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It is a matter of taste, sure. I powerfully loathe the frontier holds/kingdom/keep on the borderlands trope. It's boring. We must all have done it dozens, if not hundreds, of times in our years gaming. It's a dual-wielding good-aligned drow and a wizard with a big pointy hat. I realized sometime...

The 4e news has been very mixed for me from the beginning. I was a bit upset at the news, but was willing to be cautiously optimistic until I heard about "streamlining". 3.5 is at the just right level of complexity for me and I really, really dislike rules light games. Early promises that this...

I adore the bonus stacking rules and hope they remain utterly untouched. The removal of named penalties in 3.5 was a step backwards.

I'm very generous with magic items in my games. Enemies have them all the time, and the players get to use most of 'em. They can sell the rest and buy or craft whatever they like, provided they can afford it and they're not passing off some nasty exploit under the table. I still don't see PCs...

This is the first bit of 4e news in about two weeks that I don't utterly hate, and it transpires that I'm not just neutral but actually approve. About time.

A vorpal necklace.

I not only want the gods to have stats, I want them to have 4e's equivalent to CRs. I want to be able to slap divine ranks on something and use it as a monster if that's the way things go. Gods can die and be killed. The deities in my worlds are polytheistic mortals writ large, not ineffable...

Well that's a different animal entirely. If the DM creates a villain with a save or die where the save is truly just a formality, I would count that as close enough to a literal assassination-by-DM to object to it. About the only circumstance I can see where I might swing otherwise is if the PC...

At the risk of being caught in an inflammatory agenda... I have no idea what goes on at rpg.net. I don't go there. The difference is that an extremely unlucky die roll doesn't make the statement that the DM just chose to kill you out of nowhere, and you have no recourse. When the bad guys make...

The Night Below boxed set had a freshwater variant called the Ixan. If I ever have to say it aloud, that's what I'm saying.

I consider adventuring itself generally poor judgment, but that said I have objections to C and D. C is always wrong. It's the DM being a jerk. "Poof! You're dead! No roll! Ha!" So far as D goes, I would not plan an adventure with the notion that a PC must die here or else. If a player comes to...

I don't know. I've read about parties that take major anti-scrying measures. I think it would be funny if they spotted the scrying sensor and mooned it, but this isn't that kind of party. Even if I did have Tessimon geld the paladin. I think partly my players expect that whatever they do...

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=204434 SKR summed up my feelings on the matter over on Monte's boards:

Or a simple declaration that monsters of X level below the party don't drop any XP at all. Which would probably lead to a few less explosive flamewars about how the designers are "telling us what monsters we're allowed to use". Just a few though, internet being what it is. :)

Close. The current head bad guy has been scrying them fairly often. They notice it sometimes, but don't seem to worry too much. He's even watched major battles.

Off the top of my head, I'd say it was to fix the problem with fixed XP where a horde of inferior foes could give vastly more XP than was proper for any challenge they posed the party, and also put the cap on the possibility of a lucky party killing something quite beyond them and getting enough...

Not in my games. If we can agree on a sensible LA and the game can handle it without being unfair to other PCs, you can play pretty much anything. This does tend to limit things like dragon PCs in most games, but if I were running a 20+ game I would be more open to the idea. A feat that the...

The settlement demographics in the DMG work out to about 1% of the population having levels in a PC class in large and small settlements, with a bit of a bulge in mid-sized populations. About half of those are first level. That works for me, but I'm also very comfortable with the notion that...

They don't have any of those spells. The wizard doesn't know permanency. I'm not sure he knows see invisible. :)

I think it's entirely reasonable for players to viscerally hate NPCs that break the rules in the ways that PCs would never be allowed to do. As a matter of fact, I think it's to be expected. The entire practice reeks of DM cheating. The DM gets to use all the toys the players get, but he also...