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Uh-oh, the PF brigade is here. Read the definition of Railroading. It doesn't refer to abilities on your character sheet. Interesting question. <grabs pile of charsheet> 3E: Official Living Greyhawk sheet. 7.5 cm x 19 cm PF: 8.5 x 18 cm 4E: 6 cm x 9 cm OMG you're right... Or wait... 4E needs...

I tried a skill challenge at the very start, but then it didn't make enough difference from my previous 10 years of "players decide and narrate their actions and you call for a skill check when success is in question". The game worked fine without them for the next 4 years. Really, I never...

Kamikaze Midget: That's mostly due to personal blogs and the ability to google. If you want to know what Gary Gygax thought about marshmallow flakes in cocoa, you'll probably find a comment by him somewhere online. Of course, this has the advantage / disadvantage that it's easy to prove you...

e) (a personal favorite) XY is overpowered!!! Important! 1. State how damage output of X has totally changed and is overpowered now. Completely ignore that monsters of that level now have +50% hp. Ignore that X was generally considered weak in the previous edition. Ignore that Y has been...

Electrum!? You play the wrong edition! I don't want XP from you! :P

It's unavoidable that 5E will be at the center of a new edition war. There simply is nothing that can put an entire RPG fan community up in arms like a new edition of the game. So what will the 5E edition war look like? Open the floodgates! The main purpose of this thread is to have a nice list...

Amen to that. I'm shocked how easily a lot of DMs advocate the ban-hammer, at least online. I always scratch my head when someone bans, say, the sorcerer, without even checking whether any of his players wanted to play one in the first place. And even if, not checking either whether the...

Unearthed Arcana had this: Armor As Damage Reduction :: d20srd.org I've learned my RPG ropes on the German "Das Schwarze Auge", which also uses armor as DR. It works, but it runs into heavy scaling issues. If you have rapidly scaling damage with level, like D&D does, you have to make sure...

Kaodi: I ... er ... ah ... well ... ok, I simply don't get what your point is. All I can say is "yeah, so what".

* Quote the exact point in my post where I write that this is connected to Shadowrun or any other specific RPG * DMing makes you better at DMing.

I can't believe that after 4 years, it's still necessary to explain marks and the difference to WOW aggro mechanics to people. Was that a cozy rock you were hiding under? So for the 100th time: Aggro: Monster dumb. Monster played by AI that doesn't want to waste computation cycle. Monster...

"Fighter most popular" is not a universal truth. Let's check iPlay4E, which is representative of the 4E PbE/online community... Fighter 122 Wizard 123 Rogue 88 Cleric 125 Swordmage 146 (!) Battlemind 137 Warlord 136 Avenger 125 Barbarian 139 mmh...

Yeah, but the sale goes to the publisher who made the module, not the one who made the system you convert it to... Of course, WotC did this to themselves. Paizo would probably be happy to make 4E/PF dual-system modules. WotC doesn't let them. *facepalm* ... As for whether Pathfinder is a good...

For me, it's mostly minor stuff that just feels wrong. For example, that shields and bracers are one magic item category. WTF? Makes no sense whatsoever. Why doesn't 4E have a shield / off-hand slot? I also found "neck slot items give fort/ref/will" somewhat contrived. Why not have belts of...

The PCs wake up in the morning, after a merry but uneventful night in a tavern. As they enter the common room, they notice that everyone, absolutely everyone in town is wearing a purple hat. Even the old bald dwarven barkeep, even the tavern cat, even their own horses! The hats are of different...

Meh. The true solution to this is Players Roll All the Dice. It's a D20 option, but neither PF nor 4E use it. Touch and Flatfooted AC aren't bad as such. They simulate "attacks that bypass armor" and "being unable to dodge". As concepts, they are fine. The problem is rather that spellcasters...

Enworld has this: EN World: Your Daily RPG Magazine: Your Daily RPG Magazine But it's not enough to build a campaign, or even an inofficial playtest session on. Frankly, it's not even publicly known how far 5E is evolved within WotC. And it's impossible to say whether even the current version...

Tried the item out today! They found it as described by Loonook. They got the meaning immediately, but they were too scared to try it out themselves. So they wrote "generosity" and fed the potion to their employer (who promptly doubled pay). They also gave him a copy of the thing and kept the...

Yeah. * how to keep the party rogue from taking more than his share (especially after loot was distributed) * spotting when the Paladin is secretly worshipping Baal * how to blame it all on the dwarf in front of the king Essential skills. My defining moment was when we had a group project and...

I'm only semi-joking. Being a long-term gamer does give you skills that are very similar to things they try to teach you at business school. Take presentation skills. If you can sit down with a DM screen and some notes and create a shared world in people's mind, you can hold a team...