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Not to mention e-readers like the Nook and the Kindle can't really do animated anyway. This is my major beef with shopping digitally. I consume most of my books digitally now, but I tend to shop physically at the bookstore, figure out what I want, and then go home and purchase it on my Nook or...

Not to mention e-readers like the Nook and the Kindle can't really do animated anyway. This is my major beef with shopping digitally. I consume most of my books digitally now, but I tend to shop physically at the bookstore, figure out what I want, and then go home and purchase it on my Nook or...

For me? Yes. Me neither. But my hit point total is probably less than it was 5 years ago, and definitely way less than it was 15 years ago. I think each year that I live under my max HP, my max HP drops.

You're right. I was thinking of Basic when I said that. This is exactly my point. This makes the basic 1st Level PC start off so much more powerful than the regular Joe that it completely obviates an entire playstyle (that of average Joe who becomes a hero - like Bilbo Baggins or any number of...

4 x as much isn't 28 times as much, as in 4E, so yes I stand by my point that in OD&D, BD&D, and AD&D, the difference between a regular 0th level farmer and 1st level PC is minimal, especially when a 0th level farmer legitimately has the ability to kill a 1st level PC. Not at first level they...

Thanks. I'll have to look that one up to read about it. That sort of makes sense, really. I know falling damage is the one standout that I think everyone looks at askance. I think my perspective comes from the fact that really the first system I DMed was 2E (although I played 1E and BD&D) and...

Why? Why wouldn't the smart guy know where to look intuitively and do as well (or better) finding traps than the guy who just has good eyesight? If anything, I'd argue that looking for traps should use both stats in some fashion. Knowing where to look is just as important as being able to see...

The worry there is that we do the 2E thing. That is, present a ton of options, and then just assume everyone uses all of them when further supplements come out. So long as they can present each further supplement as a standalone module that doesn't require "all the modules!" to use, there...

I don't see why you couldn't just use Intelligence for the rogue to find traps. Search was based on Int in 3E and Spot on Wis. I think that breakdown sort of makes sense to me.

A friend and I are currently working (off and on) on a fantasy Earth set in 1454, but we're trying to introduce the fantasy elements at a very low level somewhere around 500 AD, sort of as an explanation for the "Dark Ages." It's going to be fairly low-magic and pretty grim/gritty, but all the...

Yeah, because I narrate some misses as being deflected off of armor or shields (like if it hits touch AC but not Armor) and generally a complete miss that doesn't even come close misses even the Touch AC.

Yeah, and when you hit, you bypass the armor, correct? It means that even with the armor on, you still make contact with the person under the armor. Whether it's something like hitting at a joint, breaking through a link in the mail, stabbing through the leather or padding, etc. I'm not seeing...

Caveat - most of my "travel" was courtesy of the USS Cape St. George (from Oct 2001 - Dec 2004), but not all of it. Marmaris Turkey stood out as one of my favorite places to visit. Gdynia Poland and Kiel Germany were fun and entertaining (particularly Kiel during Kiel Week). Malta was...

And, I think, the bonus for adv/dis is that it scales with level better than a flat +/- modifier.

Well, a dodge that didn't quite get completely out of the way, or experience in combat giving the fighter the presence of mind to turn sideways to battle rather than face forward. I don't see it as that. AC is the threshold it takes to actually make physical contact, not to turn a serious blow...

I wasn't just using his monster level to equate class levels. I was looking at his hit points AC, elite array, and his attacks and damage. He's clearly way better than a 1st level fighter in 4E, so even if he's not the equivalent of a third level, he's still implicitly better than 1st, which is...

The differences between a 0th level commoner and a 1st level fighter or rogue or cleric was fairly minimal. You're comparing apples and oranges. By definition, a trained town guard is not ordinary, especially not one that has an elite array and in 3E would have 3 class levels. Of course a level...

Here is 3E's definition of hit points, and it's the one I like the best: Hit points mean two things in the game world: the ability to take physical punishment and keep going, and the ability to turn a serious blow into a less serious one. I've italicized the important part. The hit is still a...

It is different in the healing side of the equation. HP = meat doesn't allow for inspirational healing. Those types of non-magical healing are usually represented by temporary hit points, which disappear after a time, indicating their momentary inspiration effects rather than a permanent healing...

I still have problems with that one myself. I'm sort of glad I didn't adhere to that because I didn't like "A Game of Thrones" for the first 300 pages or so, but I enjoyed the rest of the book enough to read "A Clash of Kings." I'm not almost done "A Storm of Swords," but I think if I had...