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If you're running a "Foreign Legion" game, I think you've got to work the Beau Geste scenario (under siege in a remote fort) in there somewhere.

I don't know about that. WotC's got a lot of space to fill if they're going to be releasing a new PHB, DMG, and MM every year. I'm guessing we'll get rules for sub-1st level PCs (and maybe some sub-1st level monsters to go with them) sooner or later. And until then, there's always 3e, or...

I hardly think the 3e monster design system can be described as "easy". Building a high level monster from scratch is a hell of a lot of work. I don't really think it's all that robust either, at least not in the way that matters most: CR versus actual power in combat. Building or modifying...

True, but you have to live with the extra complexity all the time, not just when you're doing something outside the design space. One big advantage that RPGs have over scientific modeling is that we've got a DM. So rather than carry all that complexity around when you don't need it most of the...

I never really thought of the 3e grapple rules as particularly fluffy. :D

Thanks. I don't really think black boxes are fluff though. They're just crunchy versus very crunchy.

I don't know if you've got the damage right. When characters make OAs, they have to use a basic melee attack (unless they have a power that specifically counts as a basic attack), so I don't know if the Rimehammer could use Maul for an OA. On the other hand, the entry doesn't list a basic...

I've been thinking about this for a while, and after Lizard's epiphany thread I decided to post about it. The "simulationist" label has gotten thrown around a lot in some of the recent arguments about 4e (the recent minion thread for instance). However, I don't think the simulationist label...

Not for those of us who don't play Warhammer it doesn't. ;)

Well that's all you could do with cleave in 3e. My guess is if Great Cleave is in 4e, it'll be a separate, higher level power.

Well, according to what we've seen so far, that's the way it works. Nothing in there says you have to drop the first enemy.

You know, this makes me wonder how much monster creation advice there will be in the DMG/MM. We'll certainly have plenty of examples to go off of, but will the books actually lay down some guidelines for some of these numbers? Something along the lines of, "An X level brute should have about...

Hallelujah! He has seen the light! :D That's pretty much how I'll be using it. My homebrew setting doesn't have any intelligent humanoid races (other than modified humans like lycanthropes and undead), outsiders, or intelligent magical beasts. That probably eliminates more than half the...

I don't know for sure, but my guess is it had to do with the fact that few people seem to play with the hit dice system as written. Rolling a 1 for your barbarian's hit points is just too painful. In the campaigns I've played, we've: :1: Taken the average value (rounded up) from the hit dice...

I doubt it. Wizards bought TSR lock stock and barrel in 1997. As far as I'm aware, they got all of TSR's assets. Wizards even published the 2e MM from 1997 until 3e came out in 2000. If they didn't have the rights to the art, they couldn't have done that.

Your first 4e product giving you sweaty hands? :)

The fighter gets a +1 bonus from his class, plus another +2 or +3 from proficiency, plus he's probably got weapon focus, so a fighter's probably going to hit at least 25% more than the Wizard. That doesn't even get into the fact that the fighters probably got lots of powers that let him do cool...

The recent Forgotten Realms thread got me wondering about what people planning to do as far as a campaign setting for 4e. Are you planning on buying a 4e setting from WotC or another publisher? Updating or rolling your own? Points of light?

The nerve of Ed Greenwood claiming he knows more about the Forgotten Realms than the fans! ;)

The strip is here. V: No, I understand. I'm simply saying that the architectural motifs found here in the city of Cliffport are inconsistent with the presumed medieval time period. Durkon: It could be magic. V: Yes, fine, I grasp the premise that any sufficiently advanced - and in particular...