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Ok so raise your hand, who is going to play a worthless farmer for your first PC?

If you believe in the DDI (kinda like tinkerbell you must believe for it to fly) then it will kind of do this with the rules database. I think the physical books might be a hard sell since they would have more pages and probably higher cost every time, which folks who already have the PHB might...

Because you have looked through a keyhole and have seen a television but have not seen a remote control so you assume you are stuck watching only one channel in that room. Open the door and we will talk.

Growing up I spent all the money I could beg/borrow (and in the case of loose change, steal) on dnd stuff from a Madison, WI store but I still dreaded going there because half the workers were stereotypical nerd-bastards who condescended like it was going out of style. Now the town has two...

In my playtests using the rules we have my players ended several encounters with 2 of their 3 'death tics' filled. If you ask me 'I died' or 'it was a cakewalk' both make a less enjoyable story than 'I barely made it' and the tighter balance of the math in 4e looks to be making it more likely...

I think you are right about the math. By drawing a line in the sand they do not need to 'support' anything scaling off the defined levels. When designing a monster/power they know when the math stops. But I think the intention of the whole epic/end at 30 thing was more to encourage DMs and...

Your definition of irony seems to be anything that does not exactly match your worldview. This is not the generally accepted definition. But anyway, if RPGs with levels are problematic, why are you interested in dnd?

We know that racial abilities also come from feats right? Feats none of us have seen? So pronouncing half-elves nerfed at this point is entirely premature, especially since there is no reason to believe that the pregens have to be min/maxed up the wazoo. Maybe they just wanted this guy to be...

Are not all leveled rpgs this way? If there are not a bunch of higher level bad guys out there somewhere (or lower in the dungeon if you go back far enough in dnd history) then who are you going to fight when you level up? The same level 1 scrubs? That is the magic of every RPG ever made, no...

It has been a very long time but I think my ad&d party took over the keep and made it their home base, was this part of the adventure or my dm?

The internet is truly a godsend to opinionated nit-pickers everywhere. Back in the day they just had to bother their pets/zine reader/upstairs neighbor but now they can bother thousands with the touch of a button! Often there is nothing new or 'important' to talk about so it hardly matters...

A real juicy excerpt, I loved it. For level 1 characters you can totally have them fight orcs but you will have more interesting fights tactically by going with kobolds or goblins because they go down faster and you can throw more of them with more interesting roles at the players without...

Thanks for the heads up, they both look pretty good to me.

This thread has been very informative, in particular it has informed me that the people I play games with for all their foibles could be a lot, lot, lot worse. I think I'll send them a card or something.

But you KNOW the council is the the pocket of Big Potions they will NEVER cross their corporate masters!! Our only chance... is a dance off! :melee:

Paladin loses his powers for being a coward. Fixed. Before word that it had been 'fixed' reached me we houseruled that the pally must be moving towards or engaging the target in melee for the mark not to be removed. Both the player and the DM know the intent of the rule (challenge this guy to...

You may say this now, when one of them rolls 3 18s and the next guy has all 12s you may feel different. I played a lot of the old way and while it was more fun because it was gambling but the cumulative effects of attribute bonuses over the many many rolls in a characters life can cause...

Trying not to get pedantic but what you describe is not a practitioner of passive resistance. It might be an interesting character but it is not a reflection of the philosophy of conflict resolution Gandhi espoused. For that to work you need to assume your 'enemy' is a moral individual with a...

Second is easier to use. especially if you are only rolling once for the mob per round (which I think is the rule although I rolled for each power separately to make it less swingy) you roll the die and at a glance you know what powers recharged on what you got.

My first dnd campaign was an AD&D evil party. It sucked. I still hate one of those guys. If I had not been such a nerd I never would have played again. That said we have not seen anything forbidding evil characters, they are just not spending any effort on writing guidance/rules for them (or...