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Let's see if you guys can settle a quick disagreement between GlassJaw and myself: 1) Should the bard have the full spellcasting progression or a one-half spellcasting progression? 2) Based on your decision regarding the above point, do you consider it merely reinforcing the class as the bard...

Murder? I love it when folks try to apply modern, civilized mores (and legal constructs) to D&D. A closer analogy would be the lawless frontier towns of the Wild West. Those with power set the rules. Life is cheap. Even so, the common folk will quickly get a feel for whether or not the PCs...

http://www.enworld.org/forum/bad-axe-games-hosted-forum/260720-trailblazer-pdf-release-discussion-questions-errata.html But it will be faster for me to recap: 1) Corrections and clarifications. 2) Added some more content from the SRD (dungeon and wilderness types, etc.) 3)...

I am very gratified (and I am sure I speak for Chris as well) that folks are finding it useful. Yes! Chris has finished Animals and Vermin, both of which served as a testbed for our design philosophy moving forward, and now the real work begins-- applying those practices to the bulk of the...

Oh, what the hell. I'll update the PDF today. No sense waiting on the print approval process, and I reckon folks would like to see the new interior.

Actually, it has a whiff of Jekyll and Hyde, or Banner and Hulk, except that the alter ego (or, rather, id) actually gets to hang around in physical form to watch the havoc. And maybe cast a few buffs on him.

It is not a misuse of Lanchester's to observe that doubling the number of combatants leads to a quadratic increase in power. That's actually "use." Unless of course you take steps to make the pet "asymmetrically insignificant;" as will happen to any meatbag that falls behind the leading edge...

The understanding of Lanchester's impact on 3e is frustratingly incomplete, but you know very well that if the "pet" (cohort, animal companion, or summoned creature) is robust enough to be at all meaningful in combat, by "squaring" it represents a significant increase in power. That doesn't...

My intent is that they will both go live at the same time.

Bit of a hiccup in that all the new content has increased the spine thickness to the point that we have to change the layout-- more pages means more glue on the binding, so we lost a bit of "gutter space." Yikes! It's not entirely new content-- much of it includes some SRD sections we decided...

Take the rules-as-written (no changes to any skills), give the Rogue a skill bonus in every single skill equal to his level +3, and he still under-performs. He can tumble, he can bluff, he can spot search and listen, find traps, charm the pants off the king, intimidate the ogre champion, climb...

Well done, all.

Only insofar as the rules provide details on how to avoid the negative consequences arising from such actions. The rules provide little guidance with respect to "stunting" as the term is generally understood-- that is, doing something crazy in combat to gain an advantage. In other words, given...

In RAW, the sorcerer does not get 2nd level spell until 4th level (the wizard got his at 3rd), 3rd level spells until 6th level (the wizard got his at 5th), etc. It means you can use a 5th level spell slot to cast a lower level spell. (Kind of a waste unless it's really important.) Correct...

When were they ever in the window?

We didn't go quite that far but we did, in fact, greatly reduce the utility of skills in combat-- while at the same time giving almost everyone more skill points and making it easier to contribute in interesting ways out-of-combat. No class gets fewer than 4 skill points per level, there are no...

I'm happy to answer your questions, though this should probably be asked in the Bad Axe Games forum. And I can't help but observe that you don't seem to have given Trailblazer a very careful read. I gather from your other posts that you're certainly capable of sorting these questions out so...

That presumes that out-of-combat play is a "serious" part of your game. If out-of-combat play isn't terribly common, terribly difficult, or terribly consequential, then you don't have a serious problem. Success or failure on a skill check, or even a battery of skill checks, is not even close...

Correct so far. Due primarily to legacy issues with backstabbing. In other words, the 1e "real world" considerations of backstabbing conflicted with the 3e design goals of backstabbing (rogue as damage dealer). They kept enough of the 1e restrictions that they crippled the 3e advances. Even...

I was probably misled by the fact that rogues have a straight damage dealing ability as their primary class feature.