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With respect to the DM's wish to ban use of the character's warlock class ability on the fly, on this we agree. It sounded sloppy and potentially vindictive.

Can you elaborate? How would one not deal with class/rules/story elements? How did the DM in this case not deal with class/rules/story elements? I posit that DMs imposing such conditions deal with class/rules/story elements by treating the impacts to particular characters as acceptable in the...

Sure, and the very first line of the condensed, simplified definition describes clever as "intelligent and able to learn things quickly". And the first part of that definition? "Mentally quick and original; bright". I said: And there we have it, as demonstrated by Merriam-Webster and...

I've run (and played in) games where characters started with no equipment, or had everything taken from them; so have plenty of other people. Many others have run games in which healing/resting rules were tweaked for one reason or another (usually to make healing more difficult, I'd wager). Does...

You left out the part that comes before this: You realize Collins is published in Scotland, and was created by an English (as in England) editor, right? Here's a different one:

Wait, what? The definition of "clever" as "intelligent" is literally the very first definition given of the word in a standard American English dictionary.

How many short rests would you expect to get in a day? A short rest is an hour of relatively uninterrupted time.

This. Warlocks are balanced with few slots to use for spells, given all the other tools in their toolbox: cantrips, invocations, blade or familiar, etc. Playing 4e-style, with essentially free short rests, would significantly increase the warlock's capability. Spells are meant to provide a dash...

I don't think the OP said the DM was doing anything specifically to warlocks, including altering spell slots. It sounds as if the DM wants to run a grittier, more desperate game, which is appropriate for Ravenloft. That it affects the warlock (and I don't personally think it does to the extent...

Agreed. There are many great illustrations in the MM -- actually, I like the aboleth illustration all right, it's just that it looks like some aboleth creation rather than an actual aboleth.

A big part of the problem with Wick's article is his (re-)definition of the term "roleplaying". If a game has some method in its rules whereby one can create a customized in-game character, a role, to play, then it's a roleplaying game. (Cue several examples of RPGs where creating customized...

Agreed. If I'm pretending to be someone I'm not, thinking through imaginary situations under circumstances I will never experience, how am I not playing a role, whether or not I'm speaking in character, or making suboptimal decisions for character reasons, or whatever else encompasses...

I don't know, I've known a lot of D&D players/characters who were more interested in gold and authority than in noble deeds. Including most of the players I DMed in this adventure. I guess this is where I'm missing the problem. Where is the mystery? The identity of the murderer isn't in...

So? Let them (or one of them) become Bhaal's Chosen. The adventure explicitly addresses the possibility of the PCs going after all of the Big 3. Doesn't matter to Bhaal; he still gets what he wants. :devil:

Did you catch any of the Savage Tide adventure path at the end of Dungeon's print run? Aboleths played an important part in the middle of the AP; it was quite cool. In an Underdark campaign? Good luck. :p

If they won't be releasing setting sourcebooks, I want stories that serve as stealth intros to old campaign settings, i.e. adventure paths set in Kara-Tur and Zakhara, Sigil and the planes, maybe... wildspace? ;)

Keep in mind that your experience as a DM reading the adventure is completely different from that of a player. There's nothing that really ties the initial murder to any of the following events until the very end, so there's no reason for the players to think that the building crises are related...

Why would you want to lick a lich? Ick.

This. I played an evil character in an evil party for years; the longest-running campaign in which I've been involved, in fact. I was skeptical about the idea at first, having heard all the same warnings as everyone else: it'll end in chaos, everyone will backstab everyone else, etc. On the...

Picking up on this side issue (I won't even mention hid-- uh, that other thing!), this isn't really true. If you stopped buying 4e material early, you may have missed out on 4e Dark Sun, which was arguably a better fit for the setting than the 2e original. Plenty of world-specific rules...