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I wrote a much longer reply that covered much the points as Janx, but this pair of sentences pretty much sums it up for my experience. Romance, sex, sexuality, and love RARELY show up in our games. It's not that we don't want gay characters in our games (I can recall one gay male PC and one gay...

Wizards went to the wizards' tower to learn arcane magic. Clerics studied at the church to learn divine magic. Rogues worked on skill abilities and landing devastating kidney shots. Fighters trained at the military academy and know fighting tricks that other folks just don't know. Seems fine...

I totally read that as Mass Marketing, and I thought, "No, it's not a standard action. Probably a hard skill challenge where each success represents days or weeks of activity."

1. I'm not aware of a limit on number of custom monsters. I have a few dozen on my account and have had no problems. 2. Export sucks! No good editable format. However, the tool itself provides pretty good support for editing a monster (including name, stats, flavor text, etc.). I save my...

Said to the wealthy merchant who has just offered the party a fortune to rescue his kidnapped daughter, "Do you have the gold on you now?"

One defender is Essentials Knight with Defend the Line (slow on hit) and World Serpent's Grasp (knock slowed opponent prone) which means EVERY fight against solos sucks unless the solo is very mobile. Yeah, a wing buffet or tail slash vs. Reflex would be cool especially as an interrupt or...

Interesting. My party of 6 optimized level 9 characters kicked the crap out of a "by the book" Calastryx and I had her run away when down to about 150 hp. Calastryx lacks off turn actions and needs either threatening reach and/or some type of immediate action. She also needs a way to deal with...

Not only do I let the dice fall where they may (and where the players can see them), I occassionally put the PCs in situations where a PC death is likely. I think it adds a ton of excitement to the game when the players know that a PC can (and likely will at some point) die. Sure, there's the...

No good because if you make it possible to have a 30 in strength then every fighter will strive for 30 in strength and the game will have to be balanced against the fighter with 30 strength so we'll have to have magic and stuff to make sure all fighters have 30 in strength. Flat math better...

Interesting. I played both clerics in our playtest against the kobolds. I know for a fact that I played the Moradin cleric with focus on one word on the character sheet: Defender. If the sheet said paladin I might not have thrown into the pit with spikes the kobold prisoner who couldn't speak...

My kingdom for some XP! :p

Or could simply give you a strength of 18/00? :)

I hope there is no increase to ability scores from gaining levels.

We were searching. In fact, I was doing the ol' "10 foot pole prodding the floor" search. He decided that since the trigger was a protrusion from the wall we didn't detect it and just had to avoid. Again, no big deal, but I would have done it differently. She had it memorized, but it doesn't...

We play 4e most weeks. Took a week off this week for missing players so did the playtest. I hope to do more, but not sure how/when. Most of us have limited time to play each week and our current game is going GOOD so don't want to mess with the mojo there. EDIT: Doh! How about I answer your...

Yup. That's how we played it, but I'm interested to see/hear about alternatives. Until you start getting multiple missiles and it becomes even better? I can see that against a melee only brute. Range him to death. I'm pretty darn sure you have to use an action to hide, even for a rogue. Since...

I will not convert an existing game to D&D Next. I'm postive we will play D&D Next as soon as it is released. My current campaign has a good chance of wrapping up somewhere in the epic tier about the time we guess D&D Next comes out (Gen Con 2013?).

We did full on tactical combat the whole way. The DM is a 3e/4e player that's never played without a grid, so, I'll cut him some slack. I probably would have run this whole thing without a grid. I liked the game. I didn't like people slipping past the front lines with impunity because of tiny...

Memorial Day Playtest Quick Take We played. It was fun. It felt like D&D. It even felt a little bit like old school D&D. Ignorance Disclaimer I did not read any of the DM material before playing. I’m normally a DM in our group. I wanted to experience the game from the player's side of the...

I happened to play both clerics in our playtest (we were 1 player short of full group). The defender cleric was more fun. I loved blocking kobold attacks with my shield. The laser cleric was far more effective on attacks and healing. If/when we start a game with D&DNext I'm going to beg...