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I love your brain with every part of my body.

Amen. I want it to read like a textbook too.

I've long thought the inability of wizards to heal was exceptionally lame too. I want a rules reason in my rules, not a setting stipulation.

I haven't seen him, and all of my Toki traps are undisturbed. Maybe I should try baiting them. What would you bait a Toki trap with? Glowing purple people? Anime android girls? Disturbing flashbacks? Heroes DVDs? Pie?

Oddly enough, also Corellon.

Honestly, I know they were old PCs in Gary's game. But they've been living together for decades. Neither has a female associate. If they don't fit the profile for a long-term couple, then Corellon's got a beard bigger than Moradin's.

When I ran Hommlet in RttToEE, I made Rufus and Burne into a long-term couple. When the party figured out that more than just ordinary Elemental Evil was going on, one of them (I forget which) ended up comforting the other. My players all know that their DM is gay and they may encounter gay...

I would need an extremely good reason why no one has thought of such incredibly obvious magic items to buy that they wouldn't exist in the world. But then I adore the Christmas tree effect. I'd really prefer it stay.

Yes, but CR/EL does measure the magnitude of the fight avoided, which is what I'm really giving XP for. If it's a bit harder or easier than open combat, well them's the breaks. I don't begrudge the PCs a little bit of extra XP and they don't begrudge me an encounter that they just couldn't...

In default D&D, it seems to me, there are several assumptions that may not be shared by all players and DMs. 1) Morality is objective. That is to say not just that it's generally agreed-upon, but that certain issues are taken as moral or immoral on a cosmic level. Spells detect people who...

I give out the full XP award if the party circumvents an encounter through stealth, interaction, or some other reasonable means that include a fair countermeasure on the party of the enemy. So you don't get XP for everything you teleport past, since you had essentially no risk of encountering...

As long as one accepts CR for what it is, that is a measure of what level at which a party of four with standard gear will consume 20-25% of its resources in the defeat thereof, I think CR and EL are two of the best things in 3e. They're right up with no more racial level limits. CR and EL are...

Heh. I recall once an anthropology teacher I had mentioned a presentation he saw that wondered about how celibate monks ended up writing about some of the things they seemed to be writing about for their private use. Then he laughed and suggested that the presenter was very, naive.

Dude, I love you. *pokes Hong with a stick*

I'd say plenty D&D players probably don't suffer a character that does that with good humor either. If you're not in melee, a lot of players I've met over the years think you'd better be fireballing or healing.

Just like all of the rest of them. But I suppose the presence of high-level NPCs not negating the need for low-level adventurers who do important things is a topic for a different thread.

This sounds like a large step back into the world where adventurers exist in some weird bubble and society is incapable of adjusting to them...even though there must have been adventurers for as long as there's been civilization. Well, it's exactly the opposite of the way my tastes have ran...

Fewer options makes a game inherently less fun and less interesting to my play tastes, whichever side of the screen I'm on. So while I have concerns about 4e, I can't see me going back to any previous version of D&D.

Leaving aside that Monte's surely still got friends at WotC, didn't Monte tell us in his post on 3.5 that the 3e team built up a large list of things they would like to do but either seemed too far out (considering the huge 2e->3e changes already) or like they weren't quite ready for prime time...

I am of the opinion that "monster-only" or "NPC-only" abilities are pretty much inherently abusive anyway. They break the social compact of the game. It's fudging the dice in the monsters' favor by another name.