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I think that D&D's combat system, as in previous editions, is intentionally abstract, and anyone who wants to apply realism to the mechanics is ultimately going to get frustrated. I think what's more important is this: it is a robust conflict-resolution system with a core mechanic that has...

High five! Stick to your guns, brother--I love it too!

I prevent the situation from occurring by keeping my character sheet and notes in a Word document on my PC, which I also email to my DM each time I significantly update the character. If I'm at someone else's house and I don't have my sheet, I log into my email account, download, and print...

I used to like these big complicated character sheets that used a ton of ink, but now I enjoy just using a Word document with my character laid out in the DMG II stat block format and paired with an image of my PC. Simple, clean, elegant.

I play a hill dwarf barbarian 1/fighter 11 who is specialized in the falchion. Unless his opponent has an unusually high AC, he power attacks, doing 27 points of damage per attack on average. He crits about 30% of the time (falchion + Improved Critical) for an average of 54 damage per crit when...

Ah, but who decides? And where do they draw the line? While gross negligence should be addressed, and the human population is growing exponentially (the doubling time for the world's population is roughly 12 years--ponder that for a moment), I would make the argument that suffering is part of...

IME 5-foot steps are mostly used by melee combatants to set up or take advantage of flanking situations, or to remove oneself from being flanked by opponents without provoking AoOs. If a DM removes 5-foot steps, he might as well remove AoOs as well.

Evokers are usually well served to consider giving up any of the following three schools: Enchantment, Illusion, and Necromancy. The other choices are too painful to lose: Abjuration (the most powerful defensive spells), Conjuration (teleports and the life-saving dimension door), Divination...

I think that removing the 5-foot step will greatly increase the value of three feats--Combat Casting, Skill Focus (Concentration), and Still Spell. If, as a wizard, I am not allowed to make a 5-foot adjustment to cast a spell unhindered, I'm going to be damned sure that I can channel that spell...

These no longer stack in 3.5E. You have to do one or the other. For a Power Attacking, 2-handed weapon wielding fighter, I'd go with Great Cleave.

Guilty. I've been playing 3E since 2000 and I'd completely forgotten about the divine focus thing until I saw it mentioned in this thread. Whoops. Sometimes, the amount of data that one must remember to DM 3rd edition is overwhelming. :\

Me either. I think they're cool.

I disagree. The 1E bard was part warrior, part magic-user, part druid, and part thief. The 3E version of the bard is in no way part warrior. My adjustments brings a bit of parity to the role as envisioned in 1E (not to mention historically).

The bard doesn't need help with "bardness." He needs help staying alive in combat if he's going to do anything but hang back and sing.

I feel like there's veiled criticism buried in your comments, as though it bugs you that my interpretation of things differs from yours. Anyway, I'm done here--I got the information I needed, and EB's comments were insightful as always. Thanks gang!

Fortunately, my players and I are on the same page with regard to what it means to be humble from a Christian perspective. I'm certainly incoporating EB's comments, though. I'd say that it merely shows that we are complete strangers posting anonymously on an internet messageboard, with no shared...

I would not have allowed it, because players don't get to keep secrets from the DM regarding what their characters are up to. The DM gets to know. If he doesn't know about it, it didn't happen.

Quoted for truth. ;)

I think Durkon knows something that the others don't. He keeps saying "No, wait, don't...!" Kinda out of character. Why he hasn't shared that information...no clue.