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I got to be honest-- the shooting into melee thing doesn't quite sit right with me. Even if the rules state there is an absolute 0% chance that the projectile could hit me, someone firing arrows or magical bolts from behind me over my shoulder into a target less than 5' in front of me would...

I can see a few situations where it might be a good idea to advise a player or double-check with a player if the action they are taking is really an action they want to take. Particularly if you are in the role of the DM. There are times, particularly with new players, that a player of a...

What would be the benefit of using Dragonlance as a setting? I mean, most of the differences between it and Forgotten Realms/GreyHawk/Mystara are well... aside from things that seem different by shades just to be different without any of it really leading to any sort of unifying theme, concept...

Guess what? Your real life friends and family have been lying to you about various things since the day you were born. Some of those lies you realize are lies and accept, others you likely don't realize were lies until this day. The game world should be no different. Just because you have OOC...

You know, it is interesting how people have a general aversion to this being done via a social stat, but have 0 problem with this being done via a physical stat. A: "My character is an unstoppable juggernaut!!" B: "I make a grapple check" <A fails save> DM: You can't move and must make a check...

The Bard, Battlemaster Fighter, and Paladin all have different components that pretty much nullify any real objection to the Warlord. All the necessary mechanics and abilities already exist as part of the game, it would just be a matter of bringing those and only those components together into a...

Yeah-- that is just monumental garbage based on your own laughable ignorance. Mod Note: This is monumental rudeness. Unacceptable. Hobgoblin here won't be in the conversation for a little while. ~Umbran This craziness always comes up whenever someone wants to cite an ancient culture they...

For every 20 hobgoblins in a group there is a leader (sergeant) and 2 assistants. These hobgoblins will have 9 hit paints each. If 100 or more hobgoblins are encountered there will be the following additional figures with the group: a subchief (armor class 3, 16 hit points, and 1 + 2 damage...

The monster manual has never done a decent job of modeling non-PC race societies. There is a lot you need to consider. First, unlike as presented in the monster manual-- not every hobgoblin is going to be a standard soldier. Culturally it is likely that every one of them gets basic militia...

Remember that combat in the game is already far from the reality it is supposed to be entailing. People in a realistic setting would not move, stand perfectly still in a single spot, swing their weapon once and then wait for everyone else to do the same thing in turn before moving again...

I think you need to run the numbers. They are all worthlessly weak compared to any other class unless your combat lasts a long time, longer than it is really meant to last-- at least at any level except maybe 3-5. And of these three pretty bad options, the Bravura is massively better than the...

Not at all. One put together a random group of ability scores that do not align with what you want to do and used a class in a manner it wasn't remotely designed to be used, in fact quite the opposite of how it is supposed to be used, pretty much guaranteeing that the character was functionally...

Oh, that is just fine if your DM decides to never challenge you with anything more than 1/3rd your ECL and fudge the dice constantly to make your broken, hopelessly screwed character look competent. Unfortunately, in most games DMs tend to use your level to determine the power of the challenges...

Yeaaahh.... You seem alarmingly ignorant of something very basic. People might possibly get used to it if it wasn't so off-putting that it actually remained in the game. Instead, it was wholly torn out of the game as literally the only base class of any edition that didn't make it in. The...

No, I don't at all think you are right. The problem are that 1) It implies a specific position of power that certainly has not been earned at low levels. 2) It really fails to convey what the class is supposed to do. Cleric is just another word for Priest, you could call it a Priest and it...

All shields, and all armor for that matter, absorbs impact. What that means is that when something hits it, the force of that blow doesn't transfer over to the other side. But if it is moving, it is still a metal object that makes impact itself-- that impact just won't be felt by someone on the...

Did you even think for ten seconds what you even wrote there? Put another way "being a selfish, egocentric, cut-throat, greedy, lying, cheat bastard generally should line up with being altruistic in the pie-in-the-sky idealistic views of some ancient thinkers who never actually saw the system in...

It was an attempt to make spears as good as martial weapons since all classes, as far as I understand it, get proficiency in all simple weapons anyway. Anyway, I advise that people not use this one. I have come up with a better balanced version here...

Granted, but adventures that actually had a story, actually had an end goal at all tended t finish with a planned encounter with something that was stronger than anything previously-- even if it did have helpers, it was still at least a level or a few levels higher than anything else the party...

Are you really quibbling about the term "early" to dismiss 1E D&D as not being "early" enough because there was some alpha test version that was never properly officially published and basically no one ever played, but because you read about it once somewhere you are trying to use that as a...