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Wouldn't that make travel more strenuous than combat?

I don't think any version of D&D covers this rule well. In part because rules for horses are even more unrealistic than rules for people. This is to address the opening post, where using horses and mules were part of the scenario. I recall reading about a battle in Ancient China, about 1800...

What sort of DC are you talking about? Shouldn't the skill also get better with ranks? So I could picture a sliding scale. Perhaps a +1 bonus if you get a DC 15, +2 if you get a 25, etc. But is that worth a standard action? Fate has a Tactics skill that applies aspects to the battlefield (even...

Taking a baby adventuring is insane. By it's very nature adventures are filled with lethal surprises. That 1 hit point baby could die at any time. Growing up twice as quickly is still not enough. In 1 year it may have the capabilities of a 2 year old child, which still has no business being...

Steal an idea from Fate. The "Martial Artist" stunt isn't about being better at fighting. (There's numerous stunts for that.) It instead gives you the ability to analyze a fighting style. Maybe not a mechanical bonus, but "this opponent is likely to try to trip you" or "he's got a sword and a...

I ran a 4e session yesterday for the first time in six weeks due to summer scheduling problems. We had a "new" player (new to the group). He had previous run 5e, but was happy with 4e. Since he's also a DM, we might rotate with a 5e game run by him. (My group usually runs two or three games in...

In a level 4 Pathfinder "Oriental Adventures"-style game I'm a player in, the DM uses a random encounter generator. We have twice run into stegosauruses. We keep meaning to capture and tame one, but we're just too weak to do it without losses. I have only one real issue with random encounter...

Not as PCs. Too weak, too boring, not suited for adventuring.

I'm still running 4e, and we have a 4e and Pathfinder game that I'm in. There aren't many house rules. 4e works pretty well, but it did get bloated, ironically more often with stuff that makes characters weaker instead of stronger.

Only the 1e ranger. The ranger keeps moving away from Aragorn, and then moves back. I'd rather it moved away. Aragorn was a single, complex character. Sure he was a ranger, but there was a lot more to him too. He's a ranger/paladin/warlord with the Lost King background, and that's before he...

Unfortunately PCs are special. They seem to gain more XP than NPCs, and both can gain XP from quests, rather than just killing things. Of course, killing things tends to give more XP than quests, so being violent tends to give better skills. It does seem to depend on the DM... err, gods of the...

How difficult do you want to make it for the PCs to be actual murder hobos? I think any setting with large rural estates will work. In such settings, the forces of law and order are not powerful enough to stop the PCs (unless really riled) while there's enough victims. It's actually hard to...

No. I've never liked "klepto rogues" anyway. I had bad experiences watching rogue players who thought they "must" steal in 2e. In d20 Modern, the same skill that lets you steal stuff also lets you hide weapons. In the modern world, it's not a good idea to walk around with obvious pistols, so...

I've got loads of them. I'm not a fly by the seat of the pants DM, and IME most plot hooks only excite one or two players (each). At minimum I need to introduce plot hooks before the campaign actually starts, otherwise the PCs have no reason to hang out together.

Terrible. AD&D 2nd Edition didn't make balance a key concern. It's pretty hard to do that when you have die-rolled stats. But 2e did have some balancing tools. For instance, wizards had very few spells at 1st-level, but at the same time those spells (eg Sleep) were really strong, because...

I think alignment and rules should not intersect, or at least keep the amount of rules shenanigans to a minimum. I don't like the idea of a holy discount. Rather, use RP. The LG church will sell certain items cheaper to people they believe are lawful good (and possibly have to prove they are...

Why hasn't the DM banned that incredibly broken PrC yet?

Archers could fire really fast back in the day, but they didn't have to do a lot of aiming. If you're shooting at a mass of horsemen, just "aim" up so your arrow arcs down and uses gravity to spike a knight or horse. Does it matter if you hit the knight next to the one you were "aiming" at? The...

Their prices are in a Dragon Magazine, and I believe Mordenkainen's Magnificent Emporium. Their prices varied depending on level and skillset, which means if you're statting these guys up, you have to put work into h ow much they cost. Beware: enemies that use AoE attacks will slaughter minions...

It's probably based on real experience. From my own experience, players build characters independently. I insist that character personalities are built with input, but mechanical cooperation boils down to splitting roles... and that's it. Unfortunately like every previous edition of D&D, 4e got...