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I have run my home brewed world since first edition. It had elves, dwarves, gnomes, halflings, half orcs, half elves, and humans. Clerics, druids, fighters, paladins, rangers, illusionists, mages, thieves, assassins, and monks. In second edition, it had all of those as well. And it had them in...

Here is something fun. According to 1e, a level 1 fighter was called a veteran. Hardly seems appropriate for a noob either. He goes from there up to warrior, swordsman, then hero at 4th level. Awfully low level to claim to be a hero. From there to swashbuckler, myrmidon, champion, then...

And that will be fine, if that warlord could face off against a fresh faced 18 year old fighter who is also level 1 and give him a severe beating because of his years of fighting experience, or at the very least, command his army to give him a severe beating because he is, after all, a warlord -...

Consider this post (32 posts before yours): http://www.enworld.org/showpost.php?p=3911611&postcount=145 It directly addresses your concerns. So what's your take on viewing it this way?

No, but I imagine Ghengis Khan didn't start his adult life as a warlord. He started it like all the rest of the mongols at the time. A nomad warrior. By 3.5e D&D terms, either a fighter or barbarian. By 4e terms, looks like fighter. His father had died when Genghis was 9 (called Temujin - the...

I don't know that I agree. Maybe I've just been playing D&D for 30+ years, but wizard doesn't strike me as having to be pretentious or powerful. On the other hand, someone who can magic missle 3 or 4 times a day can slaughter a typical commoner with ease. Burning hands memorized a few times...

Nobody is saying (or at least I'm not saying) that any feat should explain its mechanics in its name. That would be absurd. Currently, in 3.5e, I have over 1200 feats on a single list I typed up. I left off hundreds of feats I thought were pretty worthless for the sake of 'slimming' down the...

Stunning Ogre Thrust? Come on, can't we keep this PG? At least PG-13? That sounded kinda porn-ish. Ron Jeremy called, he want's his feat back... I did like Exploding Medusa Expert. I think I'm going to use this one in my 3.5 campaign.

Many people seem hung up on the smite+heal or smite+AC mechinic. There are comments about how it doesn't make sense that a paladin can swing at a monster and, hit or miss, some random friend 20' away gets a bonus to AC. And those people are right, assuming the AC bonus has a cause/effect...

Well said, but as a further note, homebrewing by adding fluff is easy. But homebrewing by changing fluff from a to b, or by removing fluff, is more complicated and requires a good memory to look at your own fluff and be able to translate it back to the printed fluff. And not just your memory...

I don't mind that it's close to warlock. I'm clever enough to know the difference. But, it will be strange to come up with abbreviations for stat blocks. Can't abbreviate it as War or Wrl because of warlock, and can't use the first+last letters (a common second choice for abbreviations, such as...

Except this would be misnamed then, since a counterattak is an attack you would make to counter an attack against you, which has no bearing upon an opponent drinking a potion or casting a teleport spell. ***** As for me, Opportunity Attack is my favorite. I like to remove prepositions from...

Don't forget that with the new stat system, even low stats will have some bonus. 10, 8, even 6 would be possible and, accorting to recent posts, add some positive bonus instead of negative. If that's true, then these stats could still be dump stats and add positive modifiers.

I dont' think anyone is claiming you can "decipher" a feat you've never seen before just from the name. My dislike of Golden Wyvern Adept is that it doesn't tell me anything about what it does. Does this feat help the adept brew potions? Improve his Teleport range? Let him summon more monsters...

Still, it's the "Adept" part that I find objectionable. It doesn't mean anything in game terms. That's all fine when the PHB has 60 feats to learn. But years from now, when there are over a thousand feats in the various splat books, nobody will know all of them. Having the name mean something...

At least with those spells, you know what they do. When you see Otto's Irrestistable Dance on some NPC in an adventure you just bought, you know it makes people dance. When you cast it, you might look it up for specific details, but when you are first deciding which spells to cast, that name is...

I agree with you that Power Attack is very situational. For the cost of a whole feat, where most classes only get 7 feats by the time they're level 20, it's a tough, and usually ineffective, decision to select power attack instead of something more frequently useful I further agree that Power...

I disagree. The name is fairly important. For example, at this point in 3.5e, I have a feat list. I opened up MS Excel, and entered the name and sourcebook of every feat in all the books and splat I have. I can hand this list to my players, and I use it myself for NPCs. This list has over...

No, that's a whole "flavor" concept. In Star Wars, the only people who don't need armor are running around with some mighty impressive supernatural powers. That works in the Star Wars flavor. That totally doesn't work in a medieval flavor, or in a D&D flavor. I surely cannot imagine anyone...

As for me, I don't care. I have almost completely abolished alignments from my 3.5e game, and would do so again with 4e. I tell my players to write an alignment on their character sheet only if it helps them from a roleplaying aspect. I judge their alignments from how they play. And to be...