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Wow, these are the exact opposite of what I consider "good items". Badge of the Berserker makes basically no sense ("in my berserk fury I defend myself flawlessly while charging blindly about!") and the other ones are just, "Here, have some extra damage". Things like Iron Armbands of Power in...

Yeah, I agree with the others here. If the abjurer himself is not getting hit, there's no real reason to give him defender-level hitpoints. He's ranged, he's going to hide away at the back of the party. Either give him a use for those extra hitpoints or take them away - don't just give him 6 HP...

This kinda reminds me of when rogues couldn't backstab vampires and the like. It might "make sense" from a "fantasy realism" point of view, but it's pretty lame when your main bit of combat utility is taken away from you. (although whoever thought making vampires - you know, the guys who are...

They're also one of the few classes I feel okay about running without making power cards for - just a couple of pebbles or coins to track Power Strike usage and you're pretty much good to go.

Eberron is a 3rd ed setting and has pretty much all of what you said and more. I think 4th ed actually moves away from magic affecting the world outside of combat. You can't just cast fly or teleport in six seconds, or replace an entire countries economy with creation magic any more. Heck, I...

I know nothing. What's the big problem with the binder?

Descent is great if you want to play a one-shot RPG, because you effectively go from level 1 to level 20 over the course of one session. It has some drawbacks though: 1) You have to set up the entire board before the adventure - I much prefer games where you set up as you go along. 2) Some of...

Big fan of the slayer. Very simple class, but still effective. This makes it excellent for players who: A) Like fast turns B) Just want to contribute without having to get all rulesy about it C) Are only playing for one session as a "guest star" For those kinds of players, the slayer is fantastic.

Oh, post this. I'd love to use it in the game I'm playing. (as the old DM I'm kinda the rules lawyer for people and help them choose feats and stuff)

I just wrapped up my normal-4e game (at level 30 - the fighter became Queen Arthur, the assassin became God of Death, all that jazz) in which I was DMing, and started playing in a game that uses Essentials. We didn't intend for all the characters to be Essentials characters, either, it just...

I don't really like your poll much. I reckon you should sell your books since they're not being used and are just taking up space, but I don't like the edition war undertones.

I just finished a campaign from level 1 to level 30. The characters were a fighter, a two-weapon ranger, an assassin, and a sorcerer. You don't need a leader at all - just bring enough healing items and you'll be fine.

Why do you suppose this is?

I must say, I've loved the feel of every character I've seen made using the Essentials books. They seem to play a lot faster than the original classes, and often have nice little refinements to powers that make you think, "Why didn't they do it that way in the first place?". Mostly, though, I...

Ridiculous inflation of numbers at epic level. A typical attack bonus of one of my players (level 25, by the way) is +30. Some monsters I was running have 40 AC. It suddenly struck me - "Why am I bothering to have these enormous numbers? Why don't I just knock 30 off all defenses and have the...

You shouldn't do this. Nobody said it was "the most important", that's just a strawman. I said it would be nice to dump the sacred cow and make the game simpler for new players to understand, as part of a new edition of other changes.

I hope if they make a 5e, they get rid of enhancement bonuses altogether, and get away from the assumption that everyone has magic everything when they design monsters. In order to give people that feeling of getting more powerful magic items, they should then make different levels of magic...

Yeah, one of the things the D20 system kinda fails at is providing people "certainty" as regards their skills and stats. When your guy at first level has +12 to stealth because he's as dexterous as you could make him, has trained in the skill AND spent a feat to focus in it and another guy has...

I don't use point buy. I use standard array. So easy, quick, and balanced. I disagree with your assumption that rolling dice to determine your stats was EVER a valid means of generating characters. Heck, my group were house-ruling that out back in second ed! Generating ability scores with dice...

The current way of describing stats IS harmful to the game. I DM for a bunch of new players, and while, "Your modifier is your stat minus ten halved rounded down" might seem harmless nostalgia to you, it makes no sense to them at all. This sacred cow needs to die. I'm not saying it's a huge...