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The Bodak's problem is that it's a one-trick pony, and its one trick is fairly reviled among players. If the PCs aren't susceptible to its gaze, they can easily cut it to ribbons like a ton of lard. It's just not particularly well-designed monster, in my opinion. It'd be interesting to see how...

I think it's beside the point if the DMs aren't up to the task. I'd rather we didn't have a game that had to bend over backwards to cater to the lowest common denominator. The bar might be high, but no matter where we put it, there always will be bad DMs and bad players. So why not put it high...

I've a fondness for that most horrible, most ruthless, most thoughtless villainous race of them all: humans. After all, a demon can be expected to do horrible things. A beholder can slaughter dozens of men without blinking an eye. A construct would dismember you of ordered to. But a human being...

Indeed. The Core Rulebook is supposed to cater to everyone. Not you, not me, not Bob down the street. EVERYONE. In large, friendly letters. I'm surprised they didn't write "DON'T PANIC" on the inside cover of the DMG. It'd be helpful advice for every starter-up in the path to DM-ness.

This all sounds perfectly reasonable. Things like basilisks, dragons, demons, high-level wizards and other monsters don't exist in a vacuum. They create ripples, if you will, in the world around them. The PCs should be able to read these "ripples" to learn something of the creature they're...

Hardly surprising, considering the kind of stock of posters we get here these days. Not like the ones we had back in the AD&D days, when every race, class, alignment and hair color had their own XP tables, class caps and secret hand wriggles and we liked it. Today's gamer's don't even know what...

That's either Nanny Ogg or someone's crazy uncle in drag...

D&D doesn't really evolve. That'd entail an actual direction, development of new features and atrophy of old ones. D&D endures, unchanging in many basic respects. I see 4e as just another minor revision, built from the same flawed premise as 3.5 was.

You really think someone would mistake me for your sockpuppet when I've been a member here several months longer than you (slightly over five years in total)?

What they should do is chuck everything from 3.5, 3.0 and previous editions. Their process of building each edition atop the previous ones has resulted in 3.5 being the Michael Jackson of RPGs, desperately improving itself to ward off obsolescence but attaining only a kind of perverse lichlike...

Layer #22: The Layer of Lost Socks, home to zillions of sock-stealing imps and their booty... which is mountains upon mountains of used, odd socks.

No, they simply have to design a melee based class from the ground up and integrate it into the core material.

Other - Fighters.

My vote was for "Combat boost", but what I wanted to vote was "To be put out of its misery." Fighters have been a lame duck for years, and it's unrealistic to assume WOTC will make them less so in the near future.

I think the night hags buy souls and turn them into larvae, or somesuch thing. So there is an economy for them.

Well, there's other kinds of "armor penetration" you could go for. Bullets could halve natural armor, give a -3 to your armor and shield bonuses to AC, or what have you.

That's actually not a bad point.

That's a problem with the spell and/or the magic system, really. Major creation, fabricate, you name it. It's pretty much just falling apart at the seams.

Speaking of guns, I wanted to make a character wielding a smokepowder pistol, but it occurred to me that in order to have a weapon of any kind of combat potential, I'd need to stuff tens of thousands of gps worth of thaumaturgy into that one handgun, at which point I'm already wielding a magic...

I think the opposite list would have been easier. It basically includes Mercane, Deities and Proxies.