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This, I think, is exactly the problem. Having a metasetting that people can use or discard is all well and good. Having it as a base assumption for WotC brand for creators to use when making up new material works fine too, as every DM would otherwise have to make everything up on their own if...

This post is great. I mean I disagree with the basic assumptions that go into it but it crystallizes a few things in my mind very well and so I thank you Klaus. So, in 4e, it goes from super-astral to astral to material to elemental and abyss. It goes from "pure creation" to "entropy" with some...

6421 that time :) lol. I dread how long mine is. Covered by Kobold Stew and Dausuul. Where is it a small percentage? What number do you define as small? A minority is probably the best thing you can say about it. A popular minority is probably what I would say about it. Either way, there is...

PF fan, yep, that's me. Fixes so many things, when I did 3.5 again I was constantly reminded how PF was doing a particular thing or another better than 3.5 and so I'll never go back if I can help it. I love the beginning of that AP. Sadly I haven't been able to run it myself but I've found a...

Sorry about the delay Majoru Oakheart, I had a busy few days between events with the family and attending doctors and I knew.. know? This post is going to be large. I replied with I think something like 3300 (new) words in my previous post and you did with 4958 (I quoted and removed the...

On the one hand, I liked when 4e combined the two as they do share some common traits. Making them two parts of the same general plane makes SOME sense. They both are transitive as you said. Having one be the shallow part and the other be the deep part of the same plane made sense in that...

Using the term "normal enough" vs "fantasy enough" are almost the same in this context. Plus you didn't answer my question. Humans are good, elves are good, dwarves are good. What about halflings, gnomes, orcs, kobolds, gnolls, goblins, hobgoblins, bugbears, ogres, giants, pixies, dragons...

You have to be careful reading into those kinds of stats. Another way of saying it might be "I might not use it, but I think it should be in the game" as 34% and then add it to the people who DO want it. Ultimately the best idea isn't to lump people into categories. Putting people who are...

From what I'm reading elves, dwarves, (and presumably) halflings, orcs, gnolls, etc. should all be PC races, because that is fantasy enough, but "monsters" aren't? Are they just that stretch just too far? Where do we draw that line? Elves are good, minotaurs bad. What about centaurs? Why are...

I know! None were satisfactory, at all. I think Pathfinder actually has my favourite solution so far, though I think it needs work. The remaining problems probably have to do with the CR system and backwards comparability. So, my ideal solution would resemble something like.. level adjustment...

In the first place isn't this the difference between 3e's Sorcerer and Wizard? I mean sorcerers have blasty goodness but a limited spell and wizards can have all the spells and pick? I mean, unless I've missed something, the problem is the higher level wizards, their versatility, and enchantment...

I've been wondering for a while. Is the problem more simplistic than that? Don't like the term dinosaurs .. why not dinos? Trice (pronounced however you want) instead of Triceratops. T-Rex (or Teerex) instead of Tyrannosaurus Rex. Isn't that more or less where you'd be if you took the Panthera...

A completely different problem. Not one we shouldn't look at, but not the problem here. If the person attempting to do this has evasion and evades the damage by moving out of the way and NOT with his reflex save and evasion then it is equally wrong. Not saying it doesn't make more sense, heck I...

Show me, quote the SRD, where this is true. Exactly what part says, for example, that you can wait until the fighter has charged the distance (moved but not yet attacked) then use your readied action THEN he cannot attack. As far as I'm reading it if you want to prepare against the charge, there...

Why am I not surprised. Preparing against a charge is covered in a section below what I quoted, it didn't seem appropriate concerning spells and thus I ignored it at the time. Beyond that the definition given at that time is that you set against the charge, not that you are avoiding the effect...

Too true. IRL a fireball's effects should knock people back because of the compression from the fireball. By 3e rules? I don't have those books. By 3.5 rules? So there is NO WAY to ready the action against "glowing light before fireball goes off" because that is part of it going off. Prepare...

It seems to be the mechanics that they are talking about here is less "downtime" and more "most of the time" the characters are doing a certain thing. They have goals and motives that are not related to risking their lives on a daily basis. All the best campaigns and DnD-adjacent stories I've...

It is fairly plain from where I'm sitting. If this "connect facebook" thing is in, then I'm out. No effin way am I connecting this account to facebook. You people don't know who Tovec is in the real world and I'm keeping it that way.

Doesn't address the problem. Where do they go? Also, if you have A-Z then you don't NEED to, you can just open to any random section of the book then ask yourself if you are before or after L and go from there; instead of having to go a table or index.

For reference: It looks like it doubles "wearer's arcane spells per day". So if the wearer has two (or more) pools of arcane spells then they should all be doubled. If they have multiclassed in such a way that this is true then be glad they don't get access to the higher spells and don't have...