pretty evenly split between the two options. Cheers, Roger

Conan the Barbarian still works for me. Cheers, Roger

That is seriously freaking me out now. It's like he's a warforged... made out of MEAT. Cheers, Roger

So I guess the other 'big news' is the shift away from a tactical 'Tactics Section' to more of a chatty fluffy "here's the monster in action" vignette. I find myself pretty neutral towards it. I never got much use out of the Tactics section anyway. I might get slightly more use out of the...

But even in 4E, a 20th level character might not be on the 20th level of the dungeon. Cheers, Roger

I imagine "to sound the stone" means to bang on it and hear that it's hollow; using "to sound" as a verb to refer to this sort of sounding is pretty strange, but D&D has often had a certain linguistic adventurousness. Cheers, Roger

Exodus 16:20 -- "Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left the mana until the morning, and the mana bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them." Cheers, Roger

However he's built, he'd better end up with the Pantsless feat. Cheers, Roger

There's got to be a better solution than overloading "level" a dozen times. But I guess we haven't found one in the last 30 years, so I'm not holding my breath. Cheers, Roger

I like that numerous monsters now have powers that recharge on a miss, but I'll admit I'm kinda surprised they're not just simply called "Reliable". Cheers, Roger

Icy Terrain: This'll make charging fairly strange. Cheers, Roger

It can lead to this sort of interesting exchange: "Okay, I Delay." "No, you can't." "What? I can't Delay?" "Nope. Not unless you just want to miss your turn entirely." Cheers, Roger

Well, sort of. The rot grubs can move in, hit the character, give him ongoing damage, and then move along to the next target. That first character is still taking ongoing damage as long as he's failing his saves. I'm not sure that's how I'd run rot grubs myself, but it seems legal. Cheers...

My go-to recommendation for this sort of thing is James V. West's The Pool (rtf). Cheers, Roger

Well, re-introduce, yeah. It's a nostalgia thing. Between rot grubs and green slime, characters were always flaming each other. Cheers, Roger