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Has divorcing game mechanics and flavor ever been an option for you? That is, giving the bright, plucky, hardworking swordmage a 20 intelligence and maintain that he is not incredibly brilliant? Or, playing the strong, plate-wearing halfling paladin who actually dumped strength for his charisma...

Well, any level-based game actually does indicate or lend itself to it. Wasted time doesn't hurt you in a strict sense, but it does in a world where there are rival forces that are also out there gaining levels and power. If only players can gain levels, then the question is how the BBEG and...

How the heck is this an edition wars thread? Both 3E and 4E sees you getting better at skills just by leveling up (i.e. killing monsters.) Or, did you mean between earlier editions? It's certainly a funny observation, and one I suggest that you do not get your grundies in a bunch over. By the...

Not everyone will agree on what constitutes "fun at the table." You're right, that's all that matters. But if the power-gamers want to defeat challenges as a well-oiled and powerful machine (as most of my players do) then having someone who either doesn't do it well or worse for them, someone...

Try me. Or not, it doesn't matter. But don't make the assertion that I cannot understand. You, really, don't know. EDIT:Missed the last post. I'm not sure, but it seems like you think that I encountered "other intelligible viewpoints" but actually, I hadn't. I was waiting for those viewpoints...

Care to elaborate? I'm not closed to other ideas, if there is a reason to play a character with a low primary stat, as in, whatever your character's goal is, you have a low stat in that, then I would like to hear it. For instance, having a 10 strength fighter who only uses a longbow would...

1. Was it a tactical warlord? and 2. Why you do this? Did everyone have similarly combat-bad characters? This goes back to that idea in the 'other' thread where combat-effectiveness matters to an extent, unless the entire group is doing it in which case the DM can just use appropriately bad...

I'm not sure everyone agrees on that, otherwise it would have ended 9 pages ago. What seems obvious to you seems to be obviously the other way for me. There's obviously, to me, no reason to play a character with a 14 in your primary stat. None at all. A character with a 10 in a primary stat, or...

Explaining why a swordmage wants high intelligence is fundamentally important. Explaining why a rogue wants a higher con than intelligence is not. You can't blanket it either way, and in the context of the OP, the 14 intelligence swordmage, explaining the folly is fundamentally important. If...

Your principles aren't faulty, but your application is. You're not teaching a man to fish, you're giving a man a fishing rod and saying "have fun." This man has only a vague idea of the goals of fishing, let alone the mechanics of the rod itself. Basically, learning through trial and error is...

I'm hoping that the next edition, or perhaps some kind of new book for 4E edition, has a good combination of both. For instance, a dragon monster book in my vision would have all 4E style combat stat-blocks for the easy to run encounters, and then something like an Special Abilities stat block...

I think a slightly better analogy would be if the entire cookbook specified on every meal how much seasoning to add, exactly, in teaspoons; EXCEPT for one recipe where it just says "Add Oregano." Yeah, you can use your common sense on this, put limits on it as some people have in this thread...

Good/bad DM assertions aside, forever, not mentioned again, what are these heavy roleplaying drawbacks? I recently started DMing Eberron and I haven't come across these drawbacks. One of my players has the mark of healing, so it is relevant. Thanks!

What if it's every player at the table? What if it's 12 instead of 14? 10 instead of 12? They still have their weapon proficiency, and the die roll itself. If they can scrape by after 15 rounds of combat because of tons of misses, but don't TPK, is it still okay? You seem to be implying that...

The biggest problem I have found is they tend to not get pregnant. How could they ever understand us?

Having played d&d almost exclusively with an all female group, the concept of a male gamer is somewhat foreign to me. In the dozen or so sessions I've played with male players, I've found that male gamers, by virtue of their gender alone, change the gameplay experience dramatically. Most of...

Is it accepted that you can even teleport things vertically? This power as it stands seems to assume that you can't, or else I'm fairly sure it would have been worded differently. Either way, it still causes wacky effects as far as casting it on a creature adjacent to a cliff and forcing the...

I'd say the next attack that hits the targets, so it's not 'wasted' by a monster missing and then its buddy attacking you.

My last characters have been a Seeker, a Paladin|Bard, Cleric|Fighter, Paladin|Warlock, Cleric|Warden, Rogue|Sorcerer, and a Warlord. Seeker is without a buddy because the hybrid rules haven't been released yet for them, sadly. I don't enjoy the Warlord. All of those builds have definitely been...

This... pleases me.