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I'm reminded of Brienne in A Song of Ice and Fire, who also works pretty darn well. There's a trick to this sort of thing, however, to play it so it doesn't seem like you are creating such characters specifically to counter perceived stereotypes. Otherwise the pandering inherent becomes more...

This is a way more interesting, level-headed, and helpful thread than I imagined it would be. Kudos ENWorld! I have a lot of reactions, but I'll try to focus on things that have been less discussed. 1.) It's been touched on indirectly, but I thought I would clarify: When you ask "Is D&D...

ExploderWizard has a good point. It is too easy and too boring to merely say "I use diplomacy," and something more interesting should be encouraged. But the same can be said for trading basic attacks. There are parallel solutions to these parallel problems. The more robust solution is a...

The "shire halfling" in Ari's Advanced Player's Guide might be what you are looking for. I believe it is available as part of the free preview of that book, still available at yourgamesnow.com. By the way, a lot of people on this thread seems to think that the obsession with buff heroes is a...

My wife was reading the OP over my shoulder and had a good insight. You say that your SOs tried gaming and didn't like it, and that this is fine because it allows you to have your "guys night out." Fair enough, but is it possible you presented the game as a guys night out when you showed it to...

Jhaelen begins to hint at my thought: Haven't we been seeing many discussions about how awful it is that the powers in the MM lack fluff text? Which leads me to three observations. 1.) You can't please everybody. 2.) It's interesting that the retort for complaints about too much fluff is the...

For those looking for a Tome of Horrors type 4e sourcebook: Fiery Dragon got ahold of the rights to Sword and Sorcery and is publishing a 4e Creature Collection this year (scroll down). I'm not very familiar with the Creature Collection series, but it was a sort of Tome of Horrors also-ran, yes?

I can't speak for the swordmage, but for the paladin the sense of their marking is that the deity is actually invoked to single out the target. "In the name of Pelor I challenge thee, evildoer!" Hence the radiant damage and the fact that it can be done at range.

The Rates $4.95/mo seems like a good deal for two magazines and the compendium.

Re: Monster mechanics are a bunch of numbers that don't tell a story. I would say no. Some examples off the top of my head: Kobolds being "shifty" shadow bat's flyby and hide powers that activate when the monster is bloodied aura of fear/fire/etc. All of which, in addition to being...

Second Wind is specifically listed as an Action Type, which is what I based my reasoning on. You can of course receive all kinds of passive effects that may grant Healing Surges or saving throws, but you normally cannot take actions while unconscious. However, Mengu above is right, in that the...

You can't take actions when you are unconscious. Taking a Second Wind is an action, even when it is facilitated by another player's Heal check. So no, actually. There are already rules for stabilizing a dying character using Heal, with a DC 15 check. It sounds like your players are trying to...

I didn't start playing role-playing games until just after 3.5 rolled out. I'm not someone for whom "gish" has a storied meaning from my long involvement in the game. Yet "gish" suits me just fine. If he's also moody, and a good member of a usually evil race, then why not? I don't think anyone...

"Armor Class" is an intuitive term. "AC" is not. Also, when you say that "gish" is another bit of jargon in an already jargon-heavy hobby, you fail to say why that other jargon is fine, or why you are drawing the line at "gish." Which means there must be some other reason, which means it is not...

So what are people's problems with the word? From the threads here I can garner two. "It's non-intuitive." I guess, but so is a lot of gamer jargon. AC, BAB, d%. "It doesn't mean what you think it means." But words change meaning, and specific words tend to acquire more general meanings...

Hey look, a fray! Ima jump init! So in language, there is this phenomenon where words that originally have very specific meanings gradually acquire more general ones. "Defenestrate" used to just mean "to throw out a window:" now it also means "to get rid of." "Decimate" was the practice of...

That's what I meant, yes. And I feel that freedom from the revision cycle is important enough that those who want their books may have to cope. Imperialus, I can appreciate that not all gamers are tech savvy, but we are moving toward an era where computer technologies are more and more...

I think we will find that the two are mutually exclusive, though. See my "less utopian" post.

This is good stuff.

Thanks for merging the threads! Maybe this is a generational thing. The internet is my newspaper, my weather source, my yellow pages, my phonebook, my shopping guide, my storefront, my atlas, my mapbook, my encyclopedia, and so much more. Yesterday I needed to measure something, and realizing...