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For what it's worth, the fix I'm planning for the wizard (probably actually going to be an arcanist) in my next campaign is encouraging them to take invocation spells. Lots and lots of invocation spells and very little else. I'm a little on the fence about making the resting changes I mentioned...

My Answer: For Rise of the Runelords, it's been about two months of weekly 2-3 hour sessions per chapter. So about 15-20 hours (we miss some weeks). Even assuming I'd paid subscription price (rather than getting the hardback), that'd come to less than a dollar per hour. Pretty good value by...

My players just really like getting XP and totalling it up and getting progressively closer to leveling. But I've definitely run games where I just tell everyone when it's time to level. I even ran one in 2nd Edition, adjusting everyone's leveling times so it roughly matched the XP chart for...

It's not just you by any means, although I've found most monks describe almost solely punches, so it ends up working out. If you do go with knuckles passing through unarmed damage, I'd still count it in corner cases like Vicious Stomp just to save on bookkeeping. You're welcome :) Cheers! Kinak

Personally, I'd allow the monk to pass through the unarmed damage. Because, really, making monks' lives a little easier isn't hurting anyone. However, I understand why they don't want it to work that way by the rules. Using your unarmed damage when you're armed is just sort of weird, from a...

By my reading, it'll work for 7 rounds (caster level in rounds, per the blink description) every time it is activated. Of course, he can activate it again as a standard action. That's long enough for most fights, so I'd probably run it as "activate it once and it'll last until the end of the...

This is a good suggestion. Cheers! Kinak

Congrats on getting this rolling. It looks nice, particularly the first preview image with the color spreads. Very snazzy. The thing I'd change is the second paragraph "In What's O.L.D. Is N.E.W. you'll..." It's a good paragraph on its own, but it duplicates a lot of the material from the...

If you accept the default fluff still applies, it says some interesting things about magic in your setting too. Cheers! Kinak

Covered that for you :) Cheers! Kinak

Honestly, I think increasing casting times might make casters more disruptive. Casters' utility and buff spells often cause more problems than their in-combat spells. The higher casting times get, the more out-of-combat spells they'll end up memorizing. Making casting a full-round action for...

I agree with Li Shenron that it's gotten hard to remember, but I actually ended up with a pretty sizable list... so hopefully your question jogged my memory. Sorcerer: For specific things, I thought the playtest sorcerer was a thing of beauty. It still needed to be developed, but it was...

It sounds like he'd be perfect for those chains in the Book of Vile Darkness... the ones that transfer damage to the people wearing the attached collars... I'm blanking on the name. But being able to shunt damage (and possibly spell effects) to people figuratively or literally chained to him...

I like the mix-and-match at the player level philosophy Next is espousing (we'll see how it goes), although I definitely understand ForeverSlayer and the problems that can come from certain ingredients being added. In a not-4e example, players can easily build a group-buffer or someone who...

The closest I've heard for Iron Heroes is the upcoming Path of War... which is Pathfinder Book of Nine Swords. So not quite the same thing, but it's from Dreamscarred so it should be good. All three are variant rules sets, though. I'd be surprised to see anything like an official update...

In D&D that role has been filled by male giants (particularly ogres and trolls). I think you could make a good argument for either being male-only. I think the more important question is why monsters that are traditionally shown as largely (or exclusively) male only rarely get labeled as such...

I've been running Rise of the Runelords using modified monster rules for Pathfinder. I just treat NPCs as monsters (assuming they need stats at all) and it's worked very well. Check the tactics section of the description for what they're doing in combat. Try to hit some of those points. On the...

It's not technically epic, but I have a certain fondness for Pathfinder's Mythic rules. It provides a lot of flexibility for how you integrate those "extra levels" into your game, if at all, and how they interact with your setting. It's definitely a learning experience. The biggest thing I...

Storminator gave a good description of the changes. I'd agree if you already have the 3e stuff, there's not any reason to bother with the 4e stuff for setting information. I read the 4e stuff fairly recently and don't remember any new regions or factions. Cheers! Kinak

You've drifted pretty far from the point here. I understand what you're saying, it just doesn't have any relevance to D&D. We're talking about a game where PCs can dodge beams of light and mitigate (or, in some cases, completely avoid) lightning bolts. Whether you or I can dodge a piece of...