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I'm not arguing with your discussion of setting and story, but plot isn't connected to setting or story. Plot is the series of events that leads to a conclusion. In a typical D&D game, plot may not be a connected series of events (unless you're running a structured AP for instance). Although...

I'm looking for a good skill system that does the three following things that I often find I like/need in a typical D&D game. It doesn't have to be a D&D skill system that already exists. 1) Provide for use in a tactical combat situation, that doesn't require a bunch of extra rolling on a...

If you look at some of the various items that have changed over the playtest packets, you can see some of the testing process going on. Take feats for example Let's test feats built into classes and specialties Now let's remove the feats from classes and specialties and test them separate as...

I'm seeing some different uses of relevant in these posts. 1) Relevant to the player's goals 2) Relevant to the DM's plot I'm seeing both of these uses mix-matched in various posts. Take the desert discussion for instance. I'm seeing the desert is relevant to the DM's plot and shouldn't be...

My only suggestion would be to move all the "appearance" stuff to a second or third page. I don't think it needs to be referenced often in a game. But I always do like having it on the sheet.

"Conviction, Mass" (cleric 3) was pretty much a go to spell for clerics in most 3.5 campaigns I played in. That plus "Alter Fortune" pretty much made the party auto-suceed most saving throws, especially at the high half of the game. My only hesitation with your house rule is that it becomes...

There no reason to suggest that heal wouldn't work to heal the baddie if it was cast on the character caring the horn (although that's debatable). Just have the cleric touch the character and both the PC and the Baddie will heal. I think that's a perfectly fine compromise. You could say they...

Damage output for casters has decreased, especially with the removal of most of the save or die spells, but there are still tons of save or suck spells, which pretty much end fights (with the martials cleaning up the mess). The disparity between martial and caster isn't in damage though, it's in...

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While I agree in theory, in my table experience, this has never been the case, especially in 3x play, where scrolls and wands are plentiful and wizards have access to just about all spells with careful planning. Clerics fill the gapes with air walk, wind walk, find traps, etc. Even Druids have...

I don't think it's a matter of the character getting better at the particular skill, as more that the challenge because significantly less important. The party has resources to bypass a particular challenge without relying on skill checks. If a party has the resources necessary to lop off a...

That's a pretty good summary of the issue with the 3x system. While I don't particular like the 4e system, it does address the problem in its own way.

Personally I would like shields to do something different than armor, since using a shield is active rather than passive (like armor). I'm not sure what that would be, but a +1 or +2 AC bonus has never sat right with me. Attacking with a shield can be very effective, at least if you're a...

If the GM planned for this to happen, then it is expected the goal is not to go to the city, it is then to go 100 miles away from the city, in this case the desert. If the DM told you the goal is the city, then there is a miscommunication between goals. Which is what I believe others are saying...

What would probably happen is Oh, a SIEGE. There must be a central courtyard. Teleport in. Walk back across the desert because the damn teleport misfired. Ask the DM to hand-wave the walking back to the city. Ask one of the residents to draw a picture of the courtyard to increase my chances of...

I ran a wizard from 1-20 with an AC of 10. Wizards don't need AC. If you're being hit by things, you're doing it wrong. :)

Another question is, should the DM hand-wave punishments designed to prevent use of the spell in the first place (plane shift, teleport, etc)? Those punishments are built into the game system (and few remain from the 1e and 2e era into 3e). Shouldn't the hand-waving be done before the spell is...

I don't have books anymore, so my hard drive.

I'm really enjoying this thread. Both sides are really bringing up some nice discussion points and I think that both of these sides are probably playing the same way we all play, with the objective of having fun. I recall one scene we were playing in PF where there were a bunch of demons. I...

I'll pipe in here for a quick add. It seems to me that the issue is that the desert in the previous examples is more akin to 3a where you're suddenly on an island in the ocean where you have to spend days sitting around waiting for a school of dolphins to appear and take you to the other side of...