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Well, eh. It does allow for a long round (five active actions!) in a worst-case scenario, but having three valid active minor actions to perform doesn't seem likely from what we've seen so far, and moving twice is... moving twice. Eh. Agreed. The only counterbalance to running is that you're...

In 3.5e, I tended to make my humanoid bosses under straight-up PC rules, occasionally with one or two special features. For example, one of the Evil Powered-Armor Wearing Drow bosses from a previous campaign used a Tentacle Rod as an off-hand weapon rather than a use-activated wondrous item. In...

I can tolerate the darkness and spiked chains, but making a race out of Penance should be a crime against humanity.

Probably the latter. WotC is a big fan of selling you not-content that no one ever uses. That's why Big Books of Prestige Classes include a writeup which includes useless passages on which races, classes, and alignments prefer a different class, usually written in a meaningless way that doesn't...

No, neither in D&D's alignment system nor my preferred alignment system. In my personal system, he would definitely not be able to be Good. Willingly doing overtly evil things, barring a grave mistake as to the nature of things you are doing, makes you evil. Even if you think what you're doing...

But that's ALSO a double word! Just, er, not intentionally...

I like the old alignment grid, but personally would be fine with a slight modification. Namely, I'd add "unaligned", which would become the default alignment for more or less everyone. Alignments themselves would become more extreme, and involve either innately being born into that alignment...

Hm, it'd certainly be possible (heck, probable) harm for the company if their books were leaked ahead of time, so I'd say it'd be morally questionable to download them... but practically speaking, unless the entire internet refused to look at the books, the cat's already out of the bag, and all...

This is sort of amusing, but generally not a problem for me, except in edge cases. The way I prefer to run things is that players can't just point to mechanics for what they're doing, however - they have to have a game-world description of their actions that makes some coherent sense. So I'd...

A rat is most definitely a valid target for your killing it with a sword, and because you're killing it with a sword, it's your enemy. I still don't think there's an actual exploit in this instance, because it usually comes up when the effect tied to "hit an enemy and..." is something much more...

This is true. However, a "bag of rats", at least as I've understood it, is a system-agnostic term for basically any container designed to hold creatures which are ostensibly hostile to you, in order to use powers that are marked as "only usable on opponents" or "only usable while in combat" when...

This is actually a general problem with exception-based rules: Exalted is one game that calls the issue out and addresses it specifically. Generally, conflicts resolve easily, except for when it's not at all obvious which exception is paramount. For instance... "This would deal fire damage...

Where's the option for "download them, but I wasn't going to buy them in the first place"? I picked #3, because I am going to buy the core books of 4e D&D, but that seems like a valid option that's missing. Almost all of my games are online, though, so that'd be enough to kick off a game, or at...

Mountain Folk, from Exalted: the Fair Folk, are Exalted's version of Dwarves. They're basically the "Lawful" version of Fair Folk.

I don't believe MapTool relies on an open license, because it relies on very obvious things from d20 only like "square grids with 1-2-1-2 movement" and "characters that can be 1x1, 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, or 5x5" in its default mode that would be... difficult to make a legitimate or even halfway...

Not automatically; the spell still has to hit the creature that put it up's Will defense. I, for one, almost like the new dispel magic, because it removes the issues that made the 3e version a horrible time sink. I am of the opinion that it should be able to target buffs like fly, mirror...

I don't care all that much if it's fully open. It... would bug me, but I think the only company that I've really liked the third-party work of that couldn't pay for a reasonably-priced license would be Dreamscarred Press, with their PDF psionics supplements, some of which (Untapped Potential and...

Like a cat.

Heck yeah. This sort of detail, especially in a world where food-creating magic or magic to help crops grow is already in the rules, really appeals to us. (On the other side of the equation, we get annoyed when the rules and fluff describe entirely different situations. "So you're saying my...

1) The core d20 system's conceits of most everything being a d20 roll and high numbers always being good. 2) The ability score generation rules. I'm a big fan of rolling for character creation, and glad it's still in the 4e rules, but I enjoy high stats, which 3d6 in order doesn't exactly give...