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There are a lot of aspects to consider. I don't think anything like Geneva rules should have any bearing on this decision except in the most progressive (read modern) of societies. Prisoners of war in the middle ages were not treated exceptionally well, and death was all but assured if they...

Plan A) Communicate. Talk to superstar, the GM, or both ... let them know the current dynamic makes you feel marginalized. You need to be careful to ensure your communication comes across as honest and not hostile. Plan B) If plan A fails, suck it up, accept things aren't going to change, and...

As long as Ogres remain the Chef, and kobolds remain Crazy Harry, 4E is good by me.

As much as I'm looking forward to 4E, Sword and Fist was a painful lesson. I'll let the early adopters sift out the wheat from the chaffe in the books before I touch them. I'm also going to wait until the first round is complete before buying. It was kind of crappy that some players had to wait...

The first is an aspersion on the game developers, the second is an expression of opinion. Those who don't see the difference tend to get dog-piled.

Either of these, though I'm more comfortable with the first. As interesting as Mentat's idea sounds (and it really is a neat idea), I just can't imagine all of the various re balancing that would go into making it work properly. I'm not implying it couldn't be done ... I just can't imagine the...

But what "standard"? Unless there is an array of items for the 6/8 non-math slots that every PC needs to have (which the designers have said they are trying to avoid), every character is likely to have an array of different items doing different things. There is no "de facto standard of...

The keyword is "dependent". WotC said they would reduce dependency on items, and they did. A character is now only dependent on three items. Of course characters are going to want more items ... its DnD. But they only need 3 of them to be balanced according to RAW. Even looking at the character...

To be fair, falling is probably the worst example you can make when describing unrealistic HP. The problem of surviving orbital reentry isn't the description of HP, its the rules for falling, or specifically, the damage received at the end of a fall. For the most common types of damage I come...

Actually, this does bring up a good point. We know PCs are going to be balanced with an assumed set of magical gear (of 3 items). Are we sure its fair to assume NPCs are balanced in the same way? If so, this is a somewhat valid point. I'm not overly fond myself of enemies needing to have magical...

3 required combat slots, 6/8 optional fun slots, limited stat boosters. Far more manageable. Color me happy. The ring limitation does seem a little bizarre, but it's not a serious enough problem that it'll bug me.

It should be. It was a hand-picked, personally financed expedition, and redundancy costs money. The focus on the super-spiffy magical items irked me too. I thought DnD was moving towards "What can my character do" and away from "What does my character have". I enjoyed the rest of it though.

Out of our group of six, I'm for it, one is against it, and the rest couldn't care less. But everyone is pretty much in agreement that after we finish up our current campaign (late '08, early '09), we'll at least take a look at it.

Kind of a stream of thought here ... maybe it's trigger some other ideas. The moon-calf is like an "ant-queen" or "bee-queen", responsible for laying eggs of specialized moon-cow drones. The "queen moon cow" lays an egg for a new moon cow queen that can only be birthed in the oceans. The castle...

I've played every core race except dwarves, elves, gnomes, halflings, half-elves and half-orcs.

I was actually much happier with the 3.5 Complete/Races series than I was with any of the 3.0 books. There were a few things I disliked in each of the 3.5 books, but overall the quality of the 3.5 books was much better IMO.

I wouldn't hold my breath. I can see Paladin's of different alignments having different powers (similar to what they did in UA), but I doubt they'd differ by deity. That would make to much mechanical tie-in with what is supposed to be a meta-setting. Best case, they tie in a unique Paladin...

The Monk was my first 3E character. He didn't hit the hardest, but in terms of single enemy domination, he was amazing. Enemies found themselves on their back and unarmed for most of the fight. He ended up being one of 3 legendary characters in our campaign setting. My second monk was a polearm...

Another vote for RttToEE. I remember I started it, but our group was in a state of flux at the time. By the time things stabilized, I wasn't in the mood to DM and we'd moved onto different adventures.

Not sure what type of sad you are looking for, but "Mad World" is a pretty haunting song IMO. I think the Gary Jules version (on the original XBox 360 Gears of War commercial or Donnie Darko) is a little more in line with what you are looking for than the Tears for Fears version.