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"Damage reduction does not negate touch attacks" That pretty much means "no" the way I read it.

"Warhammer is the game where players start out thinking they are playing D&D but gradually learn they are playing Call of Cthulu."

Remember Krull? There was a scene very similar to what is being talked about. The weapon gets stuck and isn't strong enough to rip itself free.

Yup. They should mesh Move Silently and Hide into Stealth for one sneaky roll and Spot and Listen into Notice for one alertness roll. Also Disable Device and Open Lock together for one "take apart machine" roll. Sorry if I wasn't clear. I just disagree with all the people who think that...

I would certainly like some of these options to be considered for D&D4e. I like the idea of having the four iconic classes back again; warrior, mage, priest and rogue. Then have specially designed talent trees to allow people to build the sub varients like paladins, thieves (THIEVES), clerics...

And also for some it means not taking them regardless of the circumstances. "I must save these people" and "I shall not kill" are both perfectly valid lines of thought for a Good character and either one can take precedence depending on the person. Now the passive role of "I shall not kill"...

Yeah, the rage thing is nice enough. I've run a bunch of barbarians in previous games though and getting fatigued for on average about half the fight never really seemed to crimp their style. I can certainly see it being a concern for some people, but I think that lacking the penalty will lose...

My rough HR solve for the juggernaut is making it mandatory to finish the class. It is a transformative effort that demands dedication to see it through all the way. If you stop progressing in the transformation then your body falls back to normal and you lost all Juggy class abilities and...

Step one: ??? Step two: Xoriat becomes coterminous. Step three: Prophet! Screaming Ia Ia while the world burns in an orgy of chaos and madness that is... (( Oh, and Union sucks completely. No redeeming value. I'm sure that people get all nostalgic about Greyhawk City, but the thing is stale...

My definitions? An anti-hero is a protagonist without any heroic qualities. Belkar is my anti-hero. He is on my side, but that doesn't change the fact that he is an evil little bastard. He doesn't even appear to WANT to do good things. Malus Darkblade is another. Rincewind is a third...

That would be the magical rusting that he is talking about overcoming a resistance to normal rust. Rust monsters can also "rust" metals that have no iron or other corrodable materials so it clearly isn't "normal" by any stretch.

To loosely paraphrase CS Lewis, "There is no wicked act done in the name of Good that does not glorify Evil." Whatever the end results are, for weal or woe, the act itself will remain evil. The question is, how far up the list is such an act for a character? Unthinkably distant? Plausibly...

I'd call him evil. He is a very polite evil and I am sure he is very pleasant company if he isn't trying to kill you (not that you could tell...), but evil all the same.

A good character might use an evil means to a good end as a last desperate "My god, what have I done" measure. A neutral character might use an evil means to a good end when other options are ruled out and think "but at what cost, this victory?" An evil character aligned with a good goal...

That you give them swim penalties is a house ruling. It has been clarified multiple times by Keith Baker and WotC (cust service at least...) that warforged characters have no problem with swimming at all unless an armor body feat, STR penalty or encumbrance issue gives them a problem...

As much as I think that warforged characters are just fine as is, a couple flaws are in your reasoning here. Warforged have no problem swimming. Not a bit. It would say so in the rules if they did and aside from the armor check penalty of adamantine body and such feats they don't even suffer...

As a point of interest, a warforged is just as vulnerable to mummy rot as most characters. Oddly enough, a warforged is also vulnerable to a vampire's blood drain. I guess that whatever arcane fluids that are in a warforged's body are close enough to blood to count. It maybe an aquired taste...

I am toying with the idea of giving half orcs +1 to all ST checks and ST based skill checks and calling it "brutish frame" or something like that. It isn't quite a +2 to ST directly, but add to that the houseruling that you can use ST to Intimidate instead of CHA for acts of menacing brawn and...

Nobody has seen Rune Soldier Louie? I love that one. I think it is in the same basic universe as Slayers, but I find it to be alot less wantonly silly and more funny. Not to say that silly doesn't happen...

I was about to make a comment along the lines of "So you are saying ENworlders can't seperate dislike of flavor from a judgement of mechanics" but then I remembered that is exactly why I posited that setting races be excluded so that time wouldn't be wasted on FR/Eberron haters. Ah well. I'll...