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Honestly, I would more likely assume they would point to the Starter Set than the 3 core books. It's in the name "Starter" and has Dungeons and Dragons emblazoned on it as well as "Everything you need to start playing the world's greatest roleplaying game". Then on the back, it says to expand...

I don't know, they gave us 4 classes, some 50 spells and a handful of backgrounds for free. I can expect them giving another race and another dozen spells for free. On the question of making money, this would actually be a great way to sell their adventure path using the race and spells as sort...

False equivalency. A dog doesn't have the physiology to throw anything, lacking opposable digits as well as joints that would provide the ability to throw things. The Tarrasque, judging by the picture, seems to have a much more bipedal gait with its front legs for support, similar to a...

My view of the Tarassque is thus: It needed to have a burrow speed, and the designers failed in providing that. Taking it as RAW, I would advise DMs who don't want to change it to punish people who try to defeat it through a war of acid splash attrition. It takes a while to defeat a monster of...

And you'd be wrong. There are so many things, soooooooo many things, that the player's can do that aren't expressed in the PH or any other rulebook explicitly. Handstands? Not in the rules. Trying to gouge someone's eye out with a spoon? Not in the rules. Surfing down a flight of stairs on a...

Why did this thread get made again? Hasn't this topic been beaten to death already? The people that argue that the Tarrasque can't do anything that's not in its rules and that nothing should be changed and that the designers are bad won't change their minds. Likewise, the people who say that we...

Dinosaurs are just stat blocks. Why not re-purpose them into some other animal that you want to use?

There have been three rereleases of these games on iPad and PC that were high on the charts. These games are immensely popular, and far more popular than D and D has been. The newest Drizzt book came out in 2012 and was a new York times best seller. Say what you will but forgotten realms is by...

You're still looking at this from an internet grognard perspective. R.A. Salvatore, as hated as he is, still tops the charts when it comes to fantasy. When I go to Barnes and Noble or Hastings, I don't see massive sections of books about Greyhawk, I see sections of Dragonlance and Forgotten...

Best? Well that's a matter of opinion. If you think best as in the easiest to give an adequate challenge, then yes, I suppose you would be right. But best being the most fun? Probably not. so, players increase in level, therefore they will get better magic items, therefore they will fight...

I only brought up the other editions because someone else mentioned 4E. I feel like we're arguing on the basis that these items are common or expected. The belt of cloud giant strength is a single number on one of the tables. Ditto for storm giant strength, fire giant strength, and frost giant...

As pkt77242 said above, LMoP was written way before the magic items were finalized. It also is more of a one off, and thus allows for more treasure than a party would typically have, presumably just to have some fun with handing out treasure. That's.... that's the point. Magic items are...

I just said the exact opposite of that. These encounters allow you to use monsters at any level, regardless of the magic items the players are using. 4E only allows you to use those that are the perfect CR, because they are so powerful that the magic items are required. "You can house rule...

This is optimistic, but unrealistic. There aren't enough monsters to cover that wide range of levels, and the entire point of this edition is being able to use monsters that aren't in the Correct CR. The challenge isn't always going to be perfect, but that's ok, because we're playing an RPG, not...

I don't see how this is a problem. We aren't playing a tactical video game here, where every encounter must be perfectly balanced in order to provide an adequate challenge curve for the player over the course of the game. This is an RPG, where monsters exist not where they would be the most...

That's not what part of the math means. It means that when designing monsters and abilities, the designers did not anticipate the PCs having magic items. I.E. In fourth edition, the enemies damage, AC, and to hit scaled with the knowledge that PCs would be getting certain magic items at certain...

No, it's not included in the math of the game, and it does not assume the players will have this stuff. In fact, quite the opposite! The math assumes that there won't be any magic items in the party, which is evidenced by the higher level CR monsters have magic resistance, but not immunity...

About the Greyhawk complaints, who other than grognards actually knows about Greyhawk at all? There are at least a few fantasy buffs that know about Drizzt and Elminster and the Forgotten Realms, perhaps Dragonlance as well, but Greyhawk is relatively unknown. This edition just came out and...

I would think my post would be good evidence to the contrary of this point. Even with a couple characters being basically cheats (too powerful magic items, a character with permanent fly) I was still able to give them a challenge.

Oh, no doubt it was a terrible party composition, but had they had a cleric to help them out with healing, it wouldn't have been much trouble to add a couple more traps and hit them with a few more wights as well! And these were people that have been playing since the 70's, so they had no lack...