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Eh. Drop common sense from that list. :) Also, it's not clear where the damage bonus comes from. If I understand this correctly (and I'd like Hyp's interpretation) the RAW say a greatsword wielded in one hand by a character with Monkey Grip will do 2x Power Attack damage and receive 1.5x STR...

These rules are messed up. This is why development should use one term per concept and define each term in the glossary. Hyp - do you see a difference between size terminology (light, one-handed, two-handed) and use options (wielded in one hand, wielded in two hands)? I'm not arguing with you...

Does that mean he's selling your products retroactively? "JoeGKushner is a jerk!" :)

Disagree with ya here on use only, Patryn. The reason: size relative to the user matters on some occasions. The Size 1 term merely reflects that to the ogre, the long sword is a Size 1 weapon. To the human it's Size 2. It's a dynamic trait, whereas the other traits (medium weapon, may be wielded...

The sunder table is farked and is perhaps the most egregious abuser/victim of the terminology problem. Worse, they could have used existing terminology to make it more clear! Convert light to small, one-handed to medium, and two-handed to large to make more sense there. Then apply the multiplier...

OK, my "size N" description is, of course, relative to the intended user. A size 2 weapon for medium users is a medium weapon... it's a medium weapon even when an ogre uses it, but that makes it a size 1 weapon to the ogre (and the ogre has a -2 penalty while using it). There's some...

What does two-handed mean? The FAQ is attempting to rectify a problem caused by poor terminology. The problem is the SRD (and printed books) has one term (“two-handed”) in use to describe two different traits of a weapon. One use of the term references how a weapon is used (actually “a weapon...

Why a person who buys every month doesn't subscribe for half-price or less issues still completely baffles me. For the price of five issues at the newsstand you can purchase an entire year's subscription. Your characters buy CLW potions instead of wands, don't they? :) And Dragon's easy to stop...

In the latest Dungeon, the Eberron adventure described an airship as making it to the Xen'drik interior in 4 days.

Trolls... Hi folks! This is a little to the side of the guard vs. charm person issue, my apologies! A SOR 8 character wants an all-singing, all-dancing combat machine buddy. A troll wanders by. Poof. (Will DC 19 vs. troll's +3, troll fails 75% of the time, damn that Iron Will.) To get him to...

A question regarding overrunning invisible folks unintentionally A player jumped over a pit to pursue an invisible target. The pit was immediately in front of a door, which the jumper intended to move through. The invisible target, as luck would have it, was in the square on the other side of...

Red and green are the two colors most colorblind people can't see as "red" and "green." (Some have trouble with blue and yellow, and some research* shows there's a wider variety than I am familiar with - I am not color blind.) They're browns or greys, generally speaking. They're the same grey or...

Economics! Nightfall, that's a little silly. :) Basically if you buy five issues of Dungeon (or, for that matter, Dragon) from a store each year, you're better off subscribing to the magazine! (Includes gasoline and/or public transit costs.) Especially if you resubscribe for three years, when...

Well, it may not be obvious... ;) I think we agree, though - minimal stat blocks (something like "Rory Jenks, Blacksmith (LN Male human expert 3, craft (blacksmithing) +10, knowledge (local) +5") are cool. The question seems to be "what is 'minimal?'" (The follow-up seems to be "When do we...

It's a user interface Monte, I love and respect your work. I cannot do what you do, at least not without about a dozen years of dedicated effort and a good mentor like Coleman along the way. However, except for a few very talented people changing stat block presentation makes them harder to...

Totally. It's one of the reasons I'm not so sure that "Indy meets Maltese Falcon in D&D" is a good core story summary for Eberron. I flirted with running a film noir Eberron campaign, but the core story pretty much runs something like this: Unpleasant people try to take advantage of each other...

Indy gets word that the Nazis are searching for the Ark of The Covenant. He races after it to find the Ark first alongside people he doesn't trust or respect. Unbeknownst to him, everyone else who values it, and the people who died for it the Ark is a fake.

Ease-of-use: The "CharBook" Excel spreadsheet from Brian Wardman (hosted at RPGsheets.com) (http://www.rpgsheets.com/cgi-bin/arcdb.cgi?action=dl&id=1996) is pretty good for character sheet generation, but has no stat block outputs. And it has bugs, but he's working them out. PC Gen...

Fortunately, Michael from Crystal Caste wrote back. He acknowledged there had been some problems with markers on the mats (though they have not encountered it) as well as some other defects. He recommended washing it with hot soapy water or returning the product to the store from which I bought...

That's a terrible response. If they had indeed sold thousands, then surely exchanging or refunding one wouldn't hurt.