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It's not really something one could provide a quote for or against. At this level, it's a playstyle choice/preference. In some games/settings, all creatures are born able to choose their morality and right/wrong is determined by the actions and consequences - like IRL. In other games, there is...

Those are some nice ideas! I think I was unclear in my premise : I use inherent bonuses and treat them in all ways as if they were weapon bonuses - because it is "boring" in a sense to do "only" max damage on a crit. The idea was not to add the weapon crit die TO the "base" crit die - it was to...

I've been wondering about this and would be interested in your thoughts on the matter : When using inherent bonuses and having the +d6/"plus" on the crit as a baseline, what would be an appropriate "bonus" to criting with a magical weapon. I find that simply converting "damage" to "fire...

Yeah... that's pretty hard to replicate in your backyard. :)

Just to throw my grain of peppered salt in here : It will be even harder than that! (left purposefully vague) What constitutes good design and good CR will change depending on tables - a monster preview from a few days ago had a creature set at CR 4 (I think) that could outright kill a PC of...

That does sound very cool! A thing that popped in my head while reading : the construction and destruction of portals is one of the grayer areas of PS - there are many ways of "affecting" portals, but outright destroying one is always a bit of a mystery as to the how. Some adventures propose...

I agree - Plane Scape is one of those settings that can require a great deal of "player buy-in". On the other hand, one of the worst things about Plane Scape is how awesome we feel it should be and that anything less is "bad" - I am very much guilty of this. I've been trying (with moderate...

I've always wondered why there was a "striker" role at all... Deal lots of damage? How is that a meaningful role?

I'd counter that this is more of a "deep setting" issue - whenever you have a setting with very deep development, some players will love it and almost "study" it... others, not so much. If you really played up the faction wars of Waterdeep and the intrigue of the Lords - some players would...

I'm sorry, but I have to disagree - "cool" knots DO make the binding stronger. The rope, in and of itself, no. BUT you won't be fighting the rope, you'll be fighting 2 ropes, 3 ropes, etc - that's the basic premise of braids : a physical configuration of an item that significantly increases its...

If the "un-regular" one is willing to accept advice from the others or yourself on building choices, and your regular players talk to each other and build their characters together, then I'd lean into the "go for it" camp. It all boils down to : will the PCs have a similar power level. (As you...

Depending on your group's mentality of play, you could have a great game of wild variety, satisfied players who get to play exactly what they want OR you could have some arcane casters take wizard spells, every primal character take barbarian powers and every martial character having twin-strike...

Sadly, I figure it's pretty high... I know I get all excited by the "blade-frills" on the pages and the off-kilter quotes jammed in every once in a while. On the other hand, if I get a clearly presented product, I can get over almost anything - In terms of book aesthetics, 2e PS was insanely...

Same as Yora : pre-gen PCs =why? Player's primer = essential (I'll build my own if none is provided) The greatest Plane Scape games I've had, had to deal with the nature of the planes themselves -not really a "person" antagonist. So instead of a compelling BBEG (which is always a nice thing...

This is quite late to the party, but I just stumbled on this guy and am raving - it's also a little additional knick to the feels (for me). Here's hoping I'm not breaking any rules ... His main thread on the OotS forums ...

For computers, you are quite correct. For humans... This has also been my experience. While, and this is no secret, I LOVE 4e, 4e fails in presenting itself in an approachable manner to many. One of these hiccups is the minor action; it's something that can make players feel they "forgot...

In this case, I am mistaken and now understand why silence isn't an insurmountable threat. Thank you.

Both Mislead and Contingency are not part of the basic rules - this does not invalidate their use, but I do not have the PHB : they are not possible solutions for me or mine. Counterspell is not effective against a readied silence. Unless I've missed something, reactions are reserved for...

The way I read silence means that around 6th or 7th level, you cannot make a significant fight against a level 1000 wizard if there is a cleric in the party w/o special considerations that are in place specifically to neuter the cleric. That, I interpret as broken in the sense of not being able...

For me, personally, these are the kind of stat-blocks that make me create my own stat-block for the creature. This kind of presentation is unusable for me at the table. For creatures with powers that are so wordy, I'd actually prefer the addition of a condensed stat-block that references...