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Based on some good suggestions, I've updated my document containing the thousand pre-generated Basic characters to add several indices. You could find a random character who is: * a dwarf * a hill dwarf * a hill dwarf fighter * a hill dwarf fighter specializing in Great Weapon …and so forth...

Someone asked me what the most common stat array from rolling best-3-of-4d6 is; turns out it is: 15,14,13,12,11,10. Which is 30 points under the standard point buy. Cheers, Roger

Who rolls up a thousand Basic characters? This guy. Go ahead, take a look. Could be used for: - Actual pre-gens: get your players off to a quick start by rolling d1000 for a character. They'll want to roll low. - Hirelings and assorted NPCs: not a bad place to start if the party wants to...

I'm not entirely sure how this rule from Backgrounds is supposed to be applied: "If a character would gain the same proficiency from two different sources, he or she can choose a different proficiency of the same kind (skill or tool) instead." The most charitable reading would seem to imply...

Back in my day, 10' of reach was worth something. What exactly its worth is, well, that remains a matter of some debate. Cheers, Roger

This is a little obscure, but consider this section from Backgrounds and Skills: If your character already has training in a skill and gains training in that skill again (for example, a skill granted by both the character’s class and background), you instead choose a different skill in which...

Yeah, I could go for that. Thanks for the comments, everyone. Gives me some things to chew over. Cheers, Roger

Thinking about taking a more radical approach to healing: No one gets to heal anything while in-combat. Out of combat, sure, go nuts, stuff your guts back in. Haven't playtested this one yet though. So there might be some horrible problem with it that I just haven't thought of yet...

Only if the average Str-10 guy stops getting to carry around a hundred pounds on his back all day and night without any problem. Cheers, Roger

Any love for 'must be trained' usages? I was thinking it might be a good generalized requirement for generalized toolkits -- thieves' tools and healers' kits being the obvious ones, but I think it could be extended. Cheers, Roger

I'll go with xag-ya and xeg-yi. They explode on contact! Cheers, Roger

Hmmm. I think I like this in theory, but I'm not sure how often it'll come up in practice. Let's see... Find and Remove Traps to assist in a Dex check to dodge a triggered trap, maybe, I can see coming up. Spot with Intelligence sort of gives us Search back. Survival with Constitution I can...

Sending in a mob of 40 giant centipedes might change your mind. Cheers, Roger

I sure did. I would not have guessed that the answer to "Hey can I remember which one of King Olbon's bastards led the Burun's Farm Rebellion in '28?" would be "Sure go ahead and roll Heraldic Lore" before reading the skill description. Cheers, Roger

Maybe also check out the various Potions of Giant Strength. Cheers, Roger

There's a couple of +1 shields in the Caves of Chaos, so I would say they're legit. Also he can dodge for +4 to AC, and stand behind 3/4 cover for +5 to AC. Cheers, Roger

Hmmm. I think it's mostly fine; there might be a few tweaks here and there between playtest and final production. Do we need them all? Probably not. Does it hurt anything to have a whole bunch defined? Not to my perception it doesn't. If I had a player who said "Alright look I know my guy...

I agree. Entirely. But, as far as I'm concerned, this thread is pretty much "Hey the PCs are doing something I don't approve of; how can I, the DM, make it so they don't?" It may well be that I've misunderstood the OP and that isn't actually the question he's trying to ask; I'd be happy to...

Only if they try to identify it using the method that we apparently really don't want them to use: trial-and-error. Absolutely every other solution at their disposal to identify the cursed ring leads to no Gotcha at all. I guess this could lead to the PCs deciding to never trust anyone again...

Exactly! If a DM wants to discourage a certain behaviour, all he has to do is provide some disincentive. If he wants to discourage the identification of items by trial-and-error, for some reason, all he has to do is throw in a cursed magical item. Cheers, Roger