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Can't speak for anyone else, but pretty much I'd say, "Anything but what they are now." Angels could be floating balls of light. They could be 'holy undead'. They could be spirits that animate ordinary objects. They could be cherubs and seraphim. They could be flowing storms of sand and...

I second the Rogue with Hunter's Quarry. I'd give him kind of a 'ronin duelist' personality, and I'd cross out Hunter's Quarry and replace it with 'Go Old School', as in, "Huh, looks like this one's not as frail as the others; I'm gonna have to Go Old School on him."

Thread winner right here.

This is true. I meant more specifically that single claw was always inferior to double claw as a use of a standard action.

You can make one OA on each other creature's turn, so it's no longer possible to have one character 'soak' OAs for another.

He still only gets a Minor Action, Move Action, and Standard Action on his turn. The double claw ability is better than the single claw ability; when you're going to attack in melee, that's the one to use. The reason that he has the single claw ability is that it is a 'basic' attack, which...

Not to mention, you can hire four times as many :D

Regardless of how much damage it deals, the Soul Gem is just way too boring to be a 'Solo' trap. It needs more attack options, and some reactive defenses.

I thought it had been established that characters aren't their own allies.

This is not correct. The Constitution of the United States attempts to recognize some* of the rights that all people inherently possess, and enshrine those rights in law. *It doesn't claim to recognize them all; the Ninth Amendment states that "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain...

The werd ye be lookin' fer is "Yarrrrr-eka!"

Personally, I just see proficiency bonuses as a balancing mechanism to make weapons more comparable in power, and that's good enough for me. Also, the way that proficiency bonuses are allocated seem to show that the optimal weapon choice for a non-skilled combatant is to grab the biggest...

You remind me of one of the Artificial Intelligence koans: In the days when Sussman was a novice Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. "What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe." "Why is the net wired randomly?", asked...

... to Hide In. :)

I disagree on two points: First, I think most people don't think of 'highly descriptive of physical reality' as an important attribute for a board game to have.* Does Clue have 1-2-1-2 movement? Second, I somehow doubt that '1-1-1-1 movement' will ever be the defining attribute of D&D to...

I came up with a possible solution to the 'mark your allies to clear enemy marks' issue: A target can be marked by multiple creatures at the same time. However, if it makes an attack including ANY of the marking creatures as a target, then it ignores the effect of all marks. This prevents the...

So, someone asserts a position, and provides a supporting argument, and you say, "Why is that so?", and he says, "Because of the argument I already made, which you have not addressed", and you say back, "Addressing that argument would be painful, and I'd rather not endure the pain for no...

I'd also include the caveat, "non-followup". This means that the poison never hits the wrong target AFTER the stinger makes contact. I don't think causing a 'one-two punch' to never miss the second punch because of the image is a loss in believability. I mean, he already hit the 'real' you...

Obviously, the armor of choice for a Warforged Warlord. :D

Sounds good to me. I liked the 3E system of nonlethal damage at first, but the way that healing 'double-dipped' on healing nonlethal and lethal damage produced weird side effects. For instance, if someone punches you for 10 points of damage, then punches you for 5 more points of damage, and...