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I don't have a problem with using Sunder on an enemy's weapon. No treasure is more important than any character's life.

Prestige Classes, by the RAW, are optional. DMs may legitimately choose to disallow all of them, or to cherry-pick which ones he'll allow at all--or just for PC use--as with all of the stuff outside the core rulebooks (or, quite frankly, in them). I appreciate having all of this material in...

If the dice says that you die, then you die. Grab the PHB and start making a new character.

I use the Chase rules from Spycraft.

Moreover, it's BS in the same way that the Halfling Outrider BAB progression error in the first printing of Sword & Fist was BS, and I expect it to be corrected later when the error becomes obvious in actual play results.

I run the game by the book. I never coddle. This is a game, just like any other, and that means that new players need to learn two things fast: (1) death is not the end; (2) you need to develop your skill as a player here as you would with any other form of game. Do that, and you'll do just...

My Exalted game goes quite well. It's going to start building now to the next crisis, which is likely to be a general war between two neighboring kingdoms, unless the PCs get into the mix and do something to prevent it.

That's easy to explain. They don't see the Realms as a toolkit, but a single-piece entity; the Star Wars community has the same problem, as does any property with a strong following and an equally strong canon. It's also the problem that historical gaming must deal with.

I want to run something truly epic, where the PCs actions result in a total transfomation of the world and its people for the better- something so radical that it signals the turn of the age. It's not been done well, or often, and I think it's got something to do with both the culture of the...

*ahem* Spycraft/Stargate SG-1 uses Action Dice, not Action Points. AD work under a different mechanic, refresh at a different rate, and relate differently to Character Level and class abilities than APs do. This is a distinction with a big difference.

You should've order the cleric to take up the mission. A casual player expects to be led by the nose, regardless of what character he's playing, because he's not there to do anything but hang out and play the game. He's a casual player precisely because he doesn't want to invest more into the...

Orcs, Gnolls, and the golbinoid races usually do the trick for me.

By default, I disallow the option to play an evil character. A player has to demonstrate to my satisfaction that he possesses the maturity and knowledge necessary to both play the character properly and to do so in a manner that won't be destructive of the group's enjoyment. (For the same...

The wilderness isn't the game. The dungeon--the adventure site--is the game. Gamers skip over the wilderness because otherwise you're wasting a great deal of time travelling to and from the dungeon, time that most gamers rightly resent wasting because time is a valuable commodity- too valuable...

This assumes that the conditions that existed when WotC assimiliated TSR and revived D&D remain in place. Company policy isn't necessarily reflective of the reality of the business environment, as there can be a lag time between changes in the environment and changes in policy to adjust to the...

Nisarg: What reason, and evidence, do you have to believe that WOTC remains incapable of supporting two settings at the level established by the Realms?

That's correct. Libris Mortis has a few updated PrCs from Tome & Blood as well as Defenders of the Faith. Similiarly, Races of Stone has updated versions of PrCs previously seen only in long-out-of-print issues of Dragon Magazine.

Lawful Good Human Paladin

The SW penalty to Defense also doesn't apply to prestige classes, so this variant in all ways works as the XP penalty does in D&D.

I like the Class Acts articles. While every issue won't be 100% useful, there is usually one or two that are useful. Furthermore, the diversity of opinion in the D&D hobby community is such that what I find useful isn't a universal opinion; what I dismiss will be useful to another hobbyist...