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I agree that most casters would tend to cast support spells instead of direct damage. I think the ability of a caster to use a gust of wind to negate some ranged fire would be better then destroying them. They'd be better with a few well timed fog clouds, gusts of wind, dispel magic...

1. Fighter - kick butt, take names style - could be pally or barbarian 2. Fighter - reach out and touch someone, composite Longbow style 3. Cleric - High str, moderate wis. Backup fighter. War domain ideal. 4. Wizard or Sorceror 5. Rogue - something sneaky who's good with sneak attack...

Here is a good example of a camo cloak, it's what I envision someone looking like when wearing a cloak of elvenkind. http://realtree.com/people/images/1115.jpg A camo cloak is completely effective in the woods, not so much in snow. Elvenkind I imagine to change to it's surroundings.

Well, camo cloaks would provide circumstance. Skill focus is probably competence.

At some point there will be a huge battle involving lots of epic spells, etc. Most of the action will be spent leading up to this epic battle. Where is the enemies wizards o' death and where are mine, etc. I think softening up the enemy with small assults over a long period of time will be...

Some would be extremely hard, like listen's. I don't really see masterwork earpeices happening except by magic. How about some eyeglasses of magnification, great for searching for traps or whatnot, but hard to see at distanances. +4 search, -2 spot? Those would work. Spyglasses (think...

Well, Neverwinter is in the computer stores. That says D&D. I think it's raising in popularity, I started playing about two years ago. I've gotten a good 10 friends playing, and one of those 10 started his own group and has 5 more playing. That's 16 new players in 2 years because some guy...

I'd want a new world type where you could be Jim Bowe, Davey Crocket, Danial Boone, etc except with swords and spells. Explore new lands, meet new groups of people, etc.

Only exp20/bard20, that's the only way it's fair and balanced. Otherwise DM's might have to use tactics to defeat players.

You can play a no magic items campaign just fine, but don't even begin to tell me it's balanced. A fighter without magic items is incredibly weak compared to a Wizard without. To any of you who say no magic items is fine, do any of you play the Fighter? Or are you all Clerics, Wizards, and...

Okay, I made a good comparison to how much the Wand of Fireballs is compared to the US military and nobody has any responses. I need feedback here people!!

Was it an Elf named Machiavellileaf? You probably should attribute the quote to him.

Well, when you start stacking one rule 0 on top of another to balance a system that was already balanced these things happen frequently. My friend plays in a group where he lives and he complains about his DM not knowing the rules and always introducing rule 0's to balance things that were...

I find the best solution is to make them mean something (anything worth a significant amount should be RP'd out to find). The treasure values should remain equal to the DMG, but that doesn't mean that there are shops with "everything" available.

I have (actually I HAD them, they died now) a group of magic hating NPC's (Sentinals of the True Way in Kalamar) who tried to kill a few wizards. Anyways, part of the adventure was with some Rangers (no spells) who were sneaking up on the PC's. I gave them camoflage cloaks that added +4...

If you're talking about balance in the NPC vs PC realm it's perfectly plausible to do. I can give one 6th level PC a masterwork greatsword, and the other a Holy Avenger and still have a balanced encounter, but the two PC's won't be balanced against each other. In another thread someone made...

I guess this also means that high level PC's are walking around with the GDP of small countries... A bit silly. But if Dragons have 1000 years worth of tribute I guess it's probably only fair. Imagine a world with stealth bombers owned by citizens, and lesser technology owned by the gov't...

I completely agree. It's why I don't play any living campaigns. If my fighter can't even use alchemist fires and fly potions that's silly. In a world with no magic items fighters are hopelessly lost, no way to see invisible, no way to fly, etc.

Lets figure we have 500,000 commoners in this fake country making 1sp per day, and 50,000 artisans making 1gp per day. Arbitrary figure, but we'll use it as an easy to figure base point. That's 100,000gp per day in this imaginary country. If they work 6 days a week 52 weeks a year that's 312...

In my game there would be a lot more cooperative spellcasting to do things to affect the area. IE, get 12 lower level wizards together to cause a huge area to swell up with fog for a few days (The wizards would concentrate on this). The enemy wizards would then focus their arts on dispelling...