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For 4E, with magic attack rolls, this is indeed a question that needs to be answered...which doesn't mean I like the way they did that so far, though I could see the area effect attacks being roughly equal to splatter-attack grenade weapons, while a failed magic attack on a ray would yield a...

Me, I'm wondering how people get the idea to compare saving throws and their context with attack rolls and their context in older editions, but I guess everything is possible. :)

Wouldn't say that, personally. I've taken my players through the Known World in Basic D&D, AD&D 2E and D&D 3E most recently....and so far, it always worked well. Cheers! :)

Well, one thing is for sure...WotC has picked up the consolation-price strategy from different sports competitions. Missed your attack roll with that nifty class ability? No worries, it'll still have an effect on somebody. Makes me wonder if the fighter will be able to turn a near enough miss...

Well, since you're asking...take a look at the two sneak peeks into the Races & Classes book. What's mentioned there basically turned off the last bit of interest I had in 4E, to be honest. If you're asking why, it's basically because that thing coming in 2008 now looks so much different from...

No, you don't....that's why I said it "used to be" not only about killing monsters. I well recognize that this focus at higher levels is long gone, and for the worse of the game in my opinion. It used to be that D&D took into account the shifting power levels of high-level characters compared to...

Looking at my past games, and the fact that I usually had to recap what the characters were there for this time, and what happened to make them get there (or have a player with good notes do it), I don't think giving out advice on how to keep the last game in everybody's memory is a bad idea...

Well, I can say one thing from experience by now...even if you set out to play the "good guys", if you get yourself entangled in a political campaign that is filled with intrigues, and the whole thing is played even halfway realistically, you end up shades-of-grey AT BEST. My goody-two-shoes sun...

So the point is that players should try out something they don't want to because they might find out it is more fun than they expected? Not that I don't agree on that, and not just for gaming (food, movies, music, and whole lot of other things come to mind), but my experience with human beings...

And on the note of Adventure Paths etc...the current Adventure Path from Paizo, Rise of the Runelords in Pathfinder Magazine, actually provides rules for running a keep in Varisia in #3 The Hook Mountain Massacre. I haven't read the adventure yet, but that part jumped out at me from the Content...

What kind of campaign are you looking for, then? RC D&D is basically set to take characters from local adventure seekers through regional heroes towards political power players and finally (as coup de grace) towards immortality, and delivers enough tools for each stage to make it possible.

You know, the basic question that needs to be answered is what exactly you are aiming at with this thread, because I could simply pose the opposite question "Why should they if they don't want to?" and describe a counter for every argument you might bring up. This could turn this thread into a...

All very nice. Except poison damage to hit points. Meh, I really wonder why they keep the traditional attributes around if everything attacks hit points again. One of the things I liked about 3E was the attribute damage of poisons. Color me neutral on that development. Encounter zones are nice...

Smaller areas of civilizations (fortified towns, city states, etc) surrounded by big areas of wilderness with dungeons, monster-infested ruins, forgotten cities, etc. At least that's how it sounds every time it was mentioned. :)

Maybe it's the fact that the career of "most" D&D characters starts off as mere adventurers that earn fame and fortune by slaying monsters and looting their remains. Given the speed of character leveling that 3E instilled into D&D, the changed possibilities simply don't register much before the...

Because neither DM nor the other players want to go in that direction with their game? :)

Yep, seeing this "neologism" apparently came up in the 18th century, it's high time we went back to the more appropriate "mail" and confuse everyone of the new players WotC is trying to attract by making them wonder how a fighter is supposed to be protected by a bunch of emails. :lol: (And...

Well, you know...it was the classic problem all over again. I mean, they just couldn't call them Entwives, could they? And Treantwives is awkward to pronounce. And since there were enough comments about slutty-looking fey in the MM1, they probably went with the path of least resistance...you can...

Hey, you're welcome. Glad I could help you out, too, even though my post wasn't aimed at you, and not intended as "public education" either. But I'm sorry to have to inform you that, even though my screen name starts with G too, I'm not the inventor of D&D. But I'm sure that somebody around here...

You know that different types of armor are in the game so people who want to, for example, play in the early Crusades, or in the times of Karl the Great, have a range of armors available from which to tailor the choices of armor in that specific setting, right? One of the strengths of D&D is...