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I've gamed for 12 years online; it's where I started DMing. With Chat interfaces, it's not just a necessity of rules light, but a lack of a grid, that is important. 4e is very grid-intensive, which is very difficult to pull off in a purely text medium like a chatroom. Then it becomes two blind...

But Artillery are supposed to have high damage. Look at the PDF Tequila Sunrise put up. Brute attacks: AW: High damage Recharge: Very High Artillery Single Target attacks: AW: High Recharge: Very High Controller Attacks AW: Medium Recharge: High Artillery AREA attacks: AW: Medium Recharge...

When I think about striker the traits that come to mind are relatively glass cannon - lots of damage, not too strong defensively. This should describe artillery and lurkers. I don't think a one-to-one translation of PC to NPC roles needs to be done. I'm OK with monster roles not being a...

Call me lazy, but I don't want to track con damage. I don't like having more descending pools of HP.

In some editions you died at 0 HP. I'd say that's a big penalty.

I for one just hate way that it monkeys with all of the math on your character sheet. Ability damage has very far reaching implications, and adjusting all of that is a pain. It's definitely against the 'simple and quick' they're shooting for.

How many house rules are enough for your group, how many are too many? I am finding that the more I hang around ENWorld, the more cool Houserule ideas I have or want to steal, the more things I want to tear out or change when it comes to a system. Many of those rules are PC creation or...

Here's suggestion: You get one round while below 0 HP. No death saves, no negative hit points. There's only two ways to keep you from dying. 1) Magical healing. This is the only way you can get up off the floor. 2) An ally needs to administer a heal check to stabilize you. When you're...

Tieing any sort of death save mechanical limit to resting would result in more incentive for the 15 minute work day. "Sorry man, I failed a death save, let's go take a nap." And while A DM can put more pressure on a group to move forward, the system is giving them incentive to not do so. I'd...

This book was talked about this at the D&DXP seminar. I for one welcome our new kobold overlords.

IMO the only way to change the tenor in here is to get the Mods to crack down. What I mean by "It doesn't matter" is as far as the mechanics of the next edition are concerned. If what is said here has no impact on WotC's decisions, then all it accomplishes is at best wasting time and engaging in...

Yeah, I don't think any sort of un-enforcible pledge is going to fix anything. And part of the edition war that is ignored is, well, defense. There's a thread on the first page of this forum where the tenor is basically, if you don't like level drain you're a PC-coddling nancy that doesn't like...

Various MMs have had "Leader" tacked onto any monster that had an effect that assisted other monsters. But you've created the Leader role, which lacks any explanation. Nor what the "Lead" power does.

For you, but not for me.

If I want to play a game that glorifies Bad Things Happen to PCs, I'll play Warhammer Fantasy.

You do know that soliciting a dedicated RPG forum online is likely going to skew your results, right? ENWorlders (and most people who frequent online forums about RPGs) are more likely a more hardcore gamers than your average gamer. So you may have some external validity problems. That's...

Does thinking about gaming count? Cuz I think about gaming way more than I think about sex. ... Wow I just made myself feel bad there. I'm unemployed with no group or girl so what else am I going to do? :p I clicked 4-6.

Edit: You know what, this argument isn't worth it.

Well, I can certainly see a lot of support among those who feel Epic gets little support. I don't have a horse in that race, but I think an epic-level Sandbox is sort of silly. But I still wouldn't mind pitching some ideas to you if high level is where you want to go. One thing I see lacking...

Know a guy who plays a psionic hawk. Kinda reminds me of the Polish army employing an actual honest to god bear to assist in hauling munitions. As far as the Greyhawk novels and talking animal characters are concerned, I'm writing an Arabian S&S novel with a talking cat familiar. The wizard...