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Obviously, if a class is good at something, it will be picked by players who like to do that specific something. But it's not that clear-cut. Classes don't have exactly one audience, and most players try out a lot of very different classes over their gaming life. Some play their Rogues as...

Dragons. Magic Swords. Orcs. Chain Bikinis. Mountain Dew. Magic Missile. Dwarves. Elves. Crossbows. Rogues. Spellbooks. Treasure chests. Level Ups. Mold on Dungeon Walls. That NPC you never trusted in the first place. Rolling a One, and the whole group goes OWNED...

Or... maybe he just wanted to play some non-work-related D&D and that old box just caught his fancy. Mearls has talked about playing other older editions before. Or maybe I'm just not paranoid enough about the correct way to roll a d20.

That sounds like a very specific corner case. It sounds like you're asking for an indirect nerf of the Essentials Mage, because I can't think of another situation where this would come up. Here is a hint: Your player doesn't see the monster stat block. You can simply change a monster's basic...

Cool idea? Yes. Replacement for the Paladin? No. I think 3E had something like that with the Weapons of Legend sourcebook. I think it could be a theme, or simply a houseruled reskin. If you'd play a Paladin in my campaign, I'd definitely let you reflavor him like that (regardless of edition).

Are the players recent 3E converts? Because that would explain what is happening here. In 3E: multiclassing = good; melee combatant = deal hit point damage. Both expectations can be a trap in 4E. As for the Battlemind player, he's just in the wrong class. If he just wants to whack things for...

Races have favorite classes, and there are multiclassing XP penalties. All weapons do 1d6 damage. Flumphs. Random treasure tables. Spheres of Annihilation. Carry sulphur and bat guano to cast a fireball. Identifying an item takes 8 hours for no reason.

As long as all players have fun, you're fine. This situation would really only be a problem if you have some highly competitive players who get annoyed by this. As DM, you don't need to care at all. Just lower the encounter difficulty a bit, without telling your players. There is no law that...

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KarisDad:You claim that your view is "plausible", "D&D", "typical fantasy", but I suggest that you reread your Tolkien. Would the Fellowship have succeeded if they had shot Gollum on sight?

KarinsDad: So what your pile of posts in this thread boils down to is that you want Orcs to be evil to reserve your right to shoot them on sight? Because it's too much work as DM to give the PCs a reason to fight certain enemies? Just wow. I could handle if a PC has a deep-seated hatred of...

I also think that women have a lot less trouble with sexy depictions of women in fantasy art than is usually claimed on RPG boards. Hell, I met a female player who used a Luis Royo picture for her character. Maybe it's because women are used to seeing naked breasts, all they need is a mirror.

It's not that impressive if it's the only thing you can do. "Area at-will DPS" is the Elementalist's shtick. Sure, he's the best at it, or at least top-tier, but it's a niche that is not even useful in most combats. If you plink minions, you the extra damage doesn't make a difference. If the...

Just talking about PC level here is missing the point. A group that just discovered gaming can move from level 1 to level 30 in one, two years of play, and sure, they'll get a lot more experienced as players along the way. But that doesn't mean they have seen everything that there is in the...

Is your complaint about game rules or module design? Are you talking about improvising puzzles and challenges? Allowing players to come up with innovative ideas and rolling with it? Or are you talking about improvising plots, i.e. allowing them to march off the red thread of a published...

There is a huge problem with this, and that's analysis paralysis. If you have just the PHB, it's still ok, but if every little character customization ever is dumped into the feat system, you end up with thousands of feats spread around dozens of splatbooks and dragon articles and you never know...

This is very very similar to an idea I have posted on the WotC 5E boards: Adding combat style to race/class/theme It's what you wrote, except that I wouldn't call it "class", but combat style. It's more like a choice between different feat packages. And I want each style to work with different...

This thread reads like a self-help group for narrow-minded DMs of a Middle Earth RPG. Everything is bad unless it was written by Tolkien and approved by Gygax. Yawn. I never played a dwarf. I just know I won't be good at it because my personality isn't very "dwarven". In 15+ years, I played...

Daily abilities have the huge issue that playtime at the table != time in campaign. In a 4-hour session, you usually have at least one fight, because players are itching to roll some attacks. However, that fight could be a giant set-piece battle with a huge setup and dozens of enemies, or a...

The PF Magus is the "pathfinderized" Duskblade. The reason it has a different name is that WotC didn't put the Duskblade under d20 license / OGL. So if you like the Magus, just vote for the Duskblade above.