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Well you must have some interest. After all, you stopped to post in an OotS thread. Been following the plot summaries on wikipedia?

But don't you still run into the issue on the dying/not dying axis? Let's take this to the simplest possible position. A PC is fighting a goblin. The goblin hits him with a shortsword, and the PC drops below zero hitpoints. A couple of rounds go by, and the unlucky PC fails two death saving...

I think Roy's theory is correct. The Oracle can know anything but doesn't know everything. That is to say, if the Oracle wants to know something, he has to specifically use his prophecy power to find out the answer to his question. "When is the next time that I will die?" is probably a...

A clever player could make a strength-based cleric that uses only powers with the weapon keyword and thus avoid using the holy symbol implement.

That idea is/was very much up for debate. My view is that experience points are a metagame conceit for tracking how fast player characters increase in ability. Even the xp awards in the DMG are only suggested awards. A DM is free to halve them, double them, or just inform the players that...

I don't believe we've ever caught the Oracle in a mistake. I think Belkar's statement takes a hatchet to the back of the skull of the issue and buries it in a shallow grave. Now is it possible that we forgot to check the heartbeat of the issue before we buried it and that it somehow survived...

So this is a post about the latest session of the Age of Worms campaign I am playing in. Read no further those who are still trying to avoid AoW spoilers. . . . . Whoa! Last Friday the DM called the Library "the most dangerous area you guys have been in yet", and he wasn't talking jive...

Fourth edition puts an entirely different dynamic on this question. For one thing, a much greater percentage of the population may be able to cast Rituals than are "wizards" (or clerics) in the class sense. For another, wizards have a much smaller supply of big killing spells per battle, and...

That's not what they're asking for, though. They players aren't asking for an always-on portal that they can teleport to without any additional cost or ritual. They're asking for a permanent circle that can be used as the target of a teleportation ritual. They'd still have to perform the...

You don't want to get into a throat slitting contest with a rogue. That never ends well.

Of course if a skill challenge is so easy as to not be worth a milestone, the DM should probably be asking himself why he's bothering to play it out as a challenge in the first place. Just allow the PCs to roleplay/narrate their way to success and move on.

If Roy had been dead for 150 strips and we hadn't seen him in that time, I would agree with you. The fact that we've checked in with Roy in the afterlife more than once would strongly suggest that his story isn't over.

My view is, challenge the players. The abilities of the character are the tools that the players use to meet the challenge. I would never, ever tell a player, "Your PC isn't smart enough to come up with that plan." If they are using their character's abilities to meet the challenge, then...

With ever strip, the 'HUMOR' tag seems less and less appropriate. I'd like to see less angst and more fun.

There are some situations out there, such as some of the barbarian powers, where it is to a PC's advantage to be bloodied. Given the nature of a hitpoints, can a PC just declare they are voluntarily losing their "avoid damage" mojo and immediately lower their hitpoints to the bloodied value...

In D&D-land, all things are possible but not necessarily probable. I am sure that in-game, many creatures powerful and wise ask the questions you list above. Mechanically speaking, whatever he has done to himself or had done to him means that he gets treated as an elemental for purposes of...

Hmmm, it seems readers are buying what Elan is selling. Me, I suspect him of deliberately playing dumb because it was the safest way out of the conversation. He knows that V will buy it, and this way he doesn't have to either back down or force a confrontation.

A solo? Nah, Strahd should be backed up by a bunch of vampire spawn, some wolves he's called, and a horde of mindless undead. He's a former general; he ought to come to battle at the head of an army.

If you are at negative hitpoints and out of healing surges, a healing effect that would otherwise require you to spend a surge will bring you to 1 hitpoint. This means that a downed character can always benefit from having a healing potion poured down their throat, even if they are all out of...

I agree that the source of divine power can be left mysterious. If certain rituals are performed and rite done and everybody believes really hard, a person becomes able to channel 'divine' power. There's no moral judgement involved. Sometimes newly invested clerics are secretly corrupt or...