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I think the debate about kamikaze midget's idea is really a theoretical vs. practical debate. On the surface I love the idea. However, I've tried to teach several people how to play dnd, and having more options in the core DOES make that more difficult. They are flabbergasted by the sheer amount...

I think that parry should definitely work against shocking grasp style effects. Your character isn't completely blocking the attack, only reducing the effect. A successful non parried shocking grasp is where the mage strikes you on the chest and yells "Clear!". A parried one knocks their arm to...

Gotta Disagree Glancing Blow is obviously an evolution of the 1st playtest's slayer mechanic. Lots of people cried that "a miss should be a miss!", so I think they tried to make it more palatable. That viewpoint doesn't really make sense with the way AC and armor is handled, but eh. I loved the...

I'm firmly against Intelligence bonus = more languages. It makes no sense to me that every intelligent person is automatically multilingual.

Lowering the DC for a specific character is effectively the same as granting a bonus to their check. It just changes who does the math. It really doesn't solve the issue mentioned in the other thread, which has more to do with the breadth and applicability of any given skill or background. As an...

You and I agree on that one. If my character grew up and was trained in a desert on the banks of the life giving river (think the Nile), then he should definitely be able to swim. But if all the watercraft were barges and he never had much reason to learn how to climb, I shouldn't just have to...

The person who DM'd for me noticed the same thing about skill check DC's. That's the problem with the flat math system. I think the flat math would actually work a lot better with a 3d6 base, but I don't think that's gonna happen.

An earlier poster brought up a point I had worried about before the playtest and then forgotten. There's only so much space in the core 3. It's gonna be hard to give everyone exactly what they want. In fact, impossible. I think the goal is in fact to give everyone something close enough that...

I want a compromise between the two extremes. I want ability checks to be the norm, but a clean, paragraph long description for each skill of the most likely situations in which that skill's bonus might apply. As far as a pirate being better at climbing a rock wall cause he's used to hanging out...

The thing is, skills aren't an on/off switch in DDN, or at least that's their stated intent. Those background skills represent things your character is particularly good in. You don't have to have stealth to try and sneak around with your 1st level dextrous fighter. He'll just be 15% more likely...

Personally, I like the +1 to everything. It's the +2 to a single stat, making it higher than another races "favored stat" that bothers me. Even though technically every race maxes out at a 20, it still just doesn't feel right to me. HOWEVER, If humans stay exactly the same till the day DDN is...

Random Am I the only one who reads pech and thinks of the old movie Willow. AND now I have the uncontrollable urge to play a halfing wizard. "Follow the bird to your destiny." wise halfling(pech) wizard who conjured said bird. "It's headed back to the village." random villager "Ignore the...

RE: Bowseat Well, I would say easily 90-95% of the things I've done (or had done to me, lol) were "at-wills" but there are rare exceptions. Also, we are talking about a system that requires DM fiat to arbitrarily rule in a con check or your character could hypothetically fight from sunup till...

Agreed. Proffesional Lore (Sailor) in a campaign with a dose of nautical exploration would be very useful. It really comes down to the dm and players being clear on what sort of campaign they are gonna be in so they can make informed choices.

Firstly, I love the Combat Superiority mechanic. Secondly, the few posts of yours I've read Bowseat seem very thought out and respectful, so I'm not picking on you or declaring an edition war (I have an extensive 3.X collection but have played 4E Old WOD and others). That said..... The idea that...

My 2cents st that the warlord should have his own mechanic AND the fighter should have a "commander" fighting style. That way you can play your preferred character with the system that feels best to you rather than being shoehorned into a certain class because it's the only way to pull it off...

Oh, I love the whole minimum die result of 10 thing. The idea that you don't make the stupid silly mistakes that other characters do when they roll a 1 is pure awesome. It's the replacing your ability scores bonus that I don't like. It seems to actually go counter to character customization...

Dogbackward's Woodsman and Hunter are spot on. They allow a character to excel in a wilderness setting while still tying them into the world in a social aspect, something that seems to be part of the design for backgrounds. I would like to see the soldiers military rank featured changed to a...

Having everyone have an achilles heel would be excellent. If there is no way to have an invincible character than the temptation to try to create one is gone. You just make one that is good at their thing. I'm really hoping the designers make sure that there are spells and monster abilities that...

I guess that I think that the stats should be more or less equal. I've used as a character and ran as a DM a lot of homebrew. Sure, Dex helps initiative and AC, while Con helps HP. I get that. I once made a much simplified Mage class that allowed you to pick Con or a soul score, and it was NOT a...