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A friend of mine played a halfling fighter/thief named Mean back in the day. He wore a fake beard, insisted he was a smaller than normal dwarf, and had a penchant for taking shots a men's nuts. He was mean.

I can't imagine how you could have some characters with healing surges and others without healing surges at the same table. This is a daily resource used to throttle how much a character can do in a day. If one person has this limitation and others don't have it . . . not likely to work. But...

I DM a little more than half of the time. I roll dice in the open the vast majority of the time. I hide some rare rolls that the PCs either don't know are happening or have no chance of recognizing the outcome of the test. When I play with a GM that rolls behind the screen (not often lately -...

Anyway, like I was sayin', halfling is the fruit of the waterwarys. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, halfling-kabobs, halfling creole, halfling gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple halfling, lemon halfling, coconut halfling, pepper...

Dude, it was in the title!

What kind of somethings? House fires? Sick family memeber? Job calling you in? Can they play without you? When I DM I run my game as long as we're missing no more than 1 PC. Someone else at the table does double duty and plays the missing player's character. If they can't play without you, can...

Color me VERY happy.

Well . . . Some more thoughts: The critter (character) with AC 30 is very rare, even at max level. The critter (chracter) with +20 attack bonus is very rare, even at max level. 1st Level PCs: Optimized for attack bonus: +5 attack bonus, but no other neat combat traits or tricks and minimal...

I mentioned either 20 or 30 levels. Doesn't much matter to me. Conceivably it's 20 levels plus epic! doesn't change the numbers but instead adds options? I dunno. Also, the range is not 20 over 20 (or 30) levels. To achieve the max +20 to attack roll at max level you probably START with +5ish...

Inspired by many threads on this board of late. Let's "flatten" the math. I'll focus on attack rolls vs. AC, but assume a similar scale applies to all d20-based math. Assume the "class/level options" works across 20 or 30 (whatever the game supports) levels. The most basic of d20 rolls in...

IIRC, DM's Toolkit (I think) suggests ~1 rare item per character per tier. I've been following that guideline and it seems to work. Of course, we're only 6th level right now. My players won't give me a wish list (no matter how much I ask), so I've given up. I just give them cool stuff and let...

The Jester is a wise man and speaks the truth. I really like Nentir Vale Monster Vault, but I also LOVE low level D&D. They did a good job of adding more than stats to the monsters. There's a little bit for paragon play and some really interesting named dragons (which I love). Worth the price...

jodyjohnson, good takes all. My main problem: the time they take away from the story in 3.x and 4e. Back when an encounter could be resolved in a few minutes, having 3 or 4 random encounters in a session was no big deal. Now, if the PCs run into a "level appropriate" encounter of bugbears it's...

Bingo! Except my rule is "level up when it feels right" which is about every 2 to 4 sessions. Usually after a major success or the close of an interesting chapter in the story. And always during an extended rest. I pretty much ignore the XP rules except for a guideline in creating "appropriate"...

Elf has always meant two very different things in D&D: 1. The frolicking woodsy elves of Greenwood the Great 2. The supremely magical and distant elves of Lorien By making them distinct races, with distinct origin, flavor, and mechanics, 4e made it clear you what you were choosing to play when...

Get off my lawn! :P

Hm, you seem to be an otherwise reasonable person, but here you've obviously lost it. :P I love the fact that elf and eladrin are different races with different abilities and flavor in D&D. The name eladrin threw me off for a while, but I've come to accept it. If they presented wood elf and...

Not RAW, but I see no reason not to allow clever players to find an alternative solution to the problem. :P

I think this is where I'm trying to get. So, here we go again: Standard Action Banshee Wail (fear, necrotic) Encounter Attack: close burst 10 (targets living creatures); +15 vs. Will Hit: target is immobilized (save ends) First failed saved: target is unconscious (save ends) Effect: The burst...

Because it goes against the spirit of 4e. I like the death saves idea. Alternative proposed banshee wail power (for level 12 controller): Standard Action Banshee Wail (fear, necrotic) Encounter Attack: close burst 10 (targets living creatures); +15 vs. Will Hit: target makes a death save...