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The problem with female minotaurs as monsters is that cows, in general, are not scary. Bulls are fine, since they have the horns and all, but cows? You'll end up with adventures such as The Night of Udder Terror and Vanished with Dairy a Trace. As a race, gender inclusiveness is fine, but if...

I say desert. If I want dragon-ish encounters at sea, I'll use a sea serpent. Blue in the desert makes more sense is more appealing than brown to me because I want regal predatory dragons(diving down from the clear blue desert sky), not sneaky lurker dragons(hiding in the sand in wait). I can...

As long as they know how to love I know they'll stay alive...

Although I don't have a problem with the system as is, here's how one could possibly alter it to allow for more variety of resources. Divide combat abilities into three categories: maneuvers, tricks and stunts(feats would fit better, but alas, that's already taken). All three use CS dice...

Well, if you wanted to keep things fairly close to the AD&D chest, Castles & Crusades would provide a cleaner system that wouldn't require much -if any- conversion. On the opposite end of the spectrum, FATE's aspects and fate points would be fantastic for portraying the idea that belief is...

Personally, I could wish for the Nosferatu variant in the 2E Van Richten guide to become the standard. Check out this innovation: it drains CON by sucking your blood. And yeah, I can't wait to actually be able to buy 1st hand 1E & 2E Realms stuff. All my old books got stolen years ago when I...

Having read a bit of the discussion(that didn't devolve into pedantic rules corrections that had nothing at all to do with the thesis of this discussion) as well as similar discussions elsewhere, and in part due to having a new perspective after a good night's sleep, I'd like to revise my stance...

Of course, now that I think of it, there's a much more straightforward solution to the problem of people minmaxing... Let them create their characters, design the adventure to repeatedly attack them in their lowest stats, and after they die, end the session with, "Now repeat after me: there is...

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Honestly? I'd rather that bonus come from a combination of class features and player decisions made during play than a single roll/choice that was made at character creation.

That depends on how prevalent modifiers are in the game. If it's easy to stack up +5 or more to adjust your roll, then sure, 10% extra is only 10%. But if straight additive bonuses are rare(and it sure seems like WotC wants them to be in 5E), then even a +1 is beneficial. What isn't...

Oh, I'm not advocating a direct return to 2E or anything. Where d20 was all power treadmills and bland sameness(and I'm not qualified to say what 4E was or wasn't), 2E was often wildly inconsistent, though there was an odd logic to many of the decisions made. I notice you did not mention the...

Why would you use attack rolls for arm wrestling? No attack is necessary; just do a contested strength check(and suddenly there is a difference, even in the 7-14 range). My point is that if you take away the importance of an ability score in relation to class features, you take away the drive...

First point: I'm not talking about stat generation itself, I'm talking about the bonuses. I don't want to force "the one true ability generation method" on anyone. The bonuses are most certainly not distributed on a curve in WotC's math. Second point: the difference is in ability checks...

I posted this on the WotC forums, but I thought I'd put it here too and see what sort of reaction it gets from different communities. My biggest complaint about the playtest so far is the ability score bonuses. I can't speak for the earlier editions, but in 2nd Edition, ability score bonuses...

I was thinking something similar, mostly because HP is so abstract and represents so many things that I can't even say that the rest-to-replenish feature doesn't make sense. I didn't play 4E, but I think it has a status called "bloodied" that would be a starting point. Or maybe something like...

Joining the military pretty much destroyed my gaming hobby ( I just separated). It was impossible to hold a group together, as there was always people deploying, going on trips, or moving. It got even worse when I moved to Japan, as now there aren't even many civilians that I can get to play...

Ah, L5R.... haven't played it in a while, but that's mostly because my gaming group kinda dissolved(military people moving to different bases) and I haven't been able to get others interested... and possibly also because I'm in Japan. It is one of my favorite systems, though.

I don't see this as a weakness. Merely a difference. I'll grant you that it isn't nearly as portable as what you described before, but I'm not always looking for a shallow game that you can quickly explain away with no knowledge of the setting(please note that I'm not referring to your gaming...

My guess is that by the time 5th edition comes around, the Forgotten Realms setting will suffer the fate that Greyhawk did in 3rd. The setting didn't fit with the developers' ideas of what a D&D setting should be, and now they have lost many of the fans that kept it popular so long. Hell, I...