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I think it is totally unreasonable to limit a player to one character. My players regularly have multiple characters and they switch between them when they want to, subject to story constraints. Essentially the entire adventuring group is far larger than what is present in any given session. It...

Agreed on all counts here. A good point. Homogeneity is boring. Changing the entire cosmology because of stuff specific to the Realms was also a mistake. The changes themselves were pretty abysmal. I found myself annoyed by the Time of Troubles. Even then it seemed so forced and artificial...

I was being flippant. Zombie squirrels does sound interesting though. Ugh, you lost me. I hate the new BSG. Wipe 'em all. The original is the way to go. :) Installing Windows is far more immoral than wiping a droid. Agreed that group character generation can be a good thing.

Wrong. As I said before, 1 and 3a were the usages I intended, which have absolutely nothing to do with randomness and everything to do with individual preference, convenience, and discretion. Even your choice (and it isn't your usage we are talking about, is it?) "seemingly at random" isn't...

I'd play in that game. Pretty sure I saw one of those in the latest Star Wars movie, masquerading as a Storm Trooper.

Haha, funny. I guess you didn't bother looking it up. Arbitrary is not random. From Merriam Webster (1 and 3a are particularly relevant): 1 : depending on individual discretion (as of a judge) and not fixed by law <the manner of punishment is arbitrary> 2 a : not restrained or limited in...

Those cases certainly sound like disruptive players. A disruptive character can be many things, but if played with conscientous players, it absolutely can be fun for the entire party. It's probably much easier if you have an experienced tight-knit group of players, but I've seen it done...

Agreed. While heroes are a major trope of D&D, anti-heroes can be every bit as interesting.

That's not true at all. I've DM'ed plenty of games with characters who had mismatched or inferior ability scores. Intelligent playing goes a long way, especially when the DM is not coddling players by constantly balancing all their encounters. It's not what you have, it's how you use it.

You clearly do not. Prove it.

There's an even wider gulf between disruptive characters and disruptive players. The former can be made to work, the latter can't.

I like characters like that! In some games I've run, we roll players up using the original 1st Ed. AD&D method: 3d6, applied in order. No wimpy point-buy or choosing your ability scores. You don't pick your genes! Characters like that tend to be memorable, vs. the generic "yet another...

Since those in Kara-Tur are not subject to the Wall, apparently all you have to do is travel East. Problem solved. :)

I know precisely what arbitrary means. Just because you don't agree, doesn't mean I don't understand the word. Perhaps it is you who doesn't understand it.

Naturally. However I provided as much reasoned argument in my replies as he did in his post, i.e. none. It was especially apt as his post was little more than telling me what my intentions were. Something I would know far better than him.

From the TSR 1st Edition module CB1: Conan Unchained! Conan! Fighter: 13 Thief: 7 Hit Points: 100 Luck Points: 12 Strength: 18 (90) Intelligence: 14 Wisdom: 10 Dexterity: 18 Constitution: 18 Charisma: 17 Weapon Proficiencies: sword (all types), bow (all types), axe (all types), club, mace...

You are wrong. Opportunity attacks allow you to take melee attack actions outside your turn. This is despite the rules for actions in combat saying you take actions on your turn, exactly like the rules in the vampiric touch spell description states. You are wrong again. Wrong yet again...

I think the assumption was the spell was already cast and this is a subsequent round where the caster is merely maintaining concentration. If he held an action to cast the spell, he wouldn't be able to grapple in the same turn...that's two actions.

Vampiric touch doesn't have you specify a hand. There's no reason the caster can't switch which hand he uses to drain each round. The caster could not channel the power of vampiric drain through his hand while grappling with it any more than he could punch the target while grappling with it at...

No, that reply was directed at the OP as encouragement to let his decisions reach beyond the mere text of the rules. Yes, he said he hadn't found a solid ruling. My advice was that one isn't needed. Sure it wasn't directly what he asked for, but often people ask questions from a certain...