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But I like my druid turning into a bear and ripping off some dude's head. :D Essentially, isn't this the problem? 3E druid was so broad and did so many things that people starts to think that all those abilities were intrinsic to being a druid. When they split the druid up into class A, B and...

Pray that there isn't a black dragon hidden somewhere in his family tree?

The bard can hold a sword in one hand and a wand in the other. If your off hand uses a light shield, he can hold a wand in that hand. If he uses the wand, he just loses the shield benefit for a round.

Yes, well, I just rounded down coz it makes for lazier typing (but I guess not since now I'm typing all this up). To Obryn Yes, I'm sure it's completely intentional and the designers meant for it to happen. I'm not thinking it's OP. I'm just mentioning the CharOp just in case someone is...

Over at WotC CharOps board someone did a chart of the probabilities of rolling a X and above using 2d20s. Essentially, the probability of rolling a 20 is 9%, a 19 or higher is 19%, and a 18 or higher is about 28%.

No. I remember reading the exact same rant on some forum while other people points out the flaw in his argument. And I wonder how long before this thread goes down in flames.

Regarding the whole avenger dueling a single monster thing. Sure they could duel, but nothing really prevents the rest of the party from pitching in. Avenger powers tend to chase away enemies other than their OoE target, but don't discourage their allies from attacking their OoE target. Heck...

That may have been the intention, but functionally, it doesn't happen that way on the game table. Wizards casting spells is a completely mechanical action, a simple cause -> effect, no different from the fighter swinging a sword and rolling a d20 to see if it hits. As for the whole fighter...

There is that one at will that deals damage to your target if someone attacks you. It doesn't do radiant damage on your hit, but it does have the radiant keyword so it should qualify for the radiant servent crit ability. But I do agree that it's not a very good at will though.

I was thinking of doing cleric multiclass and taking radiant servent. Avengers got quite a number of radiant melee powers.

I think DMs in general have a lot more leeway in sweeping weird things under the rug compared to writers. DMs can come up with ad-hoc explanations on the fly or try to direct the players' focus to something else. And because games are interactive, players may be too busy having fun playing to...

I think the basis of the objection to a world that doesn't respond to character levels is that what is realistic doesn't necessarily make for a good game, and a lot of people who plays an RPG wants to play a game. An underwater earthquake that sets off a tsunami and wipes out hundreds of...

One reason novels based on game setting are bad is because most game settings have rules that doesn't consider their impact on the way the setting's world would operate. In order for the story to be believeable, authors often would have to deviate from the setting's rules. Most game worlds are...

nevermind.

So the white dragon laughed himself to death? :D

The use of nuclear weapons during wartime in our world is rare (only two instances) but governments still build a bunch of hardened military sites to defend or withstand against nuclear missile attacks. Same thing with a psuedo-medieval D&D game world, except that flying dragons and...

In 4e, alignment is descriptive rather than perscriptive. It describes what the characters are instead of making rules for them to follow. This change started when 3e came out and removed the XP penalties for alignment change. In 3e, unless you were in one of the classes that has a alignment...

I think we're wandering away from the point of the thread here. Most of us won't care about whether tritons can talk with his water elementals. What the concern should be is that a monster of CR X can summon creatures of CR X+, and yet by the rules of CR and XP, the encounter is still...

Now that's just weird. What's the point of the stat block when you're always either gonna be adding a +1 or -4 to the atk and damage. You're never going to be using the stat block as is, unless everybody is flying or something....

Welcome to 3.5 weirdness. And the really weird thing, you don't adjust the CR or get extra xp for creatures the monster summons coz that's supposed to be already calculated into the original monster's CR (DMG 37).